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Companion of Honour for services to music.

Macca, 75 tomorrow, said: “I’m very happy about this news coming on my birthday weekend and Father’s Day – it makes it colossal.”

Delia Smith, 75, already a CBE for her services to cookery is also made a Companion of Honour.

Author of The Snowman, Raymond Briggs, 83, is awarded an OBE For services to Literature.

Broadcaster Gloria Hunniford, 77, is honoured with an OBE for services to breast cancer charities.

In 2004, she lost her daughter Caron, also a TV presenter, to the disease.

Natasha Kaplinsky has been made an OBE for services to Holocaust honour as my 101st birthday approaches is the most gratifying of presents.”

Walters, 67, won fame with her TV collaborations with the late Victoria Wood and is also a renowned actress in film and on stage. She has won TV and film Baftas, including the coveted Bafta Fellowship, as well as an Olivier Award.

She won an OBE in 1999 and a CBE in 2008. Ab Fab and Terry commemoration. The broadcaster has spent 15 months interviewing 112 British survivors.

Kaplinsky, 44, said: “This is a huge honour and gives me an opportunity to talk about the people that I’ve met throughout this project.”

Her interviews will be exhibited in And June star Whitfield, 91, said of being made a dame: “It’s amazing and a great honour and the icing on the cake of life.”

The veteran actress played Edina Monsoon’s mother in Ab Fab and reprised her role last year in the spin-off movie.

She has worked with some of the biggest names in UK comedy, including Tony Hancock, Morecambe and Wise and Frankie Howerd. an education centre to be built next to a Holocaust memorial in London and used in nationwide schemes.

Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire, 52, and Miranda actress Patricia Hodge, 70, receive OBEs for services to drama.

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