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Captain Sir Tom said it was “the most special day for me”.
Captain Sir Tom Moore has been knighted in the Queen’s first official engagement in person since closure.
The investiture to honor the 100-year-old, which raised more than £ 32 million for NHS charities, was held in a “one-time ceremony” at Windsor Castle.
He has been recognized for walking more than 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
Captain Sir Tom, originally from Keighley, West Yorkshire, said it was “the most special day for me”.
“I am absolutely overwhelmed,” he said,
“This is such a high award and also to get it from Her Majesty, what more could you ask for? This has been an absolutely magnificent day for me.”
“The money [raised] It is very useful but you only have one Queen and when you receive a message from the Queen there is no value that can be assigned to that. “
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Captain Sir Tom said it had been an “absolutely exceptional day”.
The Queen personally praised Captain Sir Tom and said, “Thank you so much, an incredible amount of money you raised.”
In May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a special nomination for the war veteran to be knighted.
Buckingham Palace believes it is the first time that the ceremony has been held in a strictly socially distanced format.
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The queen spent about five minutes talking to Captain Sir Tom and his family.
The Queen used the sword that belonged to her father, George VI, to bestow the Single Knight insignia on Captain Sir Tom.
Their arrival was heralded by the sound of bagpipes played by the Queen’s piper, Pipe Major Richard Grisdale, of The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Previously, Her Majesty, the Duke of Edinburgh and other close relatives attended the unannounced wedding of her granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, with Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a nearby chapel.
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The ceremony took place in the Windsor Castle ring.
Other Royal investments have been suspended during the pandemic and those scheduled for Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh were postponed in June and July.
Captain Sir Tom joined the ceremony with his family: his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore, his son-in-law Colin Ingram, his grandson Benjie and his granddaughter Georgia.
Mrs. Ingram-Moore said: “It is the most sensational day, of all the things that Tom has been honored for this is really the icing on the cake.”
Captain Sir Tom, who was awarded the honorary title of colonel on his 100th birthday, had initially set out to raise £ 1,000 for NHS charities by repeatedly walking an 82-foot (25m) loop of his garden.
But he eventually raised £ 32,794,701 from over one and a half million followers.
