King’s Birthday Honours 2025: Gary Oldman and Strictly hosts Tess and Claudia be a part of David Beckham

Actor Gary Oldman has been knighted alongside David Beckham on a King’s Birthday Honours listing that additionally recognises Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman.

The Oscar winner and the previous soccer England captain are amongst 19 new sirs, whereas 21 damehoods have been introduced, together with singer and actress Elaine Paige and Regeneration novelist Pat Barker.

There are MBEs for teenage world darts champion Luke Littler and Love Island star Georgia Harrison for her work on on-line privateness and cyber crime.

Overall, 1,200 individuals are on the principle honours listed issued by the Cabinet Office, of which 48% are ladies. The youngest particular person being honoured is 11 whereas the oldest is 106.

The listing contains a vary of well-known names, together with from the humanities, politics and sports activities, however it’s primarily made up of individuals being recognised for his or her work locally, together with campaigners and fundraisers.

Actor Sir Gary has loved an illustrious profession on display and stage for the reason that early Eighties and in 2018, received finest actor on the Academy Awards for enjoying wartime prime minister Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. More lately, he received popularity of his portrayal of an MI5 agent in Apple TV’s Slow Horses.

Daly and Winkleman are made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for companies to broadcasting.

Both have had an extended affiliation with Strictly, which has aired 22 sequence. Daly began as a co-presenter with Sir Bruce Forsyth within the first season in 2004, whereas Winkleman initially hosted a spin-off programme. They have hosted the principle present as a duo since 2014.

“I am ridiculously lucky and will celebrate with Tess by doing a paso doble,” Winkleman stated.

Daly stated she virtually missed out on accepting the honour after the letter was despatched to the mistaken deal with – and added that she cried when she opened the envelope.

Sir David’s knighthood for companies to sport and charity has been confirmed, having been broadly reported earlier this month. The 50-year-old ex-footballer stated he was “immensely proud”.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2003, and have become an envoy for Unicef in 2005 and for The King’s Foundation final yr, supporting King Charles’ training programme and efforts to advertise nature.

“I’m so lucky to be able to do the work that I do and I’m grateful to be recognised for work that gives me so much fulfilment,” Beckham stated.

Evita star Dame Elaine additionally obtained her honour for companies to music and charity. “I’ve been very lucky in my life and my career, I’m in a very privileged position,” she advised the BBC. “When you are in a position to help others, that is something I wanted to do.”

Sir Roger Daltrey, frontman of Nineteen Sixties-formed rock group The Who and a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust – identified for its annual fundraising live shows on the Royal Albert Hall – has been knighted for companies to charity and music.

Sir Roger stated he was accepting the knighthood “on behalf of all those unsung people who had worked to make the charity the success it had become”.

Georgia Harrison, 30, made her identify on actuality TV exhibits like Love Island and The Only Way is Essex. More lately, after her ex-partner was jailed in 2023 for posting intimate footage of her on-line, she has campaigned for sexual assault victims to be prioritised within the justice system and partnered with Thames Valley Police to encourage conversations about consent.

“Speaking out after what happened wasn’t easy, but I knew it was important,” Harrison stated. “I didn’t want anyone else to feel as alone or powerless as I did. I’ve tried to turn something painful into something positive, and this honour is a reminder that we can make change when we use our voices.”

Darts participant Luke Littler, 18 – the youngest winner of the PDC World Darts Championship – seems on the listing with one in every of his essential rivals – Premier League Darts champion Luke Humphries, 30, who additionally grew to become an MBE. There is an OBE for veteran star of the game Deta Hedman, 65, who’s recognised for her contribution to sport and charity.

Commonly-awarded ranks

• Companion of Honour – Limited to 65 individuals. Recipients put on the initials CH after their identify
• Knight or Dame
• CBE – Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• OBE – Officer of the Order of the British Empire
• MBE – Member of the Order of the British Empire
• BEM – British Empire Medal

The Birthday Honours are awarded by the King following suggestions by the prime minister, senior authorities ministers and members of the general public.

From the political world, there are damehoods for former Conservative cupboard minister Penny Mordaunt, who had a memorable position holding a ceremonial sword on the King’s coronation in 2023, and Labour’s Chi Onwurah, the MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and West. There can be a knighthood for Labour’s Mark Tami, the Alyn and Deeside MP.

Labour Glasgow MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy, the primary everlasting wheelchair consumer to be elected to Holyrood, has develop into an MBE for her public and political service.

