separately from the main new year honours list, buckingham palace has announced that tony blair will receive a knighthood. the former prime minister will be appointed a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter the oldest and most senior british order of chivalry. joining him, as the first black member of the order, is lady amos who served in his cabinet. 0ur political correspondent chris mason gave us some background to the title of knight companion of the most noble order of the garter which has been awarded to tony blair. it is a kind of souped up, turbo charged knighthood, and we get this waterfall of the alphabet on days like this, with the honours announcement, cbe, mbe, 0be, you name it, but then this additional category which is separate, in the direct gift of the queen. tony blair becoming a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter. this has existed since 1348 when edward iii was around.
member of the order, is lady amos who served in his cabinet. our political correspondent chris mason gave us some background to the title of knight companion of the most noble order of the garter which has been awarded to tony blair. there is a kind of souped up, turbo charge knighthood. we get this water fall of the alphabet on days like this with the honours and announcements. cbe, obm, obe, b em, you name it. and then there s this additional category which is separate and the direct gift of the queen, as you imagine, tony blair becoming a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter. this is existed since 1348 when edward the third was around. and his idea was to have disassembly of aristocratic blokes, they were both of those things and only those things at the time. to kind of advise him. since then it is moulded into something that is meant to mark the most distinguished public
the most noble order of the garter. this is the oldest and most senior british order of chivalry. joining him, as the first black member of the order, is lady amos who served in his cabinet. our political correspondent chris mason gave us some background to the title of knight companion of the most noble order of the garter which has been awarded to tony blair. it is a kind of souped up, turbo charged knighthood, and we get this waterfall of the alphabet on days like this, with the honours announcements, cbe, mbe, obe, you name it, but then this additional category which is separate, in the direct gift of the queen. tony blair becoming a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter. this has existed since 1348 when edward iii was around. his idea was to have this assembly of aristocratic blokes to advise him, really, and since then it has
andy swiss, bbc news. separately from the main new year honours list, buckingham palace has announced that tony blair will receive a knighthood. the former prime minister will be appointed a knight companion of the most noble order of the garter the oldest and most senior british order of chivalry. joining him, as the first black member of the order, is lady amos who served in his cabinet. 0ur political correspondent chris mason gave us some background to the title of knight companion of the most noble order of the garter which has been awarded to tony blair. it is a kind of souped up, turbo charged knighthood, and we get this waterfall of the alphabet on days like this, with the honours announcement, cbe, mbe, 0be, you name it, but then this additional