RAF NY Honours 2015

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And, in the finest traditions, there will be Lady Fiona North

I must agree with your sentiments crab@, a fine lady (and Lady!)

But I must diagree with your title for her. [PEDANT] As she is not the daughter of a Duke, Marquess or Earl, which would entitle her to the honorific "Lady" before her given name (cf Lady Di), she should correctly be referred to as "Fiona, Lady North". [/PEDANT]

Congrats to both anyway!

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Teeteringhead - Roger So it won't be Sir Basil and Lady Fiona of Northington then?

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But I must disagree with your title for her. [PEDANT] As she is not the daughter of a Duke, Marquess or Earl, which would entitle her to the honorific "Lady" before her given name (cf Lady Di), she should correctly be referred to as "Fiona, Lady North". - Teeters

But I must gently disagree with you, without diminishing any appreciation of Air Marshal North's well-deserved advancement, since preceding the wife of a knight's title with her given name is surely normally only appropriate when there is more than one Lady X or, Heaven forfend, if Lady X is divorced and her former husband has remarried.

On a slight change of tack, interesting to note that the appointment of Second Sea Lord now ultimately merits the award of KBE rather than KCB.

Jack

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Strictly speaking Jack you are correct, and it should only be "Lady North", nothing more nor less in the current circumstances.

But it does seem just a little unchivalrous to leave out her own given name.

I'm just as much a sentimentalist as I am a pedant!

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I'm just as much a sentimentalist as I am a pedant! - Teeters

Sounds like that makes two of us then!

Jack

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Is that the same as a Christian name?

It's the PC version ....