Funeral duke gets first knighthood

KING CHARLES has awarded his first ‘quickie’ knighthood, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The new monarch bestowed the honour on the Duke of Norfolk, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, left, just ten days after inheriting the throne. It was announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list last June that the duke, 65, would receive a knighthood.

But he was not entitled to wear his Royal Victorian Order medal at the Queen’s funeral, which he was responsible for arranging, as he had not been ‘dubbed’. The duke is to mastermind Charles’s coronation ceremony.