GSK's Em­ma Walm­s­ley grant­ed dame­hood by Queen Eliz­a­beth II

Glax­o­SmithK­line CEO Em­ma Walm­s­ley is adding a roy­al ti­tle to her name. In Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s an­nu­al Birth­day Ho­n­ours — which came a bit late this year due to the pan­dem­ic — Walm­s­ley was dubbed a dame.

The Birth­day Ho­n­ours are in­tend­ed to rec­og­nize “out­stand­ing achieve­ments” across the UK. This year, about a third of the awards were giv­en to “he­roes” of the pan­dem­ic, ac­cord­ing to The Guardian. Dames are equiv­a­lent in sta­tus to knights — a ti­tle earned by Walm­s­ley’s pre­de­ces­sor An­drew Wit­ty in 2012.

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