Just when you thought Patrick Stewart could not possibly get any more British, the Queen decides to give him a knighthood. You know the guy must be an amazing actor to get knighted in Britain after playing a Frenchman for seven years. Or maybe all those Shakespearean roles gave him sufficient gravitas to overcome even that.

Anyway, far better Stewart than other dubious M.B.E.s like Stephen Spielberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Billy Graham. Next up: Alan Rickman? Rickman could manage to look snarky even with Excalibur being tapped on his shoulders. Or how about Colin Firth? Pretty please?

By the by, the list of people who declined the knighthood is also pretty illustrious: it contains Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, William Butler Yeats, Stephen Hawking, and David Bowie (!) just to name a few.