WINDSOR, ENGLAND - Queen Elizabeth knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday , recognising the 100-year-old for lifting Britain's spirits during the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic by raising millions of pounds for health workers.
At an open-air investiture at Windsor Castle, the 94-year-old queen smiled as she dubbed Moore on both shoulders with her knighting sword, which previously belonged to her father, George VI."Thank you very much," Moore told the Queen."What an amazing amount of money you have raised." "I could never have imagined this would happen to me," Moore said in a message posted on Twitter before received the ancient accolade.
Moore, who served in India, Burma and Sumatra during World War II, quipped earlier this year that having a knighthood would be funny because he would be Sir Thomas Moore - a reference to the Tudor statesman Sir Thomas More.
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