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Monarchy, Honours, and the Molding of Modern Society -- A Conversation with Tobias Harper

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Order of the British Empire

The most widespread honor that people now get is order of the british empire and there are different ranks right you can mbe and then obe and then cbe. Prince phillip comes into this story just as an interesting way to start what did how did prince phillip weigh in on this question about the name of this order so i'm pretty good  and he doesn't get anywhere with this even though he's the grandmaster of the order of british Empire The people who actually run it in the treasury have no interest in changing the name but once those places start naming their own honors they will be able to renaming or sort of creating your honors.

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