RBS chief Fred Goodwin joins the likes of Robert Mugabe, Anthony Blunt and Nicolae Ceausescu in losing his knighthood
Since 1995, the honours forfeiture committee has recommended that 34 people be stripped of their honours, including former world boxing champion Prince Naseem MBE, who was convicted of dangerous driving, and Lester Piggott OBE, who was found guilty of tax fraud.
Anthony Blunt was director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was awarded a knighthood in 1956. He confessed to being a part of the Cambridge Spy ring in 1964, having passed wartime intelligence to the Russians. He was publicly exposed in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood. He died a recluse three years later.
Robert Mugabe, the ruler of Zimbabwe, received his knighthood during a state visit in 1994. But the Queen stripped him of the honour in 2008 after Britain intensified sanctions and cancelled a cricket tour over human rights violations and attacks on opposition parties.
Nicolae Ceasescu, the ruler of Communist Romania, was awarded a knighthood in 1978. His nationalist regime, marked by a ubiquitous personality cult, became increasingly repressive and impoverished through the 1980s. He was stripped of the honour in 1989. He was overthrown in December that year, and executed by firing squad after a brief trial on Christmas Day.
Roger Casement was an Irish nationalist and poet. He investigated human rights abuses in the Belgian Congo on behalf of the British government, and campaigned against slavery in Peru, where he had served as British consul. He was knighted in 1911 for his efforts on behalf of the Amazonian Indians. But after leaving the consular service in 1913 he helped form the Irish Volunteers militia. He was captured during the 1916 Easter Rising, tried for treason, stripped of his knighthood and hanged.
Lester Piggott, the English jockey who had 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories. After he retired from riding horses at the end of the 1985 flat season, Piggott became a racehorse trainer. In 1987 he was jailed for three years, of which he served 366 days for tax fraud. The following year he was stripped of his OBE, which he had been awarded in 1975 because of tax evasion.
Prince Naseem, the former world boxing champion was stripped of his MBE following his conviction in 2006 after the McLaren Mercedes sports car he was driving at 90mph smashed into another vehicle. The driver was left with every major bone in his body broken and injuries to his brain. Hamed received the honour in January 1999 amid consternation that his behaviour outside the ring made him a bad role model. Henry Cooper, himself an OBE, criticised the award
RBS chief Fred Goodwin joins the likes of Robert Mugabe, Anthony Blunt and Nicolae Ceausescu in losing his knighthood
Since 1995, the honours forfeiture committee has recommended that 34 people be stripped of their honours, including former world boxing champion Prince Naseem MBE, who was convicted of dangerous driving, and Lester Piggott OBE, who was found guilty of tax fraud.
Anthony Blunt was director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was awarded a knighthood in 1956. He confessed to being a part of the Cambridge Spy ring in 1964, having passed wartime intelligence to the Russians. He was publicly exposed in 1979 and stripped of his knighthood. He died a recluse three years later.
Robert Mugabe, the ruler of Zimbabwe, received his knighthood during a state visit in 1994. But the Queen stripped him of the honour in 2008 after Britain intensified sanctions and cancelled a cricket tour over human rights violations and attacks on opposition parties.
Nicolae Ceasescu, the ruler of Communist Romania, was awarded a knighthood in 1978. His nationalist regime, marked by a ubiquitous personality cult, became increasingly repressive and impoverished through the 1980s. He was stripped of the honour in 1989. He was overthrown in December that year, and executed by firing squad after a brief trial on Christmas Day.
Roger Casement was an Irish nationalist and poet. He investigated human rights abuses in the Belgian Congo on behalf of the British government, and campaigned against slavery in Peru, where he had served as British consul. He was knighted in 1911 for his efforts on behalf of the Amazonian Indians. But after leaving the consular service in 1913 he helped form the Irish Volunteers militia. He was captured during the 1916 Easter Rising, tried for treason, stripped of his knighthood and hanged.
Lester Piggott, the English jockey who had 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories. After he retired from riding horses at the end of the 1985 flat season, Piggott became a racehorse trainer. In 1987 he was jailed for three years, of which he served 366 days for tax fraud. The following year he was stripped of his OBE, which he had been awarded in 1975 because of tax evasion.
Prince Naseem, the former world boxing champion was stripped of his MBE following his conviction in 2006 after the McLaren Mercedes sports car he was driving at 90mph smashed into another vehicle. The driver was left with every major bone in his body broken and injuries to his brain. Hamed received the honour in January 1999 amid consternation that his behaviour outside the ring made him a bad role model. Henry Cooper, himself an OBE, criticised the award
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