Queen Elizabeth II has used her delayed birthday honors list to celebrate the selfless work of people — some more famous than others — in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
FILE - In this Friday, June 27, 2014 filephoto, David Suchet poses for a portrait during an interview in Los Angeles. Suchet, who played Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot on television for almost 25 years has been knighted for services to entertainment in the Queen's Birthday honor list, it was announced late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.
In total, 1,495 honours make up this year’s list, with health and social care workers making up 14%. The list is also the most diverse ever, with 13% of recipients from a minority ethnic background. Kwaku, an associate director of nursing at King’s College NHS Foundation Trust in London, supported nurses from ethnic backgrounds during the pandemic by delivering webinars and raising issues surrounding personal protective equipment.
Though more people from ethnic backgrounds are being recognized, the honors system continues to draw criticism over the lack of diversity. The winners are actually chosen by civil servants committees based on nominations from the government and the public. The awards are usually given out by the queen or a senior royal acting in her place during investitures at Buckingham Palace, but the pandemic has changed all that, not least because the queen is self-isolating at Windsor Castle.Sports coach Joe Wicks, who effectively became the U.K.
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