{"id":8846,"date":"2026-04-07T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/8846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:55:20","slug":"deafblind-uk-chair-receives-obe-from-hrh-princess-anne-at-windsor-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/8846\/","title":{"rendered":"Deafblind UK chair receives OBE from HRH Princess Anne at Windsor Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs have been released that show the chair of Deafblind UK, Robert Nolan, receiving his Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, at Windsor Castle. <\/p>\n<p>Nolan became only the second deafblind person ever to receive an OBE when the 2026 investiture ceremony took place on 14 January. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aop.org.uk\/ot\/news\/2026\/01\/07\/eye-care-community-recognised-in-new-year-honours-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He received the OBE as part of the 2026 New Year Honours List.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            Deafblind UK chair, Robert Nolan, receives his OBE from Princess Anne, The Princess Royal, at Windsor Castle on 14 January 2026&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>            \u00d7<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/robert-nolan-during-investiture.jpg\" alt=\"Princess Royal and Robert Nolan during his investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>British Ceremonial Arts<\/p>\n<p>            1 \/ 3  \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Princess Royal and Robert Nolan during his investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle<\/p>\n<p>                            <a class=\"gallery-large-next\" data-slide=\"1\">\u276f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            \u00d7<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lm-nolan-wife.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Nolan, with wife Louise, at the ceremony\"\/><\/p>\n<p>British Ceremonial Arts<\/p>\n<p>            2 \/ 3  \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Robert Nolan, with wife Louise, at the ceremony<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"gallery-large-prev\" data-slide=\"0\">\u276e<\/a><br \/>\n                            <a class=\"gallery-large-next\" data-slide=\"2\">\u276f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            \u00d7<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nolan-gallery-kids.jpg\" alt=\"Robert and Louise Nolan and their and children, Myfanwy, Joshua and Rebecca, outside Windsor Castle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Nolan<\/p>\n<p>            3 \/ 3  \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>Robert and Louise Nolan and their and children, Myfanwy, Joshua and Rebecca, outside Windsor Castle<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"gallery-large-prev\" data-slide=\"1\">\u276e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nolan lives with Type 2 Usher Syndrome, and has been the chair of Deafblind UK since 2018. In total, he has spent 26 years volunteering with the charity. <\/p>\n<p>Through various fundraising events he has raised, alongside his wife Louise, more than \u00a380,000 for Deafblind UK. <\/p>\n<p>When the 2026 New Year Honours List was published on 29 December 2025, Nolan said: \u201cI see this honour as a celebration not only of my contribution but of the talent and resilience that is found in the deafblind community as whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lead image: Robert Nolan at a Deafblind UK roundtable event, held in the House of Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographs have been released that show the chair of Deafblind UK, Robert Nolan, receiving his Order of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4438,4437,4440,4439,4435,4434,4436,5,6,4441],"class_list":{"0":"post-8846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-deafblind-uk-chair","9":"tag-deafblindness","10":"tag-hrh-princess-anne","11":"tag-obe","12":"tag-optometry-today","13":"tag-ot","14":"tag-robert-nolan","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-windsor-castle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116365185671730583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}