{"id":14381,"date":"2023-10-05T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:04:27","slug":"john-williams-awarded-honorary-british-knighthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=14381","title":{"rendered":"John Williams Awarded Honorary British Knighthood (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Photos of the event, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKinUSA\/status\/1709673976396493293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Embassy Washington<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-1024x821.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-768x616.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-1536x1231.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-2048x1642.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-560x449.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-260x208.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight1-160x128.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-scaled.jpeg 1708w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-560x840.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-260x390.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight2-160x240.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-300x236.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-1024x805.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-768x604.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-1536x1207.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-2048x1609.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-560x440.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-260x204.jpeg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JW-HonoraryKnight3-160x126.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original report from Sep 24, 2022:<\/p>\n<p>John Williams has been awarded an honorary knighthood in one of the final awards approved by Queen Elizabeth II before she died, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11244771\/Queens-final-knight-John-Williams-honoured-creating-music-blockbuster-films.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Mail reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217; award for services to film music was included in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/honorary-british-awards-to-foreign-nationals-2022\/honorary-awards-to-foreign-nationals-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>list of honorary awards for foreign nationals that was updated on September 23, 2022<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary awards recognise foreign and Commonwealth nationals who have made an outstanding contribution to the UK. Other holders include director Steven Spielberg and composer Andr\u00e9 Previn.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients are not entitled to style themselves \u2018Sir\u2019 or \u2018Dame\u2019, unlike British nationals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?\/topic\/34912-john-williams-has-been-awarded-an-honorary-knighthood\/\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Photos of the event, from the British Embassy Washington: Original report from Sep 24, 2022: John Williams has been awarded an honorary knighthood in one of the final awards approved by Queen Elizabeth II before she died, The Daily&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=14381\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15560,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/15560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}