Sentences with phrase «offering knighthood»
Queen Elizabeth II is offering knighthood in exchange for playing his most popular piece, «Simple Songs,» at Prince Philip's impending birthday concert.
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Hockney was offered a knighthood in 1990 but declined, before accepting an Order of Merit in January 2012.
Hockney was offered a knighthood in 1990 but turned it down.
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It's hard to imagine a modern - day academic, under pressure to produce, leaving such a volume of work unpublished, but Oakeshott never felt compelled to bow to worldly pressures or pursue worldly gains — going so far as to decline, graciously, an offer of a knighthood.
Among those to contribute to her campaign was Ian Taylor, a prominent donor to the Remain campaign who this week rejected a reported knighthood offer from former prime minister David Cameron.
It offers insights into the intrigues behind Magna Carta, into medieval notions of knighthood and chivalry and into social diversity in the Middle Ages.