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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.
The order of precedence for male members of the royal family is: [1] The sovereign HM The King; Whether male or female. The Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. HRH The Prince of Wales; i.e. the sovereign's eldest son. The sovereign's younger sons The Duke of Sussex; Ordered according to their births. The sovereign's grandsons HRH Prince ...
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 ...
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
Within the same Order, precedence is accorded to that individual who received the honour earlier. Not all orders have the same number of ranks. The Order of Merit, the Order of the Companions of Honour, the Distinguished Service Order and the Imperial Service Order are slightly different, being single-rank honours, and have been placed at ...
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 ...
Knight/Lady of the Order of the Thistle KT/LT; Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath* GCB; Member of the Order of Merit OM (Civil Division and Military Division) Knight/Dame of the Order of Australia [4] AK/AD; Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George* GCMG; Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ...
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 ...