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Baldrick has been knighted !
Just breaking on BBC News.
Looks like he really did have a cunning plan. 
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queens-birthday-honours-arise-sir-baldrick--tony-robinson-knighted-just-a-cbe-for-blackadder-8659793.html
As Baldrick once said: “It’s all right, Blackadder, you don’t have to curtsy or anything.” Tony Robinson, the diminutive actor, presenter and political activist who rose to fame in the 1980s as the put-upon manservant in the Blackadder series, is now Sir Tony.
His knighthood is one of more than 1,000 awards that make up the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, announced last night. The reward is for a combination of public and political service.
Yet Rowan Atkinson, whose title character, Edmund Blackadder, bullied, shoved and ordered Baldrick about throughout the various series, has been made only a CBE, the next-highest order on the list, for “services to drama and charity”.
Sir Tony, 66, said he was “thrilled, flattered and a little gobsmacked” to get the honour, adding: “I also pledge that from this day on I’ll slaughter all unruly dragons, and rescue any damsels in distress who request my help.” Atkinson, 58, said his CBE came as a “genuine surprise and is a great honour”.
As Baldrick once said: “It’s all right, Blackadder, you don’t have to curtsy or anything.” Tony Robinson, the diminutive actor, presenter and political activist who rose to fame in the 1980s as the put-upon manservant in the Blackadder series, is now Sir Tony.
His knighthood is one of more than 1,000 awards that make up the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, announced last night. The reward is for a combination of public and political service.
Yet Rowan Atkinson, whose title character, Edmund Blackadder, bullied, shoved and ordered Baldrick about throughout the various series, has been made only a CBE, the next-highest order on the list, for “services to drama and charity”.
Sir Tony, 66, said he was “thrilled, flattered and a little gobsmacked” to get the honour, adding: “I also pledge that from this day on I’ll slaughter all unruly dragons, and rescue any damsels in distress who request my help.” Atkinson, 58, said his CBE came as a “genuine surprise and is a great honour”.
