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Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) The senior two ranks of Knight or Dame Grand Cross and Knight or Dame Commander entitle their members to use the titles Sir for men and Dame for women before their forenames, except with honorary awards. [6]
Officer (OBE) Member (MBE) 4 June 1917 King George V 'For God and the Empire' Miscellaneous (military and civil). The Sovereign makes all appointments to the Order on the advice of the Government. British Empire Medal [17] Order of the Companions of Honour: Member (CH) 4 June 1917 King George V 'In action faithful and in honour clear'
After a 1993 review of the British honours system, the government decided that the distinction between the BEM and MBE had "become increasingly tenuous" and the Prime Minister, John Major, ended the award of the BEM [9] to British subjects, although the medal continued to be awarded in some Commonwealth realms, such as the Bahamas and the Cook ...
Queen Victoria in 1897, the year after she founded the Royal Victorian Order. Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies (appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry, the Order of ...
She has been recognised in the Honours list twice before, after she was appointed an MBE in 2013 and OBE in 2017. Luke Pollard, from Telford, the sighted guide of Para-triathlete David Ellis, has ...
Position On envelopes Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King: Your Majesty: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Sir" (or the archaic "Sire") Queen: HM The Queen: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Ma'am"
Campaigners throughout the West of England are named in His Majesty the King's New Years Honours List.
The following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of February 2025. Separate orders exist for men and women.. Names in italics indicate that these people rank elsewhere—either higher in that table of precedence or in the table for the other sex.