how can a regular person become an honorary consul?

Answer 1

Contact your home country government. Some of them will be open to this, particularly if they have no representation where you live.

here is an example from Australia:
Appointment of Honorary Consuls
3.1 The Australian Government will accept the appointment of Honorary Consuls if it is confident there is a need for the services to be provided by such officers. It will not agree to the appointment of honorary consular officers to meet the political or honorific imperatives of the sending government. Accordingly, when a country proposes to establish a new post headed by an Honorary Consul, or seeks to replace a long serving Honorary Consul, Protocol Branch will ask for comprehensive information on the range and volume of business to be conducted by the post, and the powers to be vested in the Head of Post by the sending government. The questionnaire which appears at Appendix 7 of the Department's Protocol Guidelines indicates the kind of information required.

3.2 A nominee for appointment as an Honorary Consul in Australia will normally be an Australian citizen or permanent resident who has some substantial connection with the sending State. He or she must reside in the city where the consular jurisdiction is seated. Unless there are special circumstances, establishment of consular posts outside State and Territory capital cities will not be approved. The nominee must be of sound character and should enjoy a good reputation in the local community. He or she should have the capacity to communicate and maintain good relations with the local authorities in the consular district. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in consultation with the relevant State or Territory Government authorities, will consider the personal qualities of each nominee and may reject a nomination where it has doubts about the nominee’s suitability.

3.3 To minimise the possibility of a conflict of interest, either real or perceived, the appointment of Federal or State Government office holders as Honorary Consuls is not considered appropriate.

3.4 The Australian Government favours accreditation of either career officers or honorary officers, but not both, to individual consular posts.

3.5 Should an Honorary Consul’s position become vacant, the Department will allow up to two years for another person to be nominated and installed. If the position concerned is for a Head of Post, and if it remains vacant for more than two years, the Department will deem the post to have closed.

Answer 2

Yes, but there are rules!

1. You must be very rich and donate generously to the party that is in power.

2. You must be very rich and have a really good buddy that has direct contract with a congressmen or better yet the president.

3. You must be very rich and throw good cocktail parties, because that is all that an honorary consul does.

Answer 3

Well in Europe you have to be appointed as a honorary consul

Answer 4

political appointment lot of as*s kissing and parties to throw around flew one of them for sometime real cheap skate too

Answer 5

Was your great Grandmother the Kings bit on the side.. or did she bonk a Kennedy.. Or are you a generous Billionaire ? No - then you have no chance..