Every New Year’s Eve, the “New Year Honors” list is revealed by Buckingham Palace. While the monarch passes out honors throughout the year to mark achievements or certain events, the New Year Honors are considered very special in the UK. This year, David Beckham was once again snubbed. It’s especially hilarious because Beckham has been doing the MOST to suck up to the Windsors for several years now. So who was honored? Carey Mulligan, Stephen Fry and the king’s apothecary. A real job!
Carey Mulligan, Stephen Fry, Sarah Lancashire and others have made the cut for King Charles’ 2025 New Year Honors list. Honors are typically given out at the new year and at the monarch’s official birthday, celebrated each June, and celebrate contributions of well-known personalities, government officials and even everyday people who have served their respective communities in an extraordinary way.
Among those recognized on this year’s New Year Honors list are two doctors believed to have been a part of the King’s medical team as he navigated cancer this year — the type and stage of which remains unknown to the public. The King, 76, has given honors to Dr. Douglas Glass and Professor Richard Leach this year. Per Hello!, Dr. Glass is the King’s apothecary and also served as Queen Elizabeth’s apothecary as well — and “was the medical professional in attendance at Balmoral when she died,” the outlet reported.
Professor Leach is a consultant physician at the private King Edward VIII’s Hospital in London, “where members of the royal family have been treated for decades,” according to the outlet. “It’s not uncommon for doctors of the royal family to receive personal recognition,” the outlet continued, citing the late Queen’s decision to knight her Head of the Medical Household, Sir Huw Thomas, in 2021.
Mulligan and Lancashire have both been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and Lancashire called the recognition an “unexpected delight,” according to Hello!. For his part, Fry said he felt “startled and enchanted” after receiving a knighthood for his services to mental health awareness and the environment.
Other notable names given honors this iteration include Gareth Southgate, former manager of England’s national football team, and London mayor Sadiq Khan, who were both knighted in the New Year Honors. Sadiq — who has served as London’s mayor since 2016 — said he was “truly humbled” to receive the honor.
I’ve never thought of Carey Mulligan as any kind of royalist, and she’s avoided almost all royal events and royal-adjacent events. It’s possible that her CBE is more about her actual career and her talent. She’s one of Britain’s best actresses, so I wouldn’t be surprised. I also find it odd that Charles has now repeatedly gone out of his way to recognize and publicly thank his doctors, all while there’s still so much mystery around the Princess of Wales’s health issues and treatment. Kate has never thanked any member of her medical team by name.
Also, the Mail had this very interesting story about how many people have rejected honors. Apparently, since Charles became king, “more than 120 people have turned down a knighthood, damehood, MBE, OBE or other awards in recognition of their achievements in public life.” Not only that, but “2024 marked the second-highest number of rejections in 15 years.” LMAO. Some of this is not even Charles’s fault – as Boris Johnson was exiting 10 Downing Street, he gave honors to every unhinged Tory of his acquaintance. Johnson cheapened the honors system just as much as Charles did. Plus, people just don’t give a sh-t about honors anymore. Except for David Beckham.
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- Carey Mulligan bei der Verleihung der 81. Golden Globe Awards im Beverly Hilton Hotel. Beverly Hills, 07.01.2024 *** Carey Mulligan at the 81 Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Beverly Hills, 07 01 2024 Foto:xJ.xBlocx/xFuturexImagex globes_2024_4296,Image: 835178743, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Jennifer Bloc / Avalon
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- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – FEBRUARY 24: Carey Mulligan wearing a custom Armani Prive gown and Fred Leighton jewelry arrives at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 850576080, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Carey Mulligan, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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- King Charles III joins a discussion with the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit on youth opportunities to hear from charities working on the ground in Ayrshire, Glasgow and across the United Kingdom, at Dumfries House in Cumnock, Ayrshire. Dumfries House is the headquarters of The King’s Foundation, a charity founded by the King as the Prince of Wales in 1990. Picture date: Friday September 20, 2024.,Image: 910095725, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jane Barlow / Avalon
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Carey is a solid, even great actress in the right role so why not? Sooner or later they all kowtow to the monarchy to get those orders (Hannah Waddington is surely crying into her morning tea). And whomever her stylist was this year dressed Carey like a wrapped present, she looked fabulous and classy at event after event, well done!
