Queen's Birthday Honours 2017

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Queen's Birthday Honours 2017 (UK)

- Knighthoods and Damehoods awarded to famous faces including Billy Connolly and Julie Walters
- JK Rowling, , Delia Smith and Sir Paul MacCartney to receive a Companion of Honour
- Ed Sheernan and Emeli Sande to receive Order's of the British Empire (MBEs)

Sir Billy Connolly! Glasgow's favourite son has been given a knighthood. More: https://t.co/Xx6jFoAjDO pic.twitter.com/DTNc4A9kwv

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) June 16, 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ey-delia-smith

Arise Sir Billy Connolly: the famously foul-mouthed and anarchic comedian Billy Connolly, whose 75th year has already been marked with towering gable-end mural portraits in his native Glasgow, has been knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

Connolly has in the past been teased and even heckled for his friendship with members of the royal family, including Prince Charles, but once said: “I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.”

The comedian and actor is honoured for his services to entertainment and charity, and his knighthood will join a list of other awards he has earned over his career.

Joining Connolly on the honours list are Sir Paul McCartney, knighted 20 years ago, who now becomes a companion of honour – an honour created in 1917 that can have no more than 65 members, so vacancies only arise on the death of a holder – along with the author JK Rowling, the designer Sir Terence Conran, chef Delia Smith and the scientist Sir John Sulston, who is a pioneer of human genome mapping.

Half a century after the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – now being celebrated in a festival across their native Liverpool – McCartney was jubilant. He said: “I’m very happy about this huge honour, and with the news coming on my birthday weekend and Father’s Day, it makes it colossal!”

Rowling said she was “deeply proud and honoured”, and Smith said the honour belonged to all who had encouraged her career “from day one”. Conran’s office said he was so excited about the honour they had great difficulty persuading him to keep quiet about it until the announcement.

The singers Ed Sheeran, who recently saw all 16 tracks from his new album take over the Top 20 chart, and Emeli Sandé, who sang in both the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Olympics, are both awarded MBEs.

The honours committee said that Prime Minister Theresa May had elected not to offer any opinion on the list this year, because of the general election. Instead it was simply forwarded through her office to the Queen.

Congratulations to Olivia De Haviland who has been awarded a Damehood in the #BirthdayHonours. Oldest recipient ever at nearly 101? pic.twitter.com/kxUPwmbnWp

— George Morrall (@GeorgeMorrall) June 16, 2017

A well deserved Damehood for the marvellous Julie Walters. A shame Victoria Wood is not alive to be honoured with her. #BirthdayHonours pic.twitter.com/GGQ6QR1JkS

— George Morrall (@GeorgeMorrall) June 16, 2017

Who would have thought, when he first started out, that he would one day be Sir Billy Connolly? #BirthdayHonours pic.twitter.com/dXh3IOSIJP

— George Morrall (@GeorgeMorrall) June 16, 2017

A Damehood for the witty and wonderful, June Whitfield. She just keeps on carrying on! Well deserved. #BirthdayHonours pic.twitter.com/bPMu9ezudo

— George Morrall (@GeorgeMorrall) June 16, 2017

An MBE for the last surviving Dambuster, George Johnson. Perhaps deserving of a bit more?#BirthdayHonours pic.twitter.com/5kTRrseN0z

— George Morrall (@GeorgeMorrall) June 16, 2017

Well done all.

Most of the honours handed out go to normal people, these are just the most famous faces. Other Commonwealth realms have their own Queen's Birthday Honours but this is just the British list.

Thoughts?

[Neversoft]

A TRAVESTY — STILL NO KNIGHTHOOD FOR BRIAN

[lemons]

ed sheeran -.-

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@Neversoft;

He'll likely have to wait a few more years.

Was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2016, next step would be a knighthood though!

[FlyingJesus]

God damnit I still haven't been made a Baron, that's all I want in life

[Stephen]

And all George Johnson gets is an MBE

booooo

[lawrawrrr]

nice touch giving Keith Palmer a posthumous medal for bravery! Noticed a couple people from Wales from when I worked on the paper that deserve it too so that's cooooool ;D much prefer "real" people getting these than celebs tbh

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Official ceremony took place other day.

A few pictures below of some of the new Knights/Dames and Commanders/Members of the Order of the British Empire.

Congratulations to Billy Connolly who today received a Knighthood from The Duke of Cambridge for his services to entertainment & charity. pic.twitter.com/8ZVK5pChKK

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 31, 2017

Sir Billy Connolly on not getting a laugh out of Prince William - and his worry he wouldn't be able to get back up after being knighted pic.twitter.com/whNH3HeBZ7

— ITV News (@itvnews) October 31, 2017

Robin Rush, who has been raising funds for numerous charities over the last 40 years, is awarded his #MBE from The Duke of Cambridge. pic.twitter.com/oyYihWUILV

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 31, 2017

The Duke of Cambridge awards Suzanne Hudson, Chief Executive of @BipolarUK, a #MBE for her services to people affected by bipolar disorder. pic.twitter.com/abUdAzXYlh

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) October 31, 2017

[Flakefish]

**** the queen and the royal family

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no knighthood for you then