Scottish actor Alan Cumming was honored earlier today with an OBE.  The Order of the British Empire was given to the X-Men star for his services to film, theater, the arts and for his work as a gay rights campaigner.

‘That for me is the most important thing. I have a voice because of my work. I’m loud and I speak my mind,” he said. ”I feel it’s a lucky position to be in – that people want you to speak out for something you want to say anyway.

”My work has enabled me to do something with my opinions for good.”

Alan sported a Cumming Hunting tartan, with nothing underneath! Having just arrived from Australia he was worried he’d faint in front of Princess Anne.

‘(The Princess Royal) was lovely…She asked me if I was getting enough work. I love that.

”I said I had just come back from Australia so if I fainted to not be alarmed.

”She thought that was hilarious.”

He was joined by his husband Grant Shaffer, mother Mary and brother Tom.

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