Sir Philip Barton, the previous prime civil servant on the Foreign Office, who has beforehand obtained a number of royal honours, has develop into a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George for companies to British overseas coverage, whereas former Conservative well being minister and MP for Lewes Maria Caulfield has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for political and public service.

The Foreign Office has introduced a further honours recognising the work of abroad residents or service overseas, and there are separate lists protecting gallantry awards and for service personnel within the navy.

Business leaders on the listing embrace Nationwide chief govt Debbie Crosbie, who has been made a dame. Greggs chief govt Roisin Currie and Specsavers co-founder and chairman Douglas Perkins have each develop into CBEs.

Three commerce union leaders are being recognised, with Dave Ward, basic secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), and Dr Patrick Roach, the final secretary of the NASUWT academics’ union, being made CBEs, whereas Sue Ferns, deputy basic secretary of the civil service union Prospect, is made an OBE.

Musicians Steve Winwood and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman are each made MBEs, whereas there are OBEs for Stuart Worden, head of the BRIT School since 2021, and BBC Proms director David Pickard.

BBC radio presenter Martha Kearney, who hosted her last episode of the Today Programme in summer time 2024, has been made a CBE for companies to journalism and broadcasting.

Others from the world of stage and display on the listing embrace veteran theatrical star Jane Lapotaire, who’s made a CBE. Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh and Bafta winner Samantha Morton are among the many new MBEs, whereas former EastEnders star Anita Dobson‘s OBE recognises her work in charitable fundraising and philanthropy.

Another former EastEnders actress, Tracy-Ann Oberman, is made an MBE for companies to Holocaust training and combating antisemitism.

The sport stars recognised embrace former Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade – a CBE for companies to tennis and charity – and double Olympic triathlon gold medallist Alistair Brownlee and former cricketer Devon Malcolm, who each develop into OBEs.

Rugby League legend Billy Boston can be named on the listing, making him the primary particular person from the game to obtain a knighthood in its 130-year historical past. The 90-year-old trailblazer for black sports activities stars, who performed for Wigan and Great Britain within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, obtained his knighthood earlier this week due to issues over his well being.

Meanwhile, Angel of the North sculptor Sir Antony Gormley and physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell have joined the elite Companions of Honour, an unique group restricted to solely 65 recipients at anyone time.

But most individuals on the Birthday Honours listing are being recognised for his or her work locally.

After Samantha Madgin was murdered in Tyne and Wear in 2007, her sister Carly Barrett and mom Alison Magdin arrange Samantha’s Legacy to coach younger individuals concerning the risks of carrying knives. The pair are actually MBEs.

Zahrah Mahmood, the president of Ramblers Scotland who is thought on social media because the Hillwalking Hijabi, has been made an MBE for her contribution to voluntary service in Scotland. She is utilizing her place as president to give attention to variety and inclusion throughout the outside group.

“If this recognition helps a little to show that the outdoors is for everyone, that would mean the world to me,” Mrs Mahmood says. “But I’m also aware that visibility is often the first step. I would love to play a small part in continuing to move things in the right direction.

John and Lorna Norgrove have been made OBEs for services to women and children abroad and in Scotland after they set up a charity in memory of their daughter Linda, an aid worker who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan in September 2010 and died in an attempted rescue the following month.

“We dedicate this honour to all these courageous ladies who stay in Afghanistan, or who’ve made the choice to depart their houses and households behind to maneuver overseas and proceed their research and careers,” the couple said. “Their battle continues and they’re the true heroes of this story.”

And Duncan and Caroline Speirs and their daughter Jenna Speirs from the Isle of Bute all receive British Empire Medals for their work through Calum’s Cabin, which provides holiday homes for children facing cancer, after their son Calum died in 2007.

The oldest person to be honoured on the list is 106-year-old World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, who served in North Africa and is being given a British Empire Medal (BEM). After returning to Northern Ireland, he formed the Coleraine Winemakers Club in the early 1960s, and also went on to become one of the founders of the town’s Rotary Club and the Agivey Anglers Association.

Meanwhile, 11-year-old Carmela Chillery-Watson, from Dorset, is the youngest person on the list. Miss Chillery-Watson, who has LMNA congenital muscular dystrophy, has become the youngest-ever person to be made an MBE, in recognition of her fundraising and awareness campaigns for Muscular Dystrophy UK.

“I by no means thought something like this is able to occur,” she said. “I simply wish to make a distinction to the incapacity group, to have the ability to present them: you are robust, you are able to do no matter you need.”