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CELEBS WHO REJECTED TITLES
Daily Star
|December 29, 2025
Diss honours
THE King’s New Year’s Honours are coming out tomorrow - and the nation’s great and good are keeping their fingers crossed.
But it turns out not everyone dreams of being feted by royalty with a day at the palace.
History is full of big names who’ve turned down gongs.
Here MEG JORSH takes a look at some of the most interesting...
Crown of thorns: Oliver Cromwell, the original anti-monarchist, was offered the crown by Parliament in 1657 just eight years after he had Charles I beheaded. Then the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, he agonised for six weeks before saying no.
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