Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke gets MBE honour from Prince William for her charity work

Emilia Clarke and her mother Jennifer were made MBEs for the work they did on spreading awareness about brain injuries.

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Emilia Clark and her mother Jennifer, Co-Founders and Trustees, SameYou, are made Members of the Order of the British Empire by Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England. (AP)

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"From Westeros to Windsor, a real pleasure presenting @emilia_clarke and her mum Jennifer with their honours today for their charity work with @sameyouorg supporting brain injury recovery care," the Prince and Princess of Wales said in an Instagram post. “Congratulations to all of today’s recipients!” (AP)

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"It was such an honor personally, but more importantly, we started the charity because the consequences of brain injury are just so unknown," Emilia Clarke's mother, Jennifer, said in an interview after the ceremony. (AP)

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"To have an award like this… cherry on the cake," Clarke added. “I'm going to get my photo taken because of this award. And people are going to say, 'Why is this person, who we recognize, got this award?' And we're going to say, 'It's for brain injury recovery.'” (AP)

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Emilia suffered two aneurysms in 2011 and 2013, which she wrote about in a 2019 essay for the New Yorker. (AP)