Prince Harry is honored at the 21st annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards during the glitzy Beverly Hills ceremony hosted by John Travolta

Prince Harry’s work as a British Army veteran and pilot will be honored at this year’s 21st annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards.

The decorated event – ​​hosted by John Travolta this Friday in Beverly Hills, California – will see the royal family inaugurated alongside other space icons including Fred George and Steve Hinton.

The Duke of Sussex, 39, undertook two tours of duty in Afghanistan as a forward air controller and as an Apache helicopter pilot.

It is understood that his work in establishing the Invictus Games Foundation will also be celebrated, according to the awards’ website. It is not clear whether Harry or his wife Meghan Markle will attend the ceremony.

The event – ​​produced by the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy – commemorates ‘notable people with extraordinary achievements in aviation’ – and the ‘Legends’ meet annually to honor emerging leaders in the industry.

Other 2024 inductees include Fred George, Steve Hinton and Marc Parent. The winners are Mark Burns, Laurans A. Mendelson, Kyle Clark, Linden S. Blue, Lance Toland and Lauren Sánchez.

The event website also highlights Harry’s work as a “humanitarian, mental health advocate and environmentalist,” and details his work with Travalyst, Sentebale, African Parks, WellChild, BetterUp the Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder – and The Archewell Foundation .

It also praised the duke’s “compassion, vulnerability and unflinching honesty” in his memoir Spare.

The news comes at a time when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are being so ridiculed in Hollywood that their rebranding could run into trouble, culture and royal experts told MailOnline today.

The couple were the butt of a joke again on Sunday night when Golden Globes host Jo Koy roasted them in front of an audience of A-listers.

The American comedian said the couple “got paid millions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing – and that’s only because of Netflix.” The comment was met with much laughter in the room, including one from Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos.

Koy also sparked laughter when he joked that Imelda Staunton’s portrayal of the Queen in The Crown was “so good that Prince Harry called her and asked her for money.”

Netflix is ​​one of the couple’s main sources of income after they signed a multi-year deal worth $100 million (£78 million) with the streaming network in September 2020.

The decorated event – ​​hosted by John Travolta this Friday in Beverley Hills, California – will see the royal family inaugurated alongside other space icons including Fred George and Steve Hinton. Harry pictured in September

Their podcast deal with Spotify was canceled after just one season of Meghan’s series Archetypes, with company director Bill Simmons later calling them “frauds.”

Sunday marked the latest joke on US television for the past year at the couple’s expense, including an episode of South Park last February entitled ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’, which featured the couple on a publicity blitz to promote Harry’s book ‘Waaagh to promote.

They were also the target of a cutaway sketch in Family Guy last October, when a butler gave Harry his “millions from Netflix for… nobody knows what” — before Meghan says, “Honey, time to do our daily $250,000 sponsored Instagram post to do for Del Taco.’ Harry responds: ‘I shouldn’t have allowed the made-up nonsense to stand.’

At the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills on Sunday, Koy said: ‘Succession has nine nominations. Just a great show about a rich, white, dysfunctional family, all scheming – oh wait, that’s The Crown. I’m sorry.

‘How great was Imelda Staunton in The Crown, wasn’t she great? Her portrayal of the Queen was so good that Prince Harry called her and asked her for money.

“Like I said, I didn’t write all this. That’s not mine.

“It turns out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will still get millions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing. And that’s just from Netflix.’

The comment about asking for money comes after Harry told Oprah Winfrey during the couple’s bombshell interview in 2021 that his father, then Prince Charles but now King Charles III, “literally cut me off financially” when they resigned as a year earlier senior royals.

And the latest joke comes as some believe former Suits actress Meghan is currently assessing a potential second phase of her Hollywood career – although this time it’s related to production rather than acting.

Royal author Phil Dampier said today that mainstream ridicule in the US was making life difficult for the California-based Sussexes – with Americans now ‘having had enough of their constant moaning’.

The couple were the butt of a joke again on Sunday night when Golden Globes host Jo Koy roasted them in front of an audience of A-listers.

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was pictured at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills on Sunday, where he laughed during a joke about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by host Jo Koy

He told MailOnline: ‘A few years ago Harry and Meghan wouldn’t have been humiliated in this way, but they are now the butt of jokes, even among Hollywood’s woke enthusiasts. If you become a ridiculous figure, you’re in trouble.

‘When they first moved to America they were a popular couple, but people have seen through them and are tired of their constant nagging. This is the latest in a growing list of Mickey Takes, following South Park and other shows.”

He told how the couple had ‘lost’ their Spotify contract and ‘ran out of ideas at Netflix’, saying they are a ‘source of entertainment even for the kind of left-of-center audience who would previously have been sympathetic to them ‘.

Mr Dampier said the couple “desperately needed a new direction in 2024 or they could nosedive” as their sources of income dried up amid their “huge operating costs” and safety expenses.

He added: ‘They expect criticism from the press and social media, but attacks from the showbiz world show how far they have fallen.’