Another James Bond received a knightly title

The famous actor Roger Moore on Thursday, October 9, will be dedicated to the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth the second in the knight of the British Empire. According to the press service of the royal court, the solemn ceremony of the official complaint to the actor of the knightly title will be held in the Buckingham Palace.

The Order of the British Empire was announced on the awarding of Roger Moore on the eve of the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth, on June 14, 2003, when various British state awards are presented with several hundred subjects of the United Kingdom.

The 76 -year -old actor Roger Moore was awarded not so much for his acting work and the role of James Bond, but for a decade of activity as an ambassador of the goodwill of the UN -Unisef Children's Fund .

"I accept this title on behalf of many thousands of volunteers and employees of UNICEF, who have devoted their lives to millions of needy children around the world," Moore said.

Meanwhile, the British are already joking that now the legendary phrase of agent 007 can rightfully sound like this: "My name is Bond, Sir James Bond." Since Moore was awarded the highest degree of the order - Knightsa, which gives the right to add the title "sir" to its name. Recall that earlier Sean Connery was also awarded the knightly title.

According to RIA Novosti in the Buckingham Palace, the Order of the British Empire was established in 1917 by King George V for awarding subjects not for their origin, but for personal merits. Currently, about 100 thousand cavaliers of this order lives in the world. His motto are the words "for God and for the empire."