How does a young American get knighted without doing anything?

Norman Schwarzkopf was given an honourary knighthood after Desert Storm. He was asked by a British journalist whether he would ever use it, and replied rather dryly that everyone he knew already called him "Sir".

Until recently you could have given the Parliamentary Labour Party £1,000,000 and they would have had you knighted that afternoon (Bosh, Bosh, Bosh. Job's a Good'un. Nice doing business with you, Squire), but they were caught with their trousers round their ankles by the press, and can't get away with that any more.

Even if you did get her number, Her Majesty doesn't answer the phone; she has people to do that sort of thing for her.

Unfortunately, even if you own the complete DVD Special Edition Box Sets (Director's Cut) of "Fawlty Towers", "Absolutely Fabulous", "Monty Python", "The Goons", "Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore Live", and "Beyond the Fringe", it doesn't cut any ice with the Awards Board.

I would suggest you marry a British woman for her passport, (especially if you like your women distant, expressionless, and emotionally with-holding until they've had a glass of white wine when their knickers fly off) and start up a factory employing a couple of hundred British Citizens (no longer Subjects), preferably somewhere poor and under-developed. I'd suggest Newcastle Upon Tyne, but even British People can't understand their dialect.

The Queen is not the only person that has the ability to Knight someone. I have worked in the humanitarian world for years and accomplished more than most people doing so. Many like myself are not out for fame and fortune through the media. I'm also part native American with tribal membership in the USA and Canada. The majority of my work has been out of the country through my company which has been known by word of mouth. We do not wish to be in the public eye because the public distorts everything. Those that need to know what we do knows how to reach us.

While it is not a British Knighthood, if you become a Master Mason, and then Join the American York Rite, you can join the Masonic Knights Templar and become an Honorary Knight that way.

For a start the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) does not confer the honorific title "Sir" only a Knighthood (KBE, KCB, KCMG, KG and some other orders of chivalry) confers the honoroific title "Sir". Secondly, an American citizen can only received an honorary knighthood which gives the letters after the name but not the title.

Only certain British Comonwealth citizens can receive a knighthood.

You have to do something to get a knighthood - e.g. Bob Geldof has an honorary knighthood.

Unfortunately their country was built on a slave run economy. This coupled with it being a place for immigrants from all over the world has led to a culture of superiority. It seems that the less time your family have lived in the country the less respect you get. And of course if your family have lived there forever you get even less respect. The more generations of a family that live in America the more of a sense of entitlement they get and feel that others should not be able to follow in their footsteps. Without a constant influx of immigrants they would not have much of a country but they hate to admit this. Older nations seem to be more tolerant

Sir or Dame is only for United Kingdom-Ireland & Scotland.

Not for USA residents, why? It's all about the tax.

They have contrubuted a lot of tax for the country, and the funny part of it some then go and emigrate to the USA once they have have there Knighthood status like Anthony Hopkins.

That you have every episode of Fawlty Towers won't help in this matter.

Only living in UK, Ireland, Scotland, pay a lot of tax and contrebute in Music, film ,Arts or Science and then be lucky she picks you.

How To Get A Knighthood

Americans can not use the honorific of Sir:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4877.asp

"Foreign citizens occasionally receive honorary knighthoods; they are not dubbed, and they do not use the style 'Sir'.

Such knighthoods are conferred by The Queen, on the advice of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on those who have made an important contribution to relations between their country and Britain.

Foreign citizens given knighthoods over the years include Chancellor Kohl, President Mitterrand and Mayor Giuliani of New York."

OBE,MBE,they are all different honors:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page4886.asp

explains the different honors.Only a knighthood confers the title of "Sir" on UK and Commonwealth citizens.

Notice the list of names?These are all men who DID something.In order for you to EARN an honorary title you have to do something WORTHWHILE exceptionally well.

"While in past centuries knighthood used to be awarded solely for military merit, today it recognises significant contributions to national life.

Recipients today range from actors to scientists, and from school head teachers to industrialists.

A knighthood cannot be bought and it carries no military obligations to the Sovereign. "

You also need to be nominated for the honor.

Visit http://www.honours.gov.uk/ for more specifics.

You can not buy a genuine title.

If you're American, you don't get the "Sir" title, sorry. The highest ranks of the OBE are reserved for British nationals; foreign nationals are only able to be honorary knights, not allowed to use "Sir" or "Dame", only the initials of the order after their names. You would need to become a British citizen -- and do something impressive, too, anyway -- to actually be knighted.

You have to do something which contributes to society or that you earn money for the country in a legal way. You would be given an honorary knighthood if you were not born in the U.K.