Arise Sir Tom: Queen Elizabeth knights 100-year-old fundraising captain

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Windor, England: Queen Elizabeth knighted Captain Tom Moore on Friday, recognising the 100-year-old for lifting Britain's spirits during the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic by raising millions of pounds for health workers. Image Credit: AFP

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The World War Two veteran raised a record 33 million pounds ($41 million) by walking 100 laps of his garden with the aid of a walking frame in April in the run-up to his landmark birthday. Image Credit: AFP

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At an open-air investiture at Windsor Castle, the 94-year-old queen smiled as she dubbed Moore on both shoulders with her knighting sword, which previously belonged to her father, George VI. Image Credit: AFP

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Moore, in a dark suit, stood holding onto a wheeled walking frame. Image Credit: AFP

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"Thank you very much," Moore told the queen. "Wonderful," the queen said, before greeting Moore's family. Image Credit: AFP

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"What an amazing amount of money you have raised." The Yorkshireman became a symbol of British endurance in the face of the adversity of the coronavirus crisis and cheered many with his promise that "the sun will shine again". Image Credit: AFP

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"I could never have imagined this would happen to me," Moore said in a message posted on Twitter before received the ancient accolade. Image Credit: AFP

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L) presents the insignia to 100-year-old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore during an investiture to confer the honour of knighthood upon him at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London. Image Credit: AFP

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"It is such a huge honour and I am very much looking forward to meeting Her Majesty The Queen. It is going to be the most special of days for me." Moore, who served in India, Burma and Sumatra during World War Two, quipped earlier this year that having a knighthood would be funny because he would be Sir Thomas Moore - a reference to the Tudor statesman Sir Thomas More. Image Credit: AFP

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The monarch has been sheltering at Windsor Castle, the oldest permanently inhabited castle in the world, since March. Image Credit: AFP

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