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It doesn't surprise me that he's been given this intensely high honour from the Queen herself.

It demonstrates only the wrong selective process of such, now often, some corrupt individuals being given such high honours.
Along with the thinking of those who confer such honours on such individuals too.

Respect no longer rules.
All that does is use power to lose or destroy some of the population of the Nation's lives, then you get major rewards for doing so.