Royal Family Order of George V | |
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Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Royal Family Order of George V (below that of George VI) | |
Awarded by King George V | |
Type | Royal Family Order |
Country | United Kingdom |
Ribbon | Pale blue |
Eligibility | Female members of the British royal family |
Criteria | At His Majesty's pleasure |
Status | Defunct; not awarded since the death of George V |
Ribbon of the Order |
The Royal Family Order of George V is an honour that was bestowed on female members of the British royal family by King George V.
Queen Elizabeth II was the last surviving recipient when she died on 8 September 2022.
Appearance
The order consists of a miniature of the king in naval uniform set in a crowned oval diamond frame and suspended from a pale blue ribbon. It was provided in four different sizes: the largest version was bestowed on the King's wife and mother, the next largest went to his daughter and daughters-in-law, his sisters and his aunts; a smaller version was given to his granddaughters and the smallest to a number of other female relations.
List of known recipients
Size 1:
- Queen Mary, the King's wife
- Queen Alexandra, the King's mother
Size 2:
- Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, the King's daughter
- Louise, Princess Royal, the King's sister
- Princess Victoria, the King's sister
- Queen Maud of Norway, the King's sister
- Princess Christian, the King's paternal aunt
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the King's paternal aunt
- Princess Beatrice, the King's paternal aunt
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, the King's paternal aunt by marriage
- Mary, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the King's paternal aunt by marriage
- Princess Helen, Duchess of Albany, the King's paternal aunt by marriage
- Elizabeth, Duchess of York, the King's daughter-in-law
- Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, the King's daughter-in-law
- Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the King's daughter-in-law
Size 3:
- Princess Elizabeth of York, the King's granddaughter
- Princess Margaret of York, the King's granddaughter
Size 4
- Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the King's first cousin
- Princess Arthur of Connaught, Duchess of Fife, the King's niece
- Lady Maud Carnegie, the King's niece
- Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge, the King's sister-in-law
- Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden, the King's first cousin
- Lady Patricia Ramsay, the King's first cousin
See also
- Royal Family Order of George IV
- Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
- Royal Family Order of Edward VII
- Royal Family Order of George VI
- Royal Family Order of Elizabeth II
- Royal Family Order of Charles III
References
- ^ Risk, James; Pownall, Henry; Stanley, David; Tamplin, John (2001). Royal Service (Volume II). Lingfield, Surrey: Third Millennium. pp. 13–43.
- Photograph at National Portrait Gallery.
- ^ Vickers, Hugo (1994). Royal Orders. Boxtree. p. 147. ISBN 9781852835101.
- Patterson, Stephen (1996). Royal Insignia: British and Foreign Orders of Chivalry from the Royal Collection. London: Merrell Holberton. p. 144. ISBN 9781858940250. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
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