knighthood

If you ask for a knighthood and an apology from the royal family then that's what you do.

An apology to the whole community and any survivors is in order and a posthumous knighthood for A.

Examples from the middle ages include grants of knighthood[1] as payment for some unusual service.

There's been a certain scientist in the news recently, who resigned from his job, but has kept his knighthood and Nobel Prize.

I don't support the posthumous pardon at all, and those calling for the posthumous knighthood are getting ridiculous.

Now you just have to get the Queen to give him that knighthood...

This is known as the highest honour you can get just above knighthood.

The person who created the petition has, separately, called for a knighthood.

It's not only an apology, they're also calling for a posthumous knighthood.

Maybe it's a little bit silly, but I do think a posthumous knighthood is in order.

Assuming the close relation of knighthood and religion, I still wouldn't dismiss my unfounded theory.

That's a very narrow definition which would even exclude people like Alan Sugar who has an actual lordship and knighthood as well piles of cash.

It's a effectively a feudal system of "knighthood," or at least analogous to that.

I suspect if he were offered a Knighthood or some other ostentatious honor, he'd respectfully turn that down as well--unlike certain other Internet protocol "inventors"...

I didn't feel that when writing to The Queen asking her to give someone a knighthood that it would be appropriate for me to use the following language: "Yo, Liz.

While we're at it, it would be "Sir Arthur" in short form, though it's really nor proper to use the honorific at all after a knight is deceased -- the knighthood is strictly a lifetime honour, and dies with the knight.