Jagger was joined at the ceremony with his 92-year-old father and his daughters Karis (32) and Elizabeth (19). He received the honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

Still show a bit of his rebellious nature, Jagger showed up for the ceremony dressed in a designer suit complete with leather lapels and black leather sneakers. 

Jagger denied that accepting the honor was selling out. "I don't think the establishment as we knew it exists any more," he told reporters. He added that honors are nice, "as long as you don't take it all too seriously."

One person that doesn’t seem to share that view is his bandmate Keith Richards. Richards criticized the knighting of Jagger in an interview with British music magazine "Uncut". 

"I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards said in the interview. 

"I told Mick it's a paltry honor ... It's not what the Stones is about, is it?"

Mick fired back and charged Richards with jealousy. 

"I think he would probably like to get the same honor himself," Jagger told reporters.

"It's like being given an ice cream — one gets one and they all want one. It's nothing new. Keith likes to make a fuss."

Jagger’s flame from long ago, singer Marianne Faithful said last year after it was learned that Jagger was to be knighted, that she wasn’t surprised that Jagger accepted the honor. She said that Jagger is "a tremendous snob" and "he always wanted that so much, that's why I'm sort of compassionate about it."

The knighting seemed to have an immediate effect on the aging rock star. "I suppose people will call me 'Sir Mick,'" he joked with reporters, "but 'Sir Michael' has a nice ring to it."

We are still holding out for Sir Lemmy. 

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