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Queen Victoria in 1897, the year after she founded the Royal Victorian Order. Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies (appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry, the Order of ...
Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.
Australian Honours Order of Precedence; Orders, decorations, and medals of Barbados; Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada; Canadian order of precedence (decorations and medals) Fijian honours system; Jamaican honours system; Orders, decorations, and medals of New Zealand; New Zealand Honours Order of Precedence
Knight/Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO/DCVO; Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE/DBE; Knight Bachelor [note 3] Companion of the Order of the Bath CB; Companion of the Order of the Star of India [note 1] CSI; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG; Companion of the Order of the Indian ...
The order of precedence for male members of the royal family is: [1] The sovereign Charles III; Whether male or female. The Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. William, Prince of Wales; i.e. the sovereign's eldest son. The sovereign's younger sons Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Ordered according to their births. The sovereign's grandsons ...
A peer derives his precedence from his highest-ranking title; peeresses derive their precedence in the same way, whether they hold their highest-ranking title in their own right or by marriage. The ranks in the tables refer to peers rather than titles: if exceptions are named for a rank, these do not include peers of a higher rank (or any peers ...
Order of precedence in Scotland; Decreet of Ranking of 1606; Singapore order of precedence; South African military decorations order of wearing; South Korean order of precedence; Spanish order of precedence; Sri Lankan order of precedence; Swedish order of precedence; Swiss order of precedence
The Royal Victorian Chain a personal award of the monarch that is of high status, but does not confer on the recipient any title or post-nominal letters, nor is it included in the order-in-council setting out the order of precedence for the wear of honours, decorations, and medals.