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The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally by the monarch and recognises personal service to the monarchy, the Royal Household , royal family members, and the organisation of important royal events.
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 ...
The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally by the monarch and recognises personal service to the monarchy, the Royal Household, royal family members, and the organisation of important royal events.
The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally by the monarch and recognises personal service to the monarchy, the Royal Household , royal family members, and the organisation of important royal events.
This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Royal Victorian Order. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients. The main article for this category is Royal Victorian Order .
Queen Victoria appointed 19 Knights Grand Cross, plus an additional 28 honorary Knights Grand Cross, between the order's institution and her death on 22 January 1901; of those 19, six were to Princes of the United Kingdom—her own children, grandchildren or other close relatives—and a further seven to those already holding a peerage. [9]
In 1915 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile, [42] and in 1917 the Grand Cordon of the Order of Mohammed Ali. [43] He was made a Knight of the Venerable Order of St John in 1919. [44] He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1935. [45] He was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of East Lothian. [46]
Master of the Household to the Grand Duke of Baden. Appointed on the occasion of the Duke of Connaught's visit to Karlsruhe (for the purpose of investing the Grand Duke of Baden with the Order of the Garter in the King's name, and of representing the King at the Celebration of the Golden Wedding of the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden) [88]