Rock legend Brian Could knighted 20 years after rocking on the roof of Buckingham Palace

Rock royalty will meet precise royalty after Queen guitarist Brian Could was knighted within the New 12 months Honours.Artist Grayson Perry, Sixties clothier Dame Mary Quant and members of the Lionesses’ Euros-winning soccer squad are additionally recognised in King Charles III’s first honours listing.Brian Could, who receives his knighthood for providers to music and charity, famously carried out God Save The Queen from the roof of Buckingham Palace for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. He additionally opened this summer season’s Platinum Jubilee live performance atop the Victoria Monument reverse the palace.The 75-year-old is taken into account to be among the many best rock guitarists of all time after co-founding Queen in London in 1970 with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. Queen lead guitarist Brian Could was knighted on this years New 12 months Honours. Pictured: Brian Could performing on the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth on June 3 2002  King Charles assembly Brian Could through the Capital Radio Get together within the Park at Hyde Park on July 7 2002Sir Brian has extra lately targeted on animal rights activism and astrophysics. He stated: ‘I don’t assume I anticipated it as a result of I haven’t been conducting the type of life which I assumed would result in a knighthood – I’ve been fairly vociferous in criticising current governments, for a begin.‘I imagined I used to be on the fallacious facet for all that stuff. It’s a pleasant shock to have this honour put upon me.’Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry receives a knighthood for providers to the humanities. The flamboyant cross-dressing 62-year-old is thought for his pottery, sculptures and tapestries, and beforehand earned a Bafta for his tv work.He collected a CBE from the then-Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 2014 whereas carrying a midnight-blue gown, jacket and heels, later telling reporters: ‘After I received the decision [about the CBE], my first thought was what am I going to put on? It’s a severe factor. I’m not going to compromise my identification as Britain’s pre-eminent transvestite.’ Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry (pictured) receives a knighthood for providers to the humanities. The flamboyant cross-dressing 62-year-old is thought for his pottery, sculptures and tapestries, and beforehand earned a Bafta for his tv workDame Mary Quant is appointed a Companion of Honour, a prestigious award given to those that have made a long-standing contribution to arts, science, medication or authorities.The honour was introduced only a day after the dying of fellow catwalk pioneer Dame Vivienne Westwood.Dame Mary, 92, is credited with popularising the mini-skirt, which was worn by the likes of mannequin Twiggy. She was made a dame in 2014, once more for providers to vogue, saying on the time it was ‘the women on King’s Street who invented the mini. I wore them very brief and the purchasers would say, “shorter, shorter”’.Membership of the Companions of Honour is proscribed to simply 65 folks, with present holders together with Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John. Virginia McKenna (pictured), the 91-year-old actress and co-founder of the Born Free Basis, has been made a dameIn the leisure world, actors Stephen Graham and David Harewood each obtain OBEs for providers to drama.Homeland star Harewood, 57, can also be recognised for providers to charity, having been an outspoken campaigner on race and psychological well being.Merseysider Graham, 49, is well-known for starring roles in Line of Responsibility, That is England, and Snatch. He gained an Worldwide Emmy for care-home drama Assist, and a Bafta for hard-hitting jail drama Time alongside Sean Bean.Comic Frank Skinner has been awarded an MBE for providers to leisure, however stated he didn’t inform his family members of the honour as a result of he thought it ‘is likely to be some form of administrative error’.The 65-year-old – whose actual identify is Christopher Collins – turned a family identify as half of a comedy duo alongside David Baddiel. Stephen Graham, 49, is well-known for starring roles in Line of Responsibility, That is England, and Snatch. He gained an Worldwide Emmy for care-home drama Assist, and a Bafta for hard-hitting jail drama Time alongside Sean Bean. He was been awarded an OBE for providers to dramaIn sport, athletics legend Denise Lewis is made a dame for providers to sport, whereas Liverpool and Scotland defender Andy Robertson and former footballer-turned-pundit Chris Kamara each obtain MBEs for providers to soccer and charity. Olympic gold medallist and BBC pundit Lewis stated she had not stopped smiling since receiving the information of her damehood, describing it as ‘an unimaginable honour’. The 50-year-old soared to prominence after profitable heptathlon gold on the 2000 Sydney Olympics.She stated: ‘I used to be endeared into the nation at the moment, and it’s virtually like going full circle having this damehood 22 years after that efficiency. It’s very emotional.’She is joined on the New 12 months Honours listing by former world champion Lizzie Deignan (nee Armitstead), 34 – who receives an MBE for providers to biking, and ex-Northern Eire, Tottenham and Arsenal goalkeeper Pat Jennings, 77, who has been awarded a CBE for providers to soccer and charity. Clothier Dame Mary Quant on the Courthouse Lodge, London. She is appointed a Companion of Honour, a prestigious award given to those that have made a long-standing contribution to arts, science, medication or authorities 4 members of England’s triumphant girls’s Euro 2022 squad and their coach are additionally recognised.Former Countdown star Rachel Riley, 36, is amongst many distinguished campaigners honoured for efforts to boost consciousness of the Holocaust and fight anti-Semitism.She receives an MBE, having been a vocal critic of Labour’s dealing with of anti-Semitism and of Jeremy Corbyn’s conduct whereas chief.Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, 66, warned that world anti-Semitism was ‘on the rise’ after receiving a knighthood for providers to the Jewish group, interfaith relations and schooling.He stated feedback and actions by high-profile figures equivalent to rapper Kanye West ‘do make a really vital mark and we shouldn’t be silent within the wake of such feedback and actions’. Veteran journalists Anne Diamond was additionally given an OBE. The GB Information host has been recommended for providers to public well being and charityVeteran journalists Anne Diamond and John Suchet have each been given OBEs.GB Information host Diamond, 68, has been recommended for providers to public well being and charity, for her efforts to boost consciousness of cot dying after she and her then-husband Mike Hollingsworth misplaced their son Sebastian to sudden toddler dying syndrome in 1990.Former ITN broadcaster Suchet, 78, is an envoy for the Alzheimer’s Society and can also be recognised for his providers to charity.Virginia McKenna, the 91-year-old actress and co-founder of the Born Free Basis, has been made a dame.BBC Radio 2 presenter DJ Spoony, 52, whose actual identify is Johnathan Joseph, receives a British Empire Medal for his charity fundraising through the Covid pandemic.