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18.09.2020 / 17:50
Queen Elizabeth strips Harvey Weinstein of CBE honour
The Gazette, announcing the news.The notice announced: ‘The Queen has directed that the appointment of Harvey Weinstein to be an Honorary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated January 19 2004, shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the said Order.’Honours can be removed with approval from the Queen, with a committee considering whether the honour holder has brought the system into ‘disrepute’.The