David Beckham says knighthood 'truly humbling' - as rock star and acting great also honoured

David Beckham has called it "truly humbling" and an "emotional moment" to beryllium made a knight successful the King's Birthday Honours.

The erstwhile England skipper receives the honour alongside The Who frontman Roger Daltrey and Oscar-winning histrion Gary Oldman.

Singer and histrion Elaine Paige, novelist Pat Baker, and erstwhile defence caput Penny Mordaunt person been awarded damehoods.

Meanwhile, Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daley and Claudia Winkleman, arsenic good arsenic darts stars Luke Littler and Luke Humphries, volition each get MBEs.

Beckham was made an OBE successful 2003, but present yet becomes Sir David aft being successful the moving for galore years. He gets the honour for his services to athletics and charity.

Sir David was said to beryllium adjacent to a knighthood successful 2014, but reportedly mislaid retired aft HM Customs and Revenue flagged his engagement successful an alleged taxation avoidance scheme.

"Growing up successful eastbound London with parents and grandparents who were truthful patriotic and arrogant to beryllium British, I ne'er could person imagined I would person specified a genuinely humbling honour," helium told PA quality agency.

"To person played for and captained my state was the top privilege of my career, and virtually a boyhood imagination travel true," added the erstwhile Manchester United and Real Madrid star.

Sir David, who precocious turned 50, was seen chatting to the King the time earlier his honour was announced arsenic portion of his relation arsenic an ambassador for the monarch's foundation.

He said he'd been fortunate to "represent Britain astir the satellite and enactment with unthinkable organisations that are supporting communities successful request and inspiring the adjacent generation".

Sir David added: "I'm truthful fortunate to beryllium capable to bash the enactment that I bash and I'm grateful to beryllium recognised for enactment that gives maine truthful overmuch fulfilment.

"It volition instrumentality a small portion for the quality to descend successful but I'm immensely arrogant and it's specified an affectional infinitesimal for maine to stock with my family."

On the euphony front, The Who's vocalist got a knighthood astatine property 81.

Sir Roger - known for hits specified arsenic My Generation and Pinball Wizard - led the Teenage Cancer Trust astatine Royal Albert Hall performance bid for much than 2 decades.

"It's benignant of weird, but I americium profoundly honoured to get this, particularly for the foundation for the Teenage Cancer Trust, and I judge it connected their behalf really, due to the fact that this honour is truly for each unsung heroes," said Sir Roger.

"It's a imagination travel existent for me, but it's particularly a imagination due to the fact that the foundation means truthful much."

TV presenter Tess Daly called her MBE "the top astonishment of my life".

"I don't deliberation I've travel backmost down to world yet," she told PA. "I didn't spot it coming, and it astir didn't hap due to the fact that the missive went to the incorrect address.

"And convey goodness idiosyncratic precise benignant recovered me. And truthful by the clip I got it, I lone had, I deliberation it was 2 oregon 3 days near to judge it."

Her co-star connected Strictly, Claudia Winkleman, said she was "incredibly grateful" to beryllium recognised.

"I volition bargain a chapeau and americium taking my mum [to person the honour]. I americium ridiculously fortunate and volition observe with Tess by doing a paso doble," she said.

West End fable Elaine Page - who has starred successful shows specified arsenic Cats and Evita - was besides honoured for services to euphony and charity.

The vocalist said she was successful "shock" astatine becoming a dame

"I've got each these antithetic emotions coming astatine maine each astatine once," said the 77-year-old. I'm arrogant and I consciousness grateful and I'm thrilled and surprised, and truthful it's been rather a batch to instrumentality in."

Dame Elaine has roles astatine 2 charities - The Children's Trust and The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust, which supports disabled tennis players.

She's besides presented a BBC vigor amusement for much than 20 years.

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More than 1,200 radical from crossed the state were fixed honours successful the latest list.

Eleven-year-old disablement campaigner Carmela Chillery-Watson is the youngest to beryllium recognised aft helping rise much than £400,000 for Muscular Dystrophy UK.

The oldest is 106-year-old William Irwin, laminitis of the Coleraine Winemakers Club, who gets a BEM (British Empire Medal) for services to the community.

However, the apical accolade has been awarded to sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, the antheral down the Angel of the North, who is made Companion of Honour for services to art.

There tin lone beryllium 65 companions astatine immoderate 1 time.

Other notable names connected the database see erstwhile defence caput Penny Mordaunt - who famously had a salient relation holding a sword astatine the King's coronation - and is present a dame; and erstwhile EastEnders histrion Anita Dobson, who gets an OBE.