Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The 'list' column refers to the biennial Honours List in which the appointment was made; B is for the Queen's Birthday Honours List, celebrating the Queen's official birthday in early June, and N is for the New Year's Honours List, normally released in the last days of the calendar year.
Comptroller to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Sir David Lumden Webster: 13 June 1970 General Administrator, Royal Opera House Hon. Margaret Katherine Hay, CVO 1 January 1971 Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother The Very Rev. Robert Wilmer Woods: 1 January 1971 Dean of Windsor Hon. Olivia Vernon Mulholland, CVO 12 June 1971
The 30-year-old royal was knighted by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, on Thursday, a gift recognizing his service to the royal family. He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal.
One of the most prestigious accolades that a British native can receive is a damehood or a knighthood from a member of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II, her children and her grandchildren are ...
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 ...
American royalty may refer to American citizens who are members of royal families, through birth, naturalization or marriage; or American dynastic families that are given the epithet or moniker as American royalty.
Elizabeth Beers-Curtis, by marriage (Second French Empire) Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, by marriage (United Kingdom) Henry Hathaway, by birth as Henri Léopold, Marquis de Fiennes (Kingdom of Belgium) Francis Augustus MacNutt, ennobled (Holy See) Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès, by marriage (Kingdom of Sardinia)