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What I didn't know is if you are knighted, you have to give up your birth citizenship.
by hellbannedguy 5y ago
What I didn't know is if you are knighted, you have to give up your birth citizenship.
- helsinkiandrew 5y agoForeigners get honorary knighthoods: Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Dwight Eisenhower etc. Apparently if you take up British Citizenship it automatically converts.
- eru 5y agoWell, a knight is a servant to the monarch, thus subject of her.
- mkl 5y agoThat seems to be a US rule [1], not a condition imposed by the knighting jurisdiction. Maybe some other countries have similar no-titles rules, but I couldn't find any (might be searching for the wrong terms). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Emoluments_Clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Emoluments_Clause
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- Zuider 5y agoNot quite true. If you wished to be addressed by the title of 'Sir' or 'Dame,' you would have to be a British citizen, but a non citizen can add letters after their name, e.g. Bob Geldof, KBE, remains a citizen of the Republic of Ireland.
- dghf 5y agoI believe Commonwealth citizens (at least, those from countries that share a monarch with the UK) are entitled to use 'Sir' or 'Dame' as well: though Canada, for one, seems to take a dim view of its citizens accepting British honours.
- lmilcin 5y agoKnighthood is not just a title, it also means you are servant, subject to the monarch. My understanding is you have to become citizen for this. And while Britain allows dual citizenship, most countries do not. So in most cases you need to rescind your other citizenship in order to be come an actual knight.