Queen elizabeth ii knighted him with the very sword that queen elizabeth i had used almost 400 years earlier to knight sir francis drake after he had sailed round the world for the first time 伊丽莎白女王二世手持宝剑敕封他为爵士，将近400年前，伊丽莎白一世也曾手持同一把宝剑，把爵位赐予完成首次环球航行的弗朗西斯?德雷克爵士。
