Brian May, guitarist for the rock group Queen, is one of the nearly 1,000 personalities who have been honored on Friday by Carlos III on the occasion of the traditional royal promotions granted for the new year.
The guitarist, recognizable among a thousand for his long curly hair, performed the national anthem “God Save the Queen” perched on the roof of Buckingham Palace on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reign of Elizabeth II in 2002. He had already been knighted by the monarch in 2005.
This year he also played in June on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s reign. She receives a new distinction for her “services to music and charitable works.”
The 75-year-old musician, also an astrophysicist and committed to animal welfare, told the AP agency to receive the title of “bachelor gentleman” “as a kind of commission to do the things that are expected” from this title: ” fighter”. for justice, fighting for people who don’t have a voice.
Source: BFM TV
