Welsh communications chief recognised in special honours list

The honours have been given for services after the death of the Queen in 2022

Author: Adam FawcettPublished 25th Mar 2023

A communications chief for the Welsh government has been recognised in a special honours list.

Iona Wyn Turner, from Cardiff, is Head of External Communications, and has been handed the Member of the Royal Victorian Order for her role in the late Queen Elizabeth's funeral in 2022.

The honours list also featured RAF flight crew who transported the Queen's coffin from Scotland to London, coffin bearers, senior managers from the household and Government, and the late Queen's stud groom Terry Pendry, who held the reins of the monarch's pony Emma as the funeral cortege entered Windsor Castle.

Awards under the RVO are in the King's gift and are bestowed independently of Downing Street to people who have served the monarch or the royal family in a personal way.

She has been officially handed the award for "services on the Demise of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II".

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