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The Sunday Mirror published an "exclusive" front-page report that Blair was going to ask the queen to confer a knighthood on the chairman of the peace talks, former U.S.
As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
In 1579 England’s Francis Drake, during the round-the-world trip that earned him his knighthood, took a break from harrying Spanish treasure galleons and stopped for repairs at Point Reyes (Drake’s Bay, just north of San Francisco).
By a strange coincidence, Mitchell went to Buckingham Palace Thursday to receive an honorary knighthood from the queen for his role in brokering the agreement.
(The Templeton Prize helped its founder win a knighthood in 1987.