Honours and Decorations
- SMOM: Sovereign Order of Malta
- Grand Master (2008)
- Knight of Justice (1991)
- Member (1977)
- Austria: Grand Star of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2012)
- Commonwealth realms: Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice of the Venerable Order of Saint John (14 December 2010)
- Croatia: Knight Grand Cross of the Grand Order of King Tomislav (12 October 2006)
- Italy: Knight Grand Cross with Collar Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (27 October 2008)
- Latvia: Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Three Stars (14 October 2008)
- Monaco: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Charles (14 October 2009)
- Portugal: Grand Collar of the Order of St. James of the Sword (2010)
- Romania: Grand Cross with Sash of the Order of the Star of Romania (2008)
- United Kingdom: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (June 1998)
- House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Knight Grand Cross of Justice with Collar decoration of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George
- House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: Knight of the Order of St Januarius
- United Kingdom: Territorial Decoration
- United Kingdom: Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)