Royal News
Wednesday 25 September 2024
His Majesty the King Revokes Honours
Ms Paula Anne Vennells to be stripped of an CBE awarded on 29th December 2018.
Mr Hugh Richard Vaughan Morgan-Williams to be stripped of an OBE awarded on 14th June 2008.
Mr Richard Cowie to be stripped of an MBE awarded on 30th December 2017.
New Member of the United Kingdom Privy Council
On the 9th February 2024, His Majesty the King approved the following person member of Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council.
Mr Michael Tomlinson KC MP
New Lord-Lieutenant of Shetland
2024 Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Wednesday 19 June 2024
New Aide-de-Camp to the King
Tuesday 26 March 2024
New Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
Ms Virginia Anne Burnett DL
GCMG for the New Governor-General of The Bahamas
New Deputy Lieutenants of Hertfordshire
Mr Mark Bretton MBE TD
Mr Adam K Ginder
Ms Margaret Elizabeth Green MStJ
Mr Dawid Konotey-Ahulu CBE
Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton KCVO CBE
Mr Luke Thomas Rigg MBE JP
Dr Deborah Mary Taverner
Monday 25 March 2024
New Deputy Lieutenant of Sutherland
Major General Patrick Marriott CB CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherland has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Sutherland.
Mr David MacAskill
New Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire
Sarah Troughton, Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire.
Mr Mohammed Makram Ali
Mrs Rachel Gowshall JP
Mrs Josephine Del Mar
The Very Reverend Nicholas Papadopulos
General Sir Nick Parker KCB CBE
New Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire
Elizabeth Fothergill CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire.
Dr Helen Mary Phillips
Miss Theresa Maria Peltier
New Deputy Lieutenant of County Antrim
David McCorkell, Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of County Antrim.
Mrs Jacqueline Dixon MBE
High Sheriffs of Northern Ireland for 2024/2025
Northern Ireland
For County Antrim
2024/2025: Mrs Patricia Elizabeth Perry
For County Armagh
2024/2025: Mr Michael Alexander Curran
For County Down
2024/2025: Ms Suzanne Carol Wild
For County Fermanagh
2024/2025: Mr Norman Joseph Coalter
For County Londonderry
2024/2025: Miss Linda Jane Steele
For County Tyrone
2024/2025: Mr John David William Moore
For County Borough of Belfast
2024/2025: Councillor Samuel Douglas MBE
For County Borough of Londonderry
2024/2025: The Venerable Robert Stephen Miller MStJ
New King of Denmark
Her son Crown Prince Frederik assumed the throne as His Majesty King Frederik X. Crown Princess Mary is now styled Queen of Denmark and Prince Christian is now Crown Prince of Denmark. The former Queen will now be styled Her Majesty Queen Margrethe.
Sunday 17 March 2024
A Baby boy for Prince Félix and Princess Claire of Luxembourg
New Year Honour List 2024 appointments to the Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
The Right Honourable and the Most Reverend Justin Portal Welby
Colonel Edward Thomas Bolitho OBE
The Very Reverend Dr David Michael Hoyle MBE
Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)
Ms Rowena Jane Feilden CVO
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Mr Ian Angus Campbell
Ms Sophia Louisa Densham LVO
Mr Patric Laurence Dickinson LVO
Dr Veronica Mary Geneste Ferguson LVO
Mr Alastair Gilbert Martin
The Right Honourable The Lord Offord of Garvel
Sir Antonio Pappano
Professor James Roy Robertson LVO MBE
Mr Ian Scott Anderson MVO
Mr Mark Appleby
Colonel Jeremy David Bagshaw CBE
Major Grant Vincent Ashley Baker
Mr Paul David Baumann CBE
Mr Charles Harcourt James Davies MVO
Ms Karen Ross Findlay
Dr Michael Terence Isaac
Air Vice-Marshal Richard Howard Lacey CBE
Ms Charlotte Elizabeth Martin MVO
Mr Jonathan David Rogerson Martin
Mr Ian Donald McCowan
Professor Paul Mealor
Mr Graham Paul Midgley
Mr Gavin Donald Reid
Mr Paul John Sedgwick
Lieutenant Colonel James Edward Noel Bridgeman Shaw
Mr Nicholas Kester Smith
Mr David William Courtenay Whelton OBE
Mr James Wyndham Williams
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
Mr Russell Adams RVM
Captain Andrew Mark Aspden
Mr Ian Charles Bartlett
Mr Nicholas John Birch
Mr Ian Leslie Bullock RVM
Ms Emma Jane Clarke
Ms Nicola Charlotte Craig
Mr Andrew John Cranidge
Ms Anne Maria Curran
Ms Sarah Louise Davis
Ms Julie Elizabeth Denby
Mr Michael Robert Duncan
Ms Hannah Elizabeth Evans
Mr David Irwin Foy
Mr Christopher William Andrew Hallworth
Ms Stephanie Kate Howard
Ms Adelaide Georgina Gray Izat
Mr Daniel James Kevin Johnson
Mr Kevin Malkin
Ms Louise Michelle Walker-Pickett
Ms Nicola Jane Pritchard
Warrant Officer Class 1 David Alexander Roper
Warrant Officer Class 2 Julian Philip Desmond Sandford
Mr Christopher Charles Savage
Mr Derrick Andrew Scott
Mr Thomas Nicholas McKinlay Service
Ms Elizabeth Fiona St Clair
Ms Kathryn Elizabeth Stone
Mr Paul Stonell
Mr Christopher Tombling
Ms Karen Louise Willemsen
Mr Gary William Adams RVM
Mr Andrew John Buckland RVM
Mr Neil Hepple Dodds RVM
Mr Jose Manuel Lazarczuk RVM
Mr Andrew David Basson
Mr Gary Clarke
Mr Edward Peter Evans
Mr Malcolm Greenland
Ms Helen Hitchcock
Ms Isabel Lorna Laylo
Mr Matthew Simon Murphy
Mr Timothy James Rayson
Ms Elisabeth Michelle Roberts
Corporal of the Horse Kate Elizabeth Sandford
Mr James Richard Shaw
Ms Fiona Ailsa Smith
Mr John Spelzini
Ms Monica Jane Tandy
Ms Vanessa Anne Wakeford
Mr Barry James Whearty
Mr Jorge Manuel Martins Fernandes José
Sunday 18 February 2024
New Year’s Honours 2024
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE
Knight Bachelor (Sir)
Mr Michael Eavis CBE
The Right Honourable Sajid Javid MP
Mr Tim Martin
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE)
Sir Ridley Scott
Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE)
The Right Honourable Dame Margaret Beckett DBE MP
Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Ms Siobhain McDonagh MP
Ms Felicity Dahl
Ms Jilly Cooper CBE
The Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon
Mr Rob Burrow
Mr Kevin Sinfield
Mr Stuart Broad
Mr Peter Shilton OBE
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Ms Leona Lewis
Ms Millie Bright
Mr Tony Blackburn
Ms Mary Portas
Mr Mark Garnier MP
Ms Maggie Throup MP
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Miss Emilia Clarke
Miss Anna Lapwood
Ms Lauren Hemp
Ms Mary Earps
Mr Paul Hollywood
Mr Steve Wright
Monday 12 February 2024
The Count and Countess of Paris have a baby Boy
Prince Jean, Count of Paris is Head of the House of Orléans and claimant to the defunct Throne of France, Inheriting the role from his father in 2019.The couple married in 2009 and now have three boys and three girls.
Monday 29 January 2024
New Privy Councillors of the United Kingdom
Mr Richard Holden MP
Ms Laura Trott MP