Overview

• In a Sept. 24 Instagram video, the environmental advocate tore up her MBE certificate and condemned what she called the UK's “appeasement” of President Trump during last week’s state visit.
• She said she is returning the medal to the Central Chancery at St James’s Palace and posted photos of the boxed insignia and a handwritten letter that was mistakenly dated October.
• Giuggioli received the honor in 2019 for her sustainable‑fashion work and has said she accepted it on behalf of garment‑worker activists despite discomfort with the British Empire’s legacy.
• Her statement criticized the Windsor Castle banquet and military pageantry and said the royal reception undermined values she believed King Charles championed.
• The move drew both support and pushback online, with some defending royal protocol, and on Sept. 26 she publicly called out a misogynistic troll as the backlash grew; Colin Firth has not commented.