BREAKING NEWS: The King’s Birthday Honours for 2024 has been released and here👇👇is all the names of the people who have been awarded this year.

King Charles’s Birthday Honours list has been announced tonight and includes famous faces like former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Post Office campaigner Alan Bates and actress Imelda Staunton.

The King releases two honours lists per year, one in the new year, and another on his birthday.

A total of 1,077 people from across the UK received honours in Friday’s list,
with 64 percent of them being people who showed “outstanding work” in their communities either in a voluntary
or paid capacity, according to the award organisers.

The highest award went to Mr Brown who was made a Companion of Honour, while Sir Alan was knighted in recognition of his campaigning work which highlighted the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Artist Tracy Emin, actress Imelda Staunton and fashion accessories designer Anya Hindmarch were all made dames in the list, while writer Armando Iannucci was made a CBE and cyclist Mark Cavendish was knighted.

Singer Rebecca Ferguson, Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon, Countdown’s Susie Dent and Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden were among the showbiz names to be made MBEs.

Choreographer Wayne McGregor, composer John Rutter and historian Niall Ferguson were all also knighted in the list.

In the sporting world, former cyclist Chris Boardman and former Liverpool midfielder Graeme Souness were made CBEs, while former England footballer Karen Carney was made an OBE.

Revenue and Customs chief executive Jim Harra was also made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, which recognises the work of senior military officials and civil servants.

The youngest recipient in the list was 20-year-old Shamza Butt who received a British Empire Medal for her work at the voluntary development programme National Citizen Service on behalf of young people.

The oldest one was Harold Jones, who at 100 years old received a British Empire Medal for his fundraising for motor neurone disease charities in Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands.f