The Queen circumvented this when she wanted to honour David Smith, who was a long-serving Secretary to successive Governors-General of Australia, making him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which is in the gift of the Monarch and for services to the Monarch, rather than bestowing a knighthood from an Order which required a nomination by the (British) Government. Many monarchists in Australia considered David Smith's subsequent use the the title 'Sir' to be incorrect, since his knighthood was from a foreign order, believing that he should have used the style 'David Smith, KCVO, AO'. Although The Queen had earlier made Smith a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, that degree did not carry a title, and so the issue did not arise.
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