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Livia Giuggioli, a sustainable fashion campaigner and the former wife of the actor Colin Firth, has torn up her honorary MBE in protest over Donald Trump's state visit to the UK and his poisonous rhetoric".

Hailed the queen of the green carpet", Giuggioli was among the recipients of honorary British awards to foreign nationals in 2019 for services to sustainable fashion.