Arise, Queen of the Palace
Fallon Sherrock, one of the top players in the women’s game, has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
Sherrock, who has become a leading figure in the game since her successes at the 2020 World Championship, was revealed as being on the list on Saturday 16th June.
In receiving her honour, she joins Trina Gulliver, John Lowe and Eric Bristow as darts players with the accolade, one of the most regarded a monarch can bestow.
Awarded for her services to the sport, she was one of a number of public figures recognised in the list, the first birthday honours list since His Majesty took to the throne.
Commenting on Twitter after the list was announced, the 28-year-old said: “I am honoured and overwhelmed to have been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to darts.”
“To have received this level of recognition for my contribution to the game I love is beyond my wildest dreams.”
“I never considered that I would ever receive such an esteemed honour and beyond grateful.”
Sherrock also reacted to the news after her night at the Modus Super Series, where she revealed to presenter Chris Murphy that the news had come as a shock.
Whilst Fallon is not the only arrowsmith to be honoured with such an award, it is not something to be sniffed at and has certainly come at an earlier point in her career than Bristow, Lowe and Gulliver’s honours.
There has, for example, been backlash to rugby league player and Motor Neurone Disease campaigner Kevin Sinfield’s lack of a knighthood following a Daily Express campaign to lobby for one.
Following his teammate and friend Rob Burrow’s diagnosis with the life-limiting illness, Sinfield has spent the last few years aiming to raise awareness of the condition through charity fundraising.
The Express highlighted that of the seven rugby players to receive knighthoods, none played the league variety of the sport, all coming from the union code.
Some have drawn lines to rugby league’s Northern and working class roots as a justification for why it has received less royal attention.
The fact is the process remains shrouded in secrecy, so any such conjecture is just that.
But, for a sport which remains on the fringes of the British establishment and continues to jostle for growing attention, it is a sign that our achievements are being recognised.
It all makes this honour for one of the sport’s stalwart servants all the sweeter.
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