The Royal Victorian Chain is a decoration instituted in 1902 by King Edward VII as a personal award of the monarch (i.e. not an award made on the advice...

The Royal Victorian Order (French: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished...

The Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) is a decoration established by Queen Victoria in April 1896. A part of the Royal Victorian Order, it is a reward for personal...

orders—the Order of Merit and the Royal Victorian Order — and one personal award of the sovereign – the Royal Victorian Chain. These were created by the sovereign...

thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2021. "Royal Insight: June 2004: Focus: The Order of the Garter". The Royal Household. June 2004. Archived from the original...

Below is a list of recipients of the Royal Victorian Chain: Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) p. 416 Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights...

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...

under-age daughter Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands on 4 April 1892. Royal Victorian Order, founded by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom on 21 April...

include supernumerary members (members of the British royal family and foreign monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively...

of Honour Distinguished Service Order Imperial Service Order Royal Victorian Chain Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia Australian Honours Order...

Indian Empire Indian Merit British India Burma Defunct Royal Guelphic Other Royal Victorian Chain Hereditary peerage Life peerage Privy counsellor Baronet...

Garter, an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, and a Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain, as well as numerous other orders of chivalry...

Indian Empire Indian Merit British India Burma Defunct Royal Guelphic Other Royal Victorian Chain Hereditary peerage Life peerage Privy counsellor Baronet...

insignia of the order is in the form of an oval medallion, surmounted by a royal crown (but, until recently, surmounted by an imperial crown), and with a...

post-nominal letters KMA. However, Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, advised against the new order, primarily because of its...

appointments to the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the Royal Victorian Order, and the Order of Merit. The honours' insignia are then presented...

and those that have had conferred on them the decoration of the Royal Victorian Chain; none of these carries pre-nominal styles. An honorary award is...

Elizabeth II 1989, 17.3 Elizabeth II 1989, 13.2 Elizabeth II 1989, 18.1 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "Honours and Recognition Programs > Canadian National...

the Order of the Crown of India CI Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order GCVO Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire...

Badge of Chancellor of the Royal Victorian Order on leaving office. At the same time he was invested with the Royal Victorian Chain. Peel married Veronica...

the Order of 23 August (1987)  United Kingdom: Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain (23 February 1975) Association honours  Japan: Golden Pheasant Award...

former governor general, former viceregal consort, or member of the Canadian royal family may be appointed as an extraordinary Companion, Officer, or Member...

medal has laurels, the royal cypher, and the Tudor Crown, whereas the Canadian medal displays the royal cypher with the Canadian Royal Crown over a sunburst...

letters for this order are only used within the order itself. The Royal Victorian Chain a personal award of the monarch that is of high status, but does...

of the Garter, 16 May 1892 (expelled in 1915) Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain, 10 August 1902 (expelled in 1915) "EX-RULER OF HESSE DEAD IN GERMANY;...

Queen Queen Mary Clive, Baron Wigram The Queen of Norway Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Princess Beatrice...

senior civil servant, lost both his status of CB and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1975 when he was jailed for corruptly receiving gifts...

armed forces. It was designed and sculpted by Michael Rizzello for the Royal Mint. The CGC, which may be awarded posthumously, is awarded "in recognition...

alone to denote the award of each bar. From September 1916, members of the Royal Naval Division, who served alongside the Army on the Western Front, were...

Kingdom: Grand Collar of the Kingdom of Albania, 1927 United Kingdom: Royal Victorian Chain (RVC), 1927 French Third Republic: Grand Cross of the Legion of...