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Time servers rewarded in King’s Birthday honours

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Time servers rewarded in King’s Birthday honours

Not many music gongs.

Alex Beard (pic), CEO of the Royal Ballet and Opera since 2013, becomes Sir Alex.

David Pickard who ran the BBC Proms for 9 years gets an OBE.

Ann Atkinson, former artistic director of the North Wales International Music Festival, is an MBE.

Likewise soprano Gabriella Di Laccio, a gender-equality activist.

Stuart Worden, longstanding principal of The BRIT School is OBE.

Roger Daltrey, 81, of The Who, is knighted.

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