<P> Commonwealth citizens not subjects of the Queen and foreigners may be made Honorary Members . Queen Elizabeth II has established the custom of awarding an honorary GCB to visiting (republican) heads of state, for example Gustav Heinemann and Josip Broz Tito (in 1972), Ronald Reagan (in 1989), Lech Wałęsa (in 1991), Censu Tabone, President of Malta, in 1992, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George H.W. Bush (in 1993), Nicolas Sarkozy in March 2008, in 2012, former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono . Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Slovenian President Dr Danilo Türk Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and South African President Jacob Zuma (Royal Heads of State are instead usually made Stranger Companions of the Order of the Garter). Foreign generals are also often given honorary appointments to the Order, for example: Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Marshal Joseph Joffre during World War I; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, King Abdul - Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur during World War II; and General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell after the Gulf War . A more controversial member of the Order was Robert Mugabe, whose honour was stripped by the Queen, on the advice of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, on 25 June 2008 "as a mark of revulsion at the abuse of human rights and abject disregard for the democratic process in Zimbabwe over which President Mugabe has presided ." </P> <P> Honorary members do not count towards the numerical limits in each class . In addition the statutes allow the Sovereign to exceed the limits in time of war or other exceptional circumstances . </P> <P> The Order of the Bath now has six officers: </P> <Ul> <Li> a Dean: John Hall, Dean of Westminster (ex officio) </Li> <Li> a King of Arms: Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce </Li> <Li> a Registrar and Secretary: Iain Henderson </Li> <Li> a Deputy Secretary: Alexander Matheson of Matheson, yr . </Li> <Li> a Genealogist: Thomas Woodcock </Li> <Li> the Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod: Charles Vyvyan </Li> </Ul>

Installation of knights grand cross of the order of bath at st paul’s cathedral