Image copyright PA Image caption Hardy became an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust in 2010
Film star Tom Hardy has been made a CBE for services to theatre by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.
The Mad Max and Venom actor is a friend of Princes William and Harry and was among the patrons at Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle in May.
He was decorated by the Prince of Wales at a ceremony where author Ken Follett was also made a CBE and TV historian Lucy Worsley was designated an OBE.
Businessman and philanthropist Lloyd Dorfman received a knighthood.
Hardy’s connections with royalty extend back to 2006, when he frisked Robert Dudley, Elizabeth I’s favourite, in TV’s The Virgin Queen.
It is further understood that he saw with Princes William and Harry in a scene from Star Wars: The Last-place Jedi in which they all dressed as cloaked stormtroopers. The stage did not appear in the finished film.
The 41 -year-old was nominated for an Oscar for his role in 2015 ‘s The Revenant and has also starred in such films as Mad Max: Fury Road, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises.
Ken Follett, “whove been” accepted for his services to literature, is well known for writing such historical stories as The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End and his best-selling Century trilogy.
“I’m off to Buckingham Palace today, ” the 69 -year-old author told his Chatter admirers on Friday in a post evidencing him boasting a top hat and morning coat.
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