Richard III historians Philippa Langley and John Ashdown-Hill made MBEs
BBC News (June 13, 2015)
Richard III historians Philippa Langley and John Ashdown-Hill made MBEs –
Finally, a royal recognition of the events in Leicester, by awarding the Membership of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) to both Philippa Langley and Dr. John Ashdown-Hill.
(As I was not familiar with the title of ‘MBE’, I had to look it up here at Wikipedia.)