Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia Firth has dramatically torn up her royal honour and returned it to the Palace in fury at what she branded Britain’s “appeasement” of Donald Trump. The 56-year-old style activist, who was married to the Oscar-winning actor for 22 years till their break up in 2019, shared an explosive Instagram video on Wednesday displaying herself ripping up her MBE certificates. She mentioned she was sending the medal again to St James’s Palace after seeing the US president “appeased and honoured” throughout his go to to the UK final week.

In a letter accompanying the transfer, Livia raged: “As a result of I can’t reconcile these two positions, I’ve shredded my honour and I’m returning it to sender.” She additionally posted photos of her MBE medal in its field and her handwritten observe, mistakenly dated October 24, 2025, fairly than September 24. She accused ministers of legitimising Trump with a “scary and cowardly show of appeasement”.

Livia continued: “As I write this, we see that horrible excuse of a human (referred to as Trump) in full movement on the UN Normal Meeting, his toxic rhetoric amplified and legitimised. Final week’s show confirmed me nothing of these values I assumed King Charles upheld – or its spirit.

“Slightly, a daunting and cowardly show of appeasing somebody who stands for the obliteration of the pure world and probably the most weak individuals on earth.”

The Italian-born campaigner was recognised with the honour in 2019 for companies to the style trade, after co-founding sustainability consultancy Eco-Age and pioneering the “Inexperienced Carpet Problem”.

Her work put ethically made couture centre stage at awards season, dressing stars together with Meryl Streep and Emma Watson.

Livia mentioned she accepted the award “on behalf of the numerous garment employee activists who had educated and supported me,” regardless of her long-standing opposition to the British Empire.

In her newest letter, she added: “Though I stand towards the British Empire and remnants of that poisonous system, I accepted the honour on behalf of the numerous garment employee activists who had educated and supported me.”

She additionally paid tribute to King Charles, praising his “many years battling on behalf of social and environmental justice”, however mentioned she may not reconcile her respect for him together with his authorities’s therapy of Trump.

She signed off the letter as “Livia Giuggioli (Firth)”.

Born in Rome, Livia studied movie earlier than assembly Colin on the set of the BBC drama Nostromo in 1996, the place she labored as a manufacturing assistant. The pair married a 12 months later and had two sons, Luca and Matteo.

The wedding collapsed in 2019 after Livia admitted to an affair with Italian journalist Marco Brancaccia throughout a short separation in 2015–16.

The scandal, together with her unique declare that Marco had stalked her, finally led to the couple’s closing breakup.