Gillian Anderson was accepted into the Order of the British Empire in 1990.
 After Anderson became famous, the brewery named one of their beers after her  a Belgian-style farmhouse ale called "Gillian"
 Margaret Thatcher later described the mindset she believed had befallen Britain's political leaders after Suez where they "went from believing that Britain could do anything to an almost neurotic belief that Britain could do nothing", from which Britain did not recover until the successful recapture of the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982

