Skyfall singer Adele has added another award to her fast-growing collection as she received an MBE in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Adele, 25, who found worldwide fame after a friend posted her demo on MySpace in 2006, already has a bulging trophy cabinet, from Brit Awards to Grammys, and most recently an Oscar for her James Bond song.
After becoming a mother in October, she now tops off an eventful few months with an MBE for services to music.
Tony Robinson, famed for his role as long-suffering Baldrick in the Blackadder series, vowed to slaughter dragons and rescue damsels in distress as he was knighted trumping his co-star Rowan Atkinson who becomes a CBE.
Robinson, 66, said he was “thrilled, flattered and a little gob-smacked” to get the honour, adding: “I also pledge that from this day on I’ll slaughter all unruly dragons, and rescue any damsels in distress who request my help.”
Mr Bean star Atkinson, 58, said his CBE came as a “genuine surprise and is a great honour”.
MBEs go to singer-songwriter PJ Harvey and singer and broadcaster Aled Jones.
Harvey, 43, famously became the first and only artist to win the Mercury Prize on two occasions, picking it up for a second time in 2011, 10 years after her first triumph.
MBEs also go to comedian Rob Brydon, who said he accepted the honour “for short Welshmen everywhere”, and also to actor, director and playwright David Haig and Chocolat author Joanne Harris.
Sports presenter Clare Balding, widely praised for her coverage of London’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, described her OBE as the “pinnacle” of a “year of unexpected delights”.
The OBE is also given to Wendy Parry, whose son Tim, 12, was killed alongside three-year-old Johnathan Ball in the Warrington Bombing on March 20 1993.
Mrs Parry, who set up the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace with husband Colin, is awarded the OBE in the year that marks the 20th anniversary of the outrage.
She said: “Everything we have done in the past has been to keep Tim and Johnathan’s names alive. This could be another thing that will help do that.”
Today’s honours see a knighthood awarded to sculptor Anish Kapoor, who designed the 115m (377ft) ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in east London, as well as Nigel Bogle, co-founder of advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, behind adverts such as Levi’s “Laundrette”, and “Keep Walking” for Johnnie Walker whisky.
Entrepreneur and former Dragon’s Den star Hilary Devey gets a CBE, along with cinematographer Roger Deakins, famed for his work on some of the best-known films of the last 20 years.
Former James Bond villain and Game Of Thrones star Julian Glover also gets a CBE, as well as director Michael Attenborough and Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the Olympic Cauldron.
A total of 1,180 people receive awards in this year’s Birthday Honours, including 556 women, 47% of the total.