Kate, 42, has been made a Royal Companion of the organisation, which was founded in 1917 to recognise outstanding achievements in the arts, sciences, medicine and public service.
The honours list at the end of December is just one of the ways ordinary subjects can be exalted by being selected into an order, being granted a medal or having a life long peerage bestowed.
Double Oxford graduate Reverend Canon Anthony Howe describes himself online as Deputy Priest in Ordinary to His Majesty the King , but an unholy row is brewing.