Emma Thompson apparently only accepted her damehood for the jewellery

As of June this year, actor Emma Thompson can officially call herself Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
But, she told Seth Meyers on Late Night, she accepted the honour mainly because wanted to secure a nice piece of royal metal for herself.
"You can choose to say: 'Well, of course we don't have an empire anymore and thank God because it was [a] ghastly, colonial, racist, dreadful, undertaking on every level,' and actually have some moral principle about it," Thompson told Meyer