There aren’t many celebrity names in HM Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours’ List, according to sources, and no rumours have circulated over any names in the fashion trade.
It has been understood for some time that Yorkshire actor Patrick Stewart, 69, will receive a knighthood.
Gymnast Beth Tweddle and racing car driver Jenson Button will each receive an MBE.
The Daily Telegraph adds that Mark Jones, director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, will likely be knighted, as might Ian McGeechan, the rugby coach.
Earlier this month, another Yorkshireman, Christopher Bailey of Burberry, collected his MBE from HRH the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace.
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What in Heaven’s Mercy will it require for Bryn Terfel and John Rutter to receive their long-overdue knighthoods “For Service To Music”??? Surely HM is not tone-deaf…in spite of the dubious award to Mick Jagger a few years past! But all the more reason why “justice needs to be served” for the truly spectacular musicians of our time