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The sovereign of the United Kingdom may award a royal family order to female members of the British royal family, as they typically do not wear the commemorative medals that men do. The same practice is in place in the royal families of Norway , Sweden , Denmark , the Netherlands , Thailand , and Tonga .
This is a list of living British royal family members who, through royal descent or marriage, currently hold the rank of Prince or Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are 18 living princes and princesses by birthright, and a further 6 women who are princesses by marriage.
Maria Theresa and her family celebrating Saint Nicholas, by Archduchess Maria Christina, in 1762. Like all members of the House of Habsburg, Maria Theresa was a Catholic, and a devout one. She believed that religious unity was necessary for a peaceful public life and explicitly rejected the idea of religious toleration.
Born four years after Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice of York, the elder daughter of Prince Andrew, had once been the highest-ranking female royal family member in the order of succession.At the ...
The Royal Family Order depicts the King wearing the ceremonial day uniform of a Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet with the collar of the Order of the Garter, the Royal Victorian Chain, the riband of the Royal Victorian Order, the badges of the Order of the Bath and Order of Merit and medals.
Family Waldegrave Susan Katharine Hussey, Baroness Hussey of North Bradley , GCVO ( née Waldegrave ; born 1 May 1939), known as Lady Susan Hussey , is a British noblewoman who served as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II and as a Lady of the Household from September to November 2022 under King Charles III .
Bottom left: Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands for 58 years from 1890 to 1948, is the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom. Bottom right: Margrethe II was Queen of Denmark for 52 years, from 1972 until her abdication in 2024; she is the most recent female monarch of a sovereign state.
The royal family have thanked well-wishers who have sent them over 100,000 letters to Buckingham Palace alone in the past year. In a post shared to Twitter/X, it was revealed that the messages ...