I think most of the rejections are down to people having issues with the BE part of the honours systems.
BTW the honours systems was corrupt long before Boris Johnson became PM.
Yes, saw John Oliver in DC last weekend, and he said they’d called and offered him an OBE. (I don’t think this year, but at some point fairly recently?) He explicitly refused because of the BE part of the honor, and also he was clearly no royalist either. He went on quite the little diversion about how the current family ended up on the throne.
As a Carey myself I say brava! But as a republican of Irish descent I say WTF who cares about this rubbish. However we are here on the CB site to gossip and laugh about the foibles of celebrity so I raise a glass.
Most people have a problem with The Order of the British Empire . The Empire is problematic and should be dropped and replaced with, ‘ Excellence ‘ Empire has become a dirty word. It reminds us of the enslavement and colonialism.
Or just “Order of Britain” – other countries have had no problem with naming their equivalent in that way (e.g., Order of Canada, Order of New Zealand).
Perhaps replace Empire with Commonwealth. Just using Britain or even UK takes away from the members of the commonwealth outside the UK.
OMG, the photo of Chuck with the Burger King sign reflecting in the glass.
Also DB needs to stop acting so thirsty and agreeing to everything they ask him to do. Maintain some air of exclusivity.
Maybe more and more people are recognizing monarchy, class systems and such honors as the empty shell they are.
Empire. Seriously??
The empire made us rich at huge cost to those we colonised and no longer exists. So sure, that’s absolutely something to celebrate!
As for Mulligan, I think this is almost certainly based on actual perceived merit, as opposed to support for the the royals. For example, all 13 British actress who have ever received three or more Best Actress Academy Award nominations have been offered a CBE or DBE for services to drama (and all, including even Glenda Jackson in 1978, have accepted, except for Julie Christie in 2008). Still, I wish she’d declined.
They should be ashamed to accept.. and more people should be declining.
I was looking an oncologist on the list.
Tansin: both doctors are not onkologist, I was looking too. Astonishing.
They are going to make Beckham work for that recognition, since he is so willing to humiliate himself for the royals. He is too thirst and that is probably why he’s been overlooked again and again. They will probably give him one eventually – perhaps when he is really old.
Carey Mullligan is a good actress who surely elevated Netflix “Maestro” beyond what Bradley Cooper could achieve, nose or not. If she’s good with being an emblem of the British Empire, that’s her problem.
However, Stephen Fry being “startled and enchanted” to receive a “knighthood for his services to mental health awareness,” given his past truly wacko statements and both-sides mealymouthed equivocations should be mildly appalling to Brits and BE Anglophiles. “If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would…hang around in churchyards…or…meet strangers to shag behind a bush. It doesn’t happen. Why? Because the only women you can have sex with like that wish to be paid for it.” (Guardian 10/30/2010). There was also the time the mental health charity Mind wanted a talk with him for suggesting sexual abuse victims should get over it, “because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself. Just grow up.” (Guardian 4/12/2016). Fry also thought it was wrong to consider someone a sexual assault “victim”, including ’14-yr old girls who had sex with rock stars,’ unless a case had “come to court.”
There are other cases of Fry’s hoof-in-mouth disease, but why bother? IMHO his receipt of, and reaction to, this ridiculously anachronistic and blood-soaked BE ‘honour’ says it all.
Everybody is rejecting honors and David Beckham can’t even get one … I truly don’t have the words to express how hilarious this situation is becoming. The Windsors want to humiliate him, there is no other explanation.