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This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian: 2014 [5] Laurent Fabius: KCMG: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France: 2014 [5] Laurent Stefanini: KCMG: Former Ambassador, Chief of Protocol to President Hollande: 2014 [5] Grace Fu: DCMG: Former Second Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore: 2014 [5] Anders Fogh Rasmussen: KCMG
Many people have been created honorary knights or dames by the British crown.There are also those that have been appointed to two comparable orders, the Order of Merit and the Order of the Companions of Honour, and those that have had conferred on them the decoration of the Royal Victorian Chain; none of these carries pre-nominal styles.
Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning ...
In the United Kingdom, knighthoods are a way for the sovereign to recognize service or merit.. In the United States, we gave up on knighting people after the Revolutionary War (although a few ...
Actor Stephen Fry, former England manager Gareth Southgate and London mayor Sadiq Khan have been knighted in the New Year Honours. Honours have gone to a host of Team GB athletes, including runner ...
This category comprises male actors or performers who have been knighted (either Knight Bachelor or Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), including honorary knighthoods (i.e. Fairbanks, Hope, Milligan).
Few Pontifical titles, other than personal nobility obtained by individual appointment into the several Pontifical equestrian orders, have been granted since the election of Pope John XXIII in 1958. In 1968, Paul VI reformed the papal court via the apostolic letter Pontificalis Domus , which reorganized the court into the Pontifical Household .