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Thread #141144   Message #3417380
Posted By: Rob Naylor
10-Oct-12 - 04:39 AM
Thread Name: Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile of BBC [2011]
Subject: RE: 2011 Obit: RIP Sir Jimmy Savile UK disc jockey
Martin: Just listening to an interview on radio 4, seems he will be posthumously stripped of his knighthood shortly.

My understanding is that there'd have to be a change in the law for this to happen. The PM apparently said that there is a process for stripping people of titles, but he didn't appear to realise that it applies to living individuals only. There is no mechanism in law for stripping honours posthumously, AFAIK.