Thursday 30th June 2011
Annie Lennox collects OBE
BBC News
Singer Annie Lennox has collected an OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for her charity work fighting Aids and poverty in Africa.
The former Eurythmics singer, 56, said: "It's quite magical. It's really meaningful to me that it's for charity work.
"To get this acknowledgement means people are listening," she added following the investiture ceremony.
Lennox was accompanied by her daughters Tali and Lola.
"Campaigning has been taking up a great deal of my commitment for quite a few years, and what it means is that there's a significance to what I'm doing - I'm not just working in a void," said the star.