garter to turn up and i'm glancing at my notebook here because this was not information lodged in my head until a couple of hours ago, there is this annual procession at windsor castle where the queen spends a good amount of time, where all of the members where velvet robes and plumed hats and they also have a lunch and a get together and originally when it was set up back in 1348 by edward the third it was a kind of aristocratic club of advisers, distinguish people in their field who were there to advise them on time and it is a little less aristocratic now but the principal still say that as you say, it is the highest honour in the complicated british honours system replete with various titles that otherwise might not get mentioned very often and lots of letters of the alphabet.