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As a result, on Wednesday 12th October my family and I were invited to Buckingham Palace for my investiture and through this blog I will try to explain the wonderful experience I had that day.
As you can imagine, prior to the formal announcement and investiture there was some correspondence with myself and believe it or not the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood – the body who are responsible for organizing investitures – had to confirm that I actually wanted the award! Incredibly, I do believe that over the years some people have declined receiving their award.
On the day I was allowed to take three guests with me which made things easy as it meant I would be going with my wife and our two teenage children.
On the morning we travelled from our hotel to the Palace by taxi, arriving at about 10am.
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