Arise Sir Tom: Her Majesty knights 100-year-old fundraising war hero
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Queen Elizabeth knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognising the100-year-old for lifting Britain's spirits during the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic by raising millions of pounds for health workers.
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The World War Two veteran raised a record 33 million pounds ($41 million) by walking 100 laps of his garden with the aid of a walking frame in April in the run-up to his landmark birthday.
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.
Moore, in a dark suit, stood holding onto a wheeled walking frame.
"Thank you very much," Moore told the queen. "Wonderful," the queen said, before greeting Moore's family. "What an amazing amount of money you have raised."
The Yorkshireman became a symbol of British endurance in the face of the adversity of the coronavirus crisis and cheered many with his promise that "the sun will shine again".
"I could never have imagined this would happen to me," Moore said in a message posted on Twitter before received the ancient accolade.
"It is such a huge honour and I am very much looking forward to meeting Her Majesty The Queen. It is going to be the most special oRead More – Source
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