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Its membership is extremely limited, consisting of the Sovereign, the Prince of Wales—both being members ex officio and gaining membership upon acceding to one of the titles if not already held—and not more than 24 full members known as Companions. Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion.
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, The. 2006. Annual General Meeting in St George's Chapel on Saturday 6 May 2006 at 2:00 pm. Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter, The. 2006. Annual Report 2005/6. Tuch Design.
The badge for Garter Principal King of Arms is the royal arms impaled with St George's Cross encircled by the Garter and surmounted by a crown. The badge for the usher is a knot (like those on the collars of the companions of the order) encircled by the Garter and surmounted by a crown.
Rector of the University of St Andrews 178 John Stirling: 1893–1975 1956 Convener of the Ross and Cromarty County Council 179 George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers: 1886–1965 1956 Former Treasurer of the Household 180 Kenneth Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 12th Lord Kinnaird: 1880–1972 1957 181 Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan: 1895–1977 1957
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Installation of Archduchess Therese of Austria as Princess-Abbess in 1836. The Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies (Czech: Tereziánský ústav šlechtičen), officially the Imperial and Royal Theresian Stift for Noble Ladies in the Castle of Prague, was a Catholic monastic chapter of secular canonesses in Hradčany that admitted women from impoverished noble families from 1753 until 1918.
Cecily was born on 20 March 1469 [3] [4] at Westminster Palace as the third daughter [5] of ten children of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville; [6] [7] being the third child from her parents' ten children, the princess also had two half-brothers from her mother's first marriage to John Grey of Groby: Thomas and Richard Grey.