King Charles has presented GB News host Anne Diamond with an OBE for her services to public health and charity.
The veteran broadcaster was honoured during the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for her activism, including her campaigning for research into cot death.
The former Good Morning Britain presenter, 69, was all smiles as the monarch presented her with the honour and proudly posed in her vibrant multi-coloured jacket, navy trousers and fascinator for snaps after the ceremony.
Anne had received news of the honour on the same day she was diagnosed with breast cancer back in June.
She had revealed that the award was “particularly special” because it was for her cot death campaign of 1991, following the death of her son Sebastian from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 1990.
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Anne joined with The Lullaby Trust and the Department of Health to launch the Back to Sleep awareness campaign which warned parents that babies should sleep on their backs, not their fronts.
The campaign has been credited with a reduction in deaths.
The star, who became a household name thanks to her popularity as a presenter of daytime TV in the 1980s and 1990s, has added to the Daily Mail that the OBE is her proudest achievement.
After being named in the New Year Honours in December, she said: “This OBE is literally a crowning achievement to everyone who helped me and upon whose ground-breaking research my campaign was based.
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“This is also testament that the media can be a force for good. By the Government’s own report, 80% of parents who got the life-saving advice got it from the TV ads.
“But mostly this is for Sebastian, whom we still miss, and all of those tragically lost lives.”
Anne, who joined fellow honouress Dame Ann Limb and Tanya Steele at the investitures ceremony, revealed in June that she was battling cancer on GB News.
She recalled being given the news by medics on the same day she was awarded an OBE and said it had been “a hell of a journey”.
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