Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
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Royal Order of Victoria and Albert The four grades of the Order
Awarded by the Sovereign, on the advice of Government Type Royal Family Order Ribbon White Eligibility Female members of the British Royal Family and female courtiers Status Defunct; not awarded since the death of Queen Victoria, 1901 Post-nominals VA Ribbon of the Order
The Royal Order of Victoria and Albert was a British Royal Family Order instituted on 10 February 1862[1] by Queen Victoria , and enlarged on 10 October 1864, 15 November 1865, and 15 March 1880. No award was made after the death of Queen Victoria.
The order had four classes and was only granted to female members of the British Royal Family and female courtiers . For the first three classes, the badge consisted of a medallion of Queen Victoria and 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 silk moiré 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.
Recipients
First Class
British Royal Family
Foreign
Second Class
British Royal Family
Foreign
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Charlotte, The Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Meinigen (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Viktoria, Princess Adolphe of Schaumburg-Lippe (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Marie Amelie, The Duchess of Hamilton, Princess of Baden
Princess Marie Louise, Princess Aribert of Anhalt (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Sophie, The Crown Princess of Greece (the Queen's granddaughter, later Queen of Greece)
Princess Margaret, Princess Frederick Charles of Hesse (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (the Queen's granddaughter)
Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (the Queen's granddaughter, later Queen of Spain)
Household
Third Class
Fourth Class
Lady Hamilton-Gordon
Edith Codrington, Lady Codrington
Adelaide Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph
Lady Elizabeth Phillipa Biddulph
Flora C.I. Macdonald
Hon Mrs. Ferguson
Hon Horatia C. F. Stopford
Hon Emily Sarah Cathcart
Lady Cust
Mrs Magdalen Wellesley
Lady Ponsonby
Ina Erskine McNeill (Duchess of Argyll)
1889: Lady Geraldine Somerset ("as a mark of appreciation of her long and devoted service to the Duchess of Cambridge")
Harriet Lepel Phipps
Caroline Fanny Cavendish
Mrs. Georgina Townshend Wilson
Lady Cowell
Hon. Mrs. Mallett
Hon. Mrs. Grant
Ethel H. M. Cadogan
Mrs. John Haughton
Sources
See also
References
^ British Imperial Calendar, 1900
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"Obituary". Obituary. The Times (30343). London. 4 November 1881. col F, p. 16.
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"The Dowager Lady Churchill". Obituaries. The Times (36335). London. 26 December 1900. col E, p. 3.
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"Court Circular". Court and Social. The Times (32607). London. 28 January 1889. col F, p. 9.
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