LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Britain recognised Queen guitarist Brian Might, a number of English “Lionesses” who gained the European girls’s soccer championship and diplomats concerned within the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in King Charles’ first New 12 months’s honours record.
4 members of the England girls’s soccer crew obtained honours, with captain Leah Williamson awarded an OBE, whereas the event’s golden boot winner Beth Mead, defender Lucy Bronze and all-time prime scorer Ellen White obtained MBEs.
The crew’s coach, Dutch nationwide Sarina Wiegman, obtained an honorary CBE – a sort of award given to overseas nationals.
Might, a founder member of rock band Queen, was knighted on the finish of a yr by which he opened Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee live performance atop the Victoria Monument – 20 years after he carried out on prime of Buckingham Palace on the Golden Jubilee.
Queen Elizabeth died in September, making the New 12 months’s honours the primary to be awarded by King Charles since he got here to the throne. The record is drawn up by impartial committees, earlier than it’s authorised by the prime minister and the monarch.
Melinda Simmons and Deborah Bronnert, Britain’s ambassadors to Kyiv and Moscow respectively, each obtained damehoods for his or her providers to overseas coverage, with different officers who labored on Britain’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine additionally honoured.
The chair of the COP26 local weather convention, Alok Sharma, was awarded a knighthood, as had been former civil servants Mark Sedwill and Tom Scholar, who had been ousted from high-profile roles through the tenures of former Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, respectively.
Denise Lewis, an Olympic champion who gained gold within the heptathlon the Sydney 2000 video games, was made a dame, whereas dressmaker Mary Quant and artist Grayson Perry had been additionally honoured.
NatWest Chief Govt Alison Rose, the primary feminine CEO of a serious British Financial institution, was awarded a damehood, as was Anita Frew, the primary feminine chair of aerospace agency Rolls Royce.
The New 12 months’s honours have been awarded since Queen Victoria’s reign within the nineteenth century and intention to recognise not simply well-known figures however individuals who have contributed to nationwide life by usually unsung work over a few years.
OBE is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, the MBE a Member of the Order of the British Empire and the CBE a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Reporting by Alistair Smout; Enhancing by Nick Macfie
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