Royal Order of Victoria and Albert

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The German Empress Victoria with the Order, along with the Prussian Luisen-Orden
The German Empress Victoria with the Order, along with the Prussian Luisen-Orden

The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted in 1862 by Queen Victoria, and enlarged on 10 October 1864, 15 November 1865, and 15 March 1880. No awards were made after the death of Queen Victoria. The order had four classes and was only granted to women. For the first three classes, the badge consisted of a medallion of Queen Victoria and the Albert, the Prince Consort, differing in the width and jewelling of the border as the classes descend, whilst the fourth substitutes a jewelled cipher. All four were surmounted by a crown, which was attached to a bow of white moire ribbon. The honour conferred no rank or title upon the recipient, but recipients were entitled to use the post-nominal letters "VA".

The last holder of the Order, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, died in 1981. Like other British Orders which have fallen into disuse, it has never been formally abolished. Every British Soverign since Victoria has become Sovereign of the Order upon their accession to the throne. The Current Sovereign Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom has been Sovereign of the Order since 1952.

Contents

List of recipients from 1893.

The four grades of the Order.
The four grades of the Order.

  • Hon Lady Hamilton-Gordon
  • The Viscountess Chewton
  • Edith Codrington, Lady Codrington
  • The Lady Biddulph
  • Lady Eliz. Phillipa Biddulph
  • Hon Flora C.I. Macdonald
  • Hon Mrs Ferguson
  • Hon Horatia Stopford
  • Hon Emily Sarah Cathcart
  • Lady Cust
  • Hon Mrs Magdalen Wellesley
  • Hon Lady Ponsonby
  • Hon Ina Erskine McNeill
  • Lady Geraldine Somerset
  • Hon Harriet Lepel Phipps
  • Mrs Georgina Townshend Wilson

British honours system
Current Orders
Garter | Thistle | Bath | St Michael and St George | Distinguished Service | Royal Victorian | Merit | Imperial Service | British Empire | Companions of Honour
Old Orders

St Patrick | Royal Guelphic | Star of India | Indian Empire | British India | Indian Merit | Crown of India | Victoria and Albert | Burma
Other Honours and Appointments
Hereditary peer | Life peer | Privy Counsellor | Baronet | Knight | St John | ADC | Other orders and decorations
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