Meghan Markle's aide who played a key role in the her wedding to Prince Harry has been honoured by the Queen.
Clara Loughran, nee Madden, was last night made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.
The prestigious award, which recognises distinguished personal service to members of the monarch's family, was revealed in the New Year's Honours list.
Clara, who is the Duke of Duchess of Sussex's senior programme coordinator, was previously revealed as the 'mystery woman' who handed Meghan her wedding flowers as she arrived at St George's Chapel, Windsor.
She also helped with the couple's 2018 wedding plans and public engagements, ensuring their diary was kept running smoothly.
And the 33-year-old from New Zealand, accompanied the royal couple on their tour of Australia, Fiji and Tonga.
She previously jumped ship from Prince William and Kate Middleton's household to be the Sussexes' projects manager.
She is also said to have made such a great impression on William and Kate that when they met her parents in 2014, Clara's mother revealed afterwards: "William said to me that Clara is the star of the office."
Natalie Barrows, assistant private secretary to Kate Middleton, and Lee Dobson, head valet to Prince Charles, were also among those to be awarded a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.
Meanwhile, the Queen made her private secretary Sir Edward Young a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO).
In his role Sir Edward acts as the channel of communication between Downing Street, and Commonwealth nations where the monarch is head of state, and the Queen.
He has worked for the royal household for 15 years and has been in his present post since September 2017, succeeding Sir Christopher Geidt.
Sir Edward has served as assistant then deputy private secretary to the Queen having joined the royal household in 2004.
He previously worked for Granada as head of corporate communications and for Barclays, where he held a range of financial and executive roles.
Awards under the RVO are in the Queen's gift and are bestowed independently of Downing Street to people who have served the monarch or the Royal Family in a personal way.
Also recognised is Professor Charles Mackworth-Young who from 2006 to 2018 was medical director and chairman of the medical committee at the private King Edward VII's Hospital.
He is made a Commander of the RVO.
The hospital is where the Royal Family have been treated for decades and the Duke of Edinburgh was recently discharged from the medical institution after spending four nights being treated for an undisclosed but pre-existing condition.
The Queen's National Hunt racing adviser Sir William Oswald, who is already a Knight Commander of the RVO, has been made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order by the monarch.
