Stephen Fry, Carey Mulligan, Gareth Southgate and Myleene Klass are among scores of famous names to be recognised in the New Year Honours. Honours have gone to a host of Team GB athletes ...

Among the high-profile honours recipients, including actors Stephen Fry and Carey Mulligan, as well as authors Kazuo Ishiguro and Jacqueline Wilson, were a few more controversial picks.

Carey Mulligan knew she wanted to be part of The Ballad of Wallis Island from the moment she read the script. "I just loved it and thought it was so moving, funny, beautiful—it made me cry," she ...