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Harry Dunn’s Mother Charlotte Charles Receives MBE at Windsor for Road Safety Campaigning

The campaigner says the honour recognises road safety work sparked by her son's death.

Overview

  • The Prince of Wales invested Charlotte Charles with the honour during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.
  • Charles said Harry would be “super proud” and described feeling honoured and humbled by the recognition.
  • Her advocacy followed the 2019 death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who was struck near RAF Croughton by a car driven on the wrong side of the road by then–US State Department employee Anne Sacoolas.
  • Sacoolas pleaded guilty in October 2022 to causing death by careless driving via video link and received an eight-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months.
  • Campaigning by Dunn’s family is credited with road-safety improvements near US Air Force bases and with UK–US adjustments to the diplomatic-immunity anomaly, and Charles has also taken her case to the White House to meet President Donald Trump.