The Queen's Birthday Honours list has been announced. Famous names recognised in Wales include Wales football legend Gareth Bale, who has received an MBE, as well as former Welsh rugby player Brynmor Williams and singer Bonnie Tyler, who both receive MBEs. Other awards have been given to people who helped during the pandemic, including a headteacher who went "far beyond the remit of her paid role".
Gareth Bale has been honoured for services to football and charity, Brynmor Williams for services to sport and charity, and Hugh Morris, chief executive of Glamorgan Cricket, received an MBE for services to cricket and charity. Actor Damian Lewis receives a CBE for services to drama and charity for initiating the campaign to raise £1 million to provide food for NHS workers throughout Covid-19. Dr Gillian Richardson, who was head of the Welsh vaccine programme, has also been honoured. Singer Bonnie Tyler, from Swansea, has received an MBE.
Emma Lewis, 42, who set up the Roots Foundation has been honoured, as has Cardiff headteacher Michelle Jones, 48, who is headteacher at Lansdowne Primary School in Canton, Cardiff. Twice she postponed her own wedding to concentrate on the needs of vulnerable children.
