Pageant master Bruno Peek has been recognised in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours

Pageant master Bruno Peek is “deeply honoured” to have been decorated for a third time by the Queen, this time in the Jubilee Honours.

The first Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West looks on (right) as Bruno Peek helps Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to light the Trafalgar Weekend Beacon during her visit to Nelson's flagship HMS Victory in Portsmouth, Friday 21 October 2005 on the 200th anniversary of the famous naval victory over France and Spain at Trafalgar. Chris Ison/WPA/PA.

The 61-year-old from Gorleston has been made a Lieutenant of The Royal Victorian Order, for co-ordinating an international Jubilee event which saw 4,000 beacons lit across the world, with Mr Peek sharing the stage with The Queen as she lit a huge beacon to mark her 60 years on the throne.

The award will sit nicely alongside his OBE in 2000 and his MVO – member of the Royal Victorian Order – which he received in 2002.

And to top it all off, the announcement came on his birthday.

Mr Peek said: “I am absolutely chuffed. It is so special as only the Queen can give this award, rather than being advised by the government.

“It is for all the people who helped out, that is important to say. If people don’t take part, you don’t have any event. This is a personal gift from the Queen, so I am deeply honoured indeed.” Mr Peek has guided pageants and events across the country and in Europe and Sri Lanka.

In recent years, he was a key figure in The Fly a Flag for Our Armed Forces initiative and the Great Poppy Party Weekend and was featured in the EDP’s weekend magazine as he prepared for the Diamond Jubilee.

Born in King’s Lynn to Polish parents, he was placed in a children’s home when he was 13-months-old and adopted by an English couple at the age of four-and-a-half.

In 1988, Poland awarded him the Order of Polonia Restituta (OPR), meaning the letters after his name now read OBE MVO OPR and, after the Jubilee Honours announcement, LVO.

The leading event organiser is now looking forward to seeing Her Majesty again at Buckingham Palace to receive his latest medal. It will be a top hat and tails job, which I do enjoy wearing,” said Mr Peek.

joe.wlkes@archant.co.uk