OLYMPIC gold medal sailor Hannah Mills has been honoured with an MBE at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Miss Mills, who is originally from Dinas Powys, and won gold at Rio last summer alongside crew partner Saskia Clark, attended the palace this week.

She called the ceremony “nerve-wracking.”

She added: “I wasn’t at all actually until I was stood in a line waiting watching other people thinking ‘am I going to mess this up? - but everyone was very welcoming.”

Following her crewmate’s retirmement, the 29-year-old said Princess Anne asked “if I had had any luck finding a new partner”.

Since Rio, Ms Mills has changed boats and said: “This year is about learning as much as we possibly can - so for me a new boat is exciting, it means I’m upping my skill level - whatever boat I end up sailing I’ll be a better sailor for it.

“It’s just a new challenge and I’m loving it, and I think this first year if you can still be loving your sport and enjoying the training and excited to get fit and everything again then it’s a good place to be because it’s a long cycle - you can’t expect everything to happen in year one.”