Can you lose a knighthood

Arise, Sir Rod as singer is knighted. Who else has lost an honour? Image source, PA. Who has been stripped of one of the highest British honours? George Castledine.

George Castledine was knighted by the Queen in Fred Goodwin. Fred Goodwin was the boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland during the banking crisis. James Crosby. Mr Crosby said the Banking Standards Commission's report "made for very chastening reading".

Jean Else. Alan Davies. Alan Davies had been knighted for services to education. The actor and playwright, famous for playing a variety of rotund eccentrics, accepted an Order of the British Empire OBE in , but turned down a knighthood in The essayist and author Brave New World refused a knighthood in , only four years before his death.

Random fact: Huxley, C. Lewis and John F. Kennedy all died on November 22, When she was young, the Nobel Prize-winning author was an ardent communist, rebelling against the monarchy and the British political system. In , at the age of 74, she refused to be made a Dame. The great sculptor, a major figure in the modern art movement, was always keen to remember his roots as the son of a Yorkshire coal miner.

Hence, he turned down a knighthood in because he didn't want to be seen as an establishment figure. Her honour was revoked in after she was found guilty of misconduct. Mugabe was the first foreigner to be stripped of an honorary knighthood since the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in , the day before his execution by firing squad.

Hamed was driving at about 90mph on the wrong side of the carriageway as he approached a blind dip on a road on the edge of the Peak District, smashing into the Volkswagen Golf of a painter and decorator, Anthony Burgin. Hamed was stripped of his MBE in January What was not known was that in he had confessed to having been a member of the infamous Cambridge five Soviet spy ring , passing information to Moscow while they worked for MI5 during the second world war.

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