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People stripped of a British Commonwealth honour

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Andrew Albert Christian Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a younger brother of King Charles III. Andrew was born second in the line of succession to the British throne and is eighth as of 2026.
Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Kim Philby
KGB mole for the Soviet Union (1912–1988)
Roger Casement
Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)
Prince Henry of Prussia
Member of the House of Hohenzollern (1862–1929)
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and Soviet spy (1907-1983)
Phil Taylor
English darts player (born 1960)
Naseem Hamed
Naseem Hamed, nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002. He held multiple featherweight world championships between 1995 and 2000, and reigned as lineal champion from 1998 to 2001. In 2015, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The Ring magazine awarded Hamed an honorary featherweight title in 2019 to acknowledge his dominance of the division and the multiple champions he defeated; he is the only former world champion in any division thus far to receive this honour.
Wiley
English rapper and record producer
Stuart Hogg
Retired Scottish rugby union player
Chin Peng
Malaysian communist, OBE (1924-2013)
Allan Kemakeza
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands
Lester Piggott
British champion jockey (1935–2022)
Albert Henry
Cook Islands politician (1907-1981)
Allen Stanford
Chairman of Stanford International Bank (SIB), convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison
Dario Gradi
Footballer and football manager (born 1941)
Richard Brandram
British military personnel (1911-1994)
McKeeva Bush
Caymanian politician (born 1955)
Stuart Hall
English former media personality and sex offender
Jonathan Vance
Canadian army general
Russell Williams
Canadian convicted murderer and former colonel of the Canadian Armed Forces
Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant
British politician (1863-1937)
Eyre Coote
British general and politician (1759-1823)
Cecil L'Estrange Malone
British politician
Anthony Bailey
British-born Irish public relations consultant and diplomat (born 1970)
Peter Fitzroy Godber
Hong Kong police officer and criminal
Paula Vennells
British businesswoman and priest (born 1959)
Fred Goodwin
Scottish chartered accountant and former banker who was CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Vicky Pryce
Greek economist (1952-)