Her Majesty the Queen Revokes Honours

Her Majesty The Queen has decreed that the following persons shall have their Honour cancelled, annulled and their name shall be erased from the Register of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Mr Ashuk Ahmed to be stripped of an MBE awarded on 13th June 2009.

Mr John Anthony Coatman to be stripped of an MBE awarded on 31st December 2011.

Mr Ian Strong to be stripped of an MBE awarded on 14th June 1997.

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire

Jeanna Swan, Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire.

Mr Henry Forrest Frew DL

New Member of the United Kingdom Privy Council

Her Majesty the Queen approved the following person member of Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council.

Ms Elizabeth Saville Roberts MP

New Deputy Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire

Julie Spence OBE QPM, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire.

Mr Iain Forsythe
Mrs Susan Freestone
Dr Andrew Harter CBE
Mr Karim Khalil QC
Colonel Mark Knight MBE
The Honourable Mrs Frances Stanley

Former Private Secretary to the Queen made a Permanent Lord in Waiting

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed The Rt Hon. the Lord Geidt GCB GCVO OBE QSO the former Private Secretary to the Queen to the position of Permanent Lord in Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen.

A Lord in Waiting is someone who helps the Sovereign with various duties a notably one being meeting visiting foreign heads of state as they arrived into the UK.

MVO for Practice Nurse and Manager at Buckingham Palace

Mrs Dorothy Mawdsley has been appointed Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for her service as Practice Nurse and Manager at the Buckingham Palace Surgery.

Two New Members of the Order of the Garter

Today Her Majesty the Queen has appointed two new members of the The Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG/LG) they are as follows:

Dame Mary Elizabeth Peters CH DBE
The Most Hon The Marquess of Salisbury KCVO PC DL

New Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh

The Earl of Caledon KCVO, Lord-Lieutenant of County Armagh has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh.

Mr Terence David Walkingshaw

New Deputy Lieutenant of Berwickshire

Jeanna Swan, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Berwickshire.

Mr Timothy Culham

Master Horatio Hicks (Born February 12th 2019) son of Mr Ashley Hicks and Mrs Katalina Hicks

Horatio Valentine Christopher Alessandro Hicks was born on the 12th February 2019, the son of Mr Ashley Hicks and Mrs Katalina Hicks, Mr Ashley Hicks is the only son of Lady Pamela Hicks née Mountbatten, the younger daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and her husband Mr David Nightingale Hicks, Horatio is Lady Pamela Hicks’s eleventh grandchild. Horatio like his father is distantly in the line of succession to the British throne.

Mr and Mrs Hicks separated while Mrs Hicks was pregnant with Horatio. The announcement of his birth was made by her, on her Instagram page. @katahicks

New Deputy Lieutenants of West Glamorgan

David Byron Lewis CVO, Lord-Lieutenant of West Glamorgan has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of West Glamorgan.

The Reverend Canon Keith Evans
Mr Martin Andrew Trainer JP

New Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire

Nigel Atkinson, Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.

Admiral Sir Philip Andrew Jones KCB ADC

Life Peerage for New Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

Her Majesty The Queen has granted Ms Nicola Claire Blackwood the title of Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford, of North Oxford in the County of Oxfordshire for the duration of her life under the Life Peerage Act of 1958.

She was nominated for a Life Peerage following her appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health. Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford will sit in the House of Lords for the Conservative Party.

New Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Air Marshal Sean Keith Paul Reynolds CB CBE DFC, Honorary Aide-de-Camp to her household.

New Honorary Nurse to Her Majesty The Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Colonel M. Richter TD VR to the position of Honorary Nurse within her Royal Household in succession to Colonel E. M. C. Coles TD VR who has retired from the role.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire

Sir John Peace, Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire.

Mrs Anita Barker
Mrs Judith Naake MBE
Air Chief Marshal (Retd) Sir Andrew Pulford GCB CBE
Mr Tim Reddish CBE

New Deputy Lieutenants of West Midlands

John Crabtree OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of West Midlands commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of West Midlands.

Mr Ninder Singh Johal
Mr Christopher Loughran
Mr Douglas Wright

New Equerry to the Duke of York

His Royal Highness The Duke of York has appointed Lieutenant Commander Alex Davies RN to be his Equerry succeeding Captain Edward Monckton RN.

New Honorary Chaplain to The Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed The Reverend J. S. Mosesel, Honorary Chaplain to her household in succession to The Reverend Doctor D. G. Coulter CB QHC.

Miss Phebe Modupe-Ojo (Born 15th December 2018)

Mrs Maddison May Modupe-Ojo and Mr Olaoluwa Olamide Modupe-Ojo have had a second child. A baby girl named Phebe born 15th December 2018. Baby Phebe’s arrival was announced on her father’s Instagram page.

Mrs Maddison May Modupe-Ojo is the eldest child of Mr Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell and Mrs Edwina Victoria Louise Brudenell (née Hicks) and Granddaughter of Lady Pamela Carmen Louise Hicks (née Mountbatten) and Mr David Nightingale Hicks.

Mrs Maddison May Modupe-Ojo is a Great-Granddaughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (née Ashley) and a Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Consort. Phebe like her mother Maddison is in the Line of Succession to the British throne.