Editing Neil MacGregor (section)

==Personal life==
MacGregor was listed in ''[[The Independent]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 2007 list of "most influential gay people"<ref name=Independent>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |title=The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay |date=6 May 2007 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-pink-list-2007-the-iiosi-annual-celebration-of-the-great-and-the-gay-447627.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907103532/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-pink-list-2007-the-iiosi-annual-celebration-of-the-great-and-the-gay-447627.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 September 2008 |location=London}}</ref> and was single {{asof|2010|01|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite news |author=Susanna Rustin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jan/02/neil-macgregor-british-museum-history |title=The greatest exhibition you could have &#124; Culture |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2 January 2010 |access-date=29 May 2011 |location=London}}</ref>

On 4 November 2010, MacGregor was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]] by Queen [[Elizabeth II]].<ref name="RH">{{cite web |url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2010/MrNeilMacGregorappointedtotheOrderofMerit4November.aspx |last=Buckingham Palace |title=Mr Neil MacGregor appointed to the Order of Merit, 4 November 2010 |publisher=The Royal Household |access-date=4 November 2010}}</ref> On 25 March 2013 MacGregor was appointed an Honorary [[Officer of the Order of Australia]] (AO) by the [[Governor-General of Australia]] [[Quentin Bryce]], "for service to promoting Australia and Australian art in the United Kingdom".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mr Robert Neil MacGREGOR |publisher=Australian Government - Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - Honours|date=15 February 2013| url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1147716|id=1147716}}</ref>

In April 2023, MacGregor was one of the 22 personal guests at the ceremony in which former [[Chancellor of Germany|German Chancellor]] [[Angela Merkel]] was decorated with the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Grand Cross of the Order of Merit]] for special achievement by [[President of Germany|President]] [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] at [[Schloss Bellevue]] in Berlin.<ref>Kati Degenhardt (17 April 2023), [https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_100160680/angela-merkel-dankt-ihrem-mann-er-hatte-vieles-auszuhalten-.html Merkels emotionaler Dank: "Er hatte Vieles auszuhalten"] ''[[T-Online]]''.</ref>