Meet 13 Other People Who Have Lost Their British Honors Beside Fred Goodwin

The Queen of England has stripped former RBS CEO Fred Goodwin of his knighthood, it was reported earlier today. Goodwin was originally knighted for his contributions to the banking industry in 2004, but that doesn't seem too fitting after RBS' £45 billion taxpayer bailout. But Goodwin isn't the first to lose an honorable British title. People usually lose an honor when convicted of a crime or for political reasons. There have been 34 people since 1995 who have lost the title, according to The Telegraph. When the honours forfeiture committee was set up in 1994 for the purpose of recommendation title cancellations, there had been 15 titles stripped since 1979.
The forfeiture committee recommends the title cancellations to the Queen, who has the sole power to strip individuals of the title. The news is then published and recorded in the London Gazette.
We rounded up some of the most interesting people who've lost their titles and the reasons why.

Anthony Blunt, art historian

Year Knighted: 1956 Year Title Stripped: 1979
Reason: Found to be part of the Cambridge Five spy ring in 1964, which passed information to Soviet Russia during the war.

Allen Stanford, financier

Year Knighted: 2006 (in Antigua)
Year Title Stripped: 2009
Reason: Arrested for running a ponzi scheme worth over $8 billion.

Jean Else, educator/teacher

Year Knighted: 2001
Year Title Stripped: 2011
Reason: Fired from the school for financial irregularities, then later investigated and banned from running a school.
*Else is the only woman to have her Damehood stripped.

Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe

Year Knighted: 1994 (honorary)
Year Title Stripped: 2008
Reason: Britain imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe over human rights abuses in the country.

Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician

Year Knighted: 1929
Year Title Stripped: 1940
Reason: Aiding the Nazis during their invasion and occupation of Norway.

Roger Casement, Irish diplomat and poet

Year Knighted: 1911
Year Title Stripped: 1916
Reason: Treason. He helped organize the the Irish Volunteers, a group of Irish nationalists. He was captured by the British in the Easter Rising in 1916 and hanged.

Lester Piggott, horse jockey

Year Knighted: n/a
Year Title Stripped: 1987
Reason: Piggott spent three years in prison for tax evasion.

Kim Philby, British intelligence officer

Year Knighted: 1946
Year Title Stripped: 1965
Reason: Part of the Cambridge Five Spy ring that passed British intelligence on to Soviet Russia.

Prince Naseem, professional boxer

Year MBE Given: 1999
Year Title Stripped: 2006
Reason: Arrested for crashing his car while driving 90mph. The driver of the car he hit broke every major bone in his body and suffered brain damage.

Jack Lyons, businessman

Year Knighted: n/a
Year Title Stripped: 1991
Reason: Charged for stock-market manipulation related to shares of Guinness.

Albert Henry, former leader of Cook Islands

Year Knighted: 1974
Year Title Stripped: 1978
Reason: Committing electoral fraud.

Terry Lewis, former Australian police commissioner

Year Knighted: 1986
Year Title Stripped: 1993
Reason: Arrested and imprisoned on charges of police corruption, found as the result of the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

Nicolae Ceasescu, former leader of Communist Romania

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Year Knighted: 1978
Year Title Stripped: 1989
Reason: His rule over Communist Romania was brutal and oppressive, and resulted in an impoverished and poor nation.