An investiture ceremony was held at St James’s Palace for the first time in four years on Thursday.

A couple who founded a children’s cancer charity in their daughter’s memory, and the leader of the first crew of Royal Navy submariners to row the Atlantic, were among those honoured at St James’s Palace for the first time in four years.

Abbie’s Army founders Amanda and Ray Mifsud and Lieutenant Commander Hugo Mitchell-Heggs were made MBEs by the Princess Royal on Thursday.

The investiture ceremony was held at the palace for the first time since August 2021 as Windsor Castle, where they usually take place, is hosting the German state visit this week.

Mr and Mrs Mifsud, from Ashford, Kent, founded Abbie’s Army in 2012 after their six-year-old daughter Abbie died of a diffuse intrinsic pon

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