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** Judith Anderson was credited as "Dame Judith Anderson" in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]''
** Judith Anderson was credited as "Dame Judith Anderson" in ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]''
** [[Julian Fellowes]] got a full peerage.
** [[Julian Fellowes]] got a full peerage.
* Be a hugely popular and very long-lasting pop music phenomenon: Sir Cliff Richard, Sir [[The Beatles|PaulMcCartney]],<ref>All Beatles earned MBEs, but only Paul was knighted</ref> Dame [[Vera Lynn]], Sir [[Elton John]], Sir [[The Rolling Stones|Mick Jagger]], Sir [[Tom Jones]], Dame [[Shirley Bassey]]... You won't find any of them using their title on an album cover except the latter, who is apparently subject to Ben Kingsley Syndrome: she must at all times be referred to as "Dame Shirley" or more puzzlingly "The Dame" (which seems to be approximately a case of confusing a damehood with a peerage: a man calling himself "the Knight" would sound very weird, wouldn't it?) - most [[egregious]]ly her [http://www.dameshirleybassey.com/ website] not only uses "DSB" as her initials now, but has listed The Dame appearing alongside "Elton John" [[Double Standard|shorn of his equivalent 'Sir']].
* Be a hugely popular and very long-lasting pop music phenomenon: Sir Cliff Richard, Sir [[Paul McCartney]],<ref>All Beatles earned MBEs, but only Paul was knighted</ref> Dame [[Vera Lynn]], Sir [[Elton John]], Sir [[Mick Jagger]], Sir [[Tom Jones]], Dame [[Shirley Bassey]]... You won't find any of them using their title on an album cover except the latter, who is apparently subject to Ben Kingsley Syndrome: she must at all times be referred to as "Dame Shirley" or more puzzlingly "The Dame" (which seems to be approximately a case of confusing a damehood with a peerage: a man calling himself "the Knight" would sound very weird, wouldn't it?) - most [[egregious]]ly her [http://www.dameshirleybassey.com/ website] not only uses "DSB" as her initials now, but has listed The Dame appearing alongside "Elton John" [[Double Standard|shorn of his equivalent 'Sir']].
* Sell ''a lot'' of computer programs, in the case of William S. Gates III, OBE, former CEO of Microsoft.
* Sell ''a lot'' of computer programs, in the case of William S. Gates III, OBE, former CEO of Microsoft.
* Give the government or governing party a lot of money. Baronetcies were originally always purchased. Even without direct payment, rich people were always more likely to receive any honour, partly because some honours required the holder to live in a certain way (knights, for instance, were originally military officers who had to afford a horse, armor, grooms, servants, etc.) and because poor people wouldn't be able to do any of the things that would bring them to the sovereign's attention. (To be fair, they wouldn't likely be interested in doing any of those things either, since the attitude of the poor of the time was that it was best to keep one's head down and not be noticed.) Officially the grant of titles or honours in exchange for donations to the government, political parties or individuals has been illegal since the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925, which was introduced after a major scandal involving the near-open sale of titles by [[David Lloyd George]]'s Liberal administration. However, there have been strong public and media suspicions about the number of party donors who have been granted honours by both Labour and Conservative governments in the last thirty years or so. Pissing away vast quantities of money, oddly enough, can work (Sir Fred Goodwin), [http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/goodwin-knighthood-decision but only temporarily.]
* Give the government or governing party a lot of money. Baronetcies were originally always purchased. Even without direct payment, rich people were always more likely to receive any honour, partly because some honours required the holder to live in a certain way (knights, for instance, were originally military officers who had to afford a horse, armor, grooms, servants, etc.) and because poor people wouldn't be able to do any of the things that would bring them to the sovereign's attention. (To be fair, they wouldn't likely be interested in doing any of those things either, since the attitude of the poor of the time was that it was best to keep one's head down and not be noticed.) Officially the grant of titles or honours in exchange for donations to the government, political parties or individuals has been illegal since the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925, which was introduced after a major scandal involving the near-open sale of titles by [[David Lloyd George]]'s Liberal administration. However, there have been strong public and media suspicions about the number of party donors who have been granted honours by both Labour and Conservative governments in the last thirty years or so. Pissing away vast quantities of money, oddly enough, can work (Sir Fred Goodwin), [http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/news/goodwin-knighthood-decision but only temporarily.]
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