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Paul McCartney, J.K. Rowling on top honors list─── 09:49 Sun, 18 Jun 2017
London - Former Beatle Paul McCartney and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling led those named to the U.K.’s honors list awarded to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday.
Both are made Companions of Honour, a 100-year-old award limited to 65 members at any one time, along with designer Terence Conran, cookbook writer and TV presenter Delia Smith and Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist and author of a widely-cited report into the economics of climate change.
The list, officially published Saturday, recognizes “extraordinary people” from across the U.K. and is the “most diverse since the Order of the British Empire was started in 1917,” Mary Marsh, a member of the honors committee, said at a briefing in Queen Victoria’s former bedroom in London’s Kensington Palace.
