Businesswoman Elisabeth Murdoch, UK Masterchef’s host John Torode get gongs alongside novelist Salman Rushdie, actor Damian Lewis and singer Bonnie Rait.
Sir Quentin (pictured) has written and illustrated more than 500 books over a career spanning seven decades, and said the honour was an enormous privilege .
Two Kentish Town literary heavyweights have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours, so too a St John's Wood born actor and Hampstead publisher