knighthood

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Flaunting their knighthood as a mark of status but discarding it the moment it requires true honor, they treat their vows only as an invented tradition, a set of rituals to legitimize their own power.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were given a damehood and knighthood respectively.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

The only other regius keeper to have received a knighthood since the garden's inception in 1670 was Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

Andrew will also lose his Order of the Garter, the most senior knighthood in the British realm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Like other sons of noble family, he would be sent away from his mother and father to live in the household of another knight, where he would learn all the ways of knighthood.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli