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10 people who refused honours from the Queen

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The Queen’s New Year Honours list has been announced, leaving scores of recipients beaming with pride. But not everyone has queued up to accept honours when they’re offered them. Perhaps surprisingly for the daughter of a life peer, Nigella Lawson declined an OBE. “I'm not saving lives,” the celebrity chef explained.

Following the offer of an honour in 2000, Snow went on to make a Channel 4 investigative programme "Secrets of the Honours System".

Writing for the Independent, Snow explained how the medals had lost their lustre. Having been offered an OBE in 2000, and turned it down at the very least because I was a working journalist, I was motivated to find out more about how the whole thing worked.

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