List of recipients of the Royal Victorian Chain

Below is a list of Recipients of the Royal Victorian Chain:

Recipients

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• 1902: George, Prince of Wales (later George V),^[1] Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,^[2] Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark (later Frederick VIII of Denmark),^[2] Prince Carl of Denmark (later Haakon VII of Norway),^[2] Constantine, Duke of Sparta (later Constantine I of Greece),^[1] Prince Heinrich of Prussia,^[1] John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll,^[2] Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse,^[2] Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein,^[1] Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife,^[2] William II, German Emperor,^[2] Carlos I of Portugal,^[1] Frederick Temple^[3]
• 1903: George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,^[2] Victor Emmanuel III of Italy^[1]
• 1904: Nicholas II of Russia,^[4] Franz Joseph I of Austria,^[2] Christian IX of Denmark,^[2] William, Crown Prince of Prussia^[1]
• 1905: Alfonso XIII of Spain,^[5] Abbas II of Egypt,^[6] George I of Greece,^[7] Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne^[8]
• 1906: Prince Arthur of Connaught^[9]
• 1908: Gustaf V of Sweden,^[10] Armand Fallières^[11]
• 1911: Randall Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth,^[12] Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk^[12]
• 1912: Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe,^[13] Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst^[13]
• 1917: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery^[14]
• 1921: Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) ^[15]
• 1923: Cosmo Lang^[16] Crown Prince of Sweden (later King Gustav VI Adolf) ^[15]
• 1925: Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe
• 1927: Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) ^[17]
• 1928: King Amanulla of Afghanistan
• 1930: Prince Takamatsu, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ^[15]
• 1932: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester,^[18] William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland^[19]
• 1934: Prince Paul of Yugoslavia ^[15]
• 1935: Umberto, Prince of Piedmont (later King Umberto II of Italy), Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby,^[20] Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone,^[20] Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer^[21]
• 1936: Prince George, Duke of Kent^[22]
• 1937: Prince Chichibu, Queen Elizabeth,^[23] Queen Mary,^[23] Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram,^[24] King Leopold III of Belgians ^[15]
• 1945: James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn^[25]
• 1946: Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII^[26]
• 1948: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran ^[15]
• 1949: Geoffrey Fisher,^[27] John Weir^[28]
• 1950: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands ^[15]
• 1952: George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon^[29]
• 1953: Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk,^[30] Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort^[30]
• 1955: Crown Prince Olav of Norway, Faisal II of Iraq
• 1957: Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Frederick IX of Denmark
• 1960: Vincent Massey,^[31] Rama IX of Thailand, Charles de Gaulle
• 1961: Mahendra of Nepal
• 1963: Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough^[32]
• 1964: Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton^[33]
• 1965: Crown Prince Amha of Ethiopia
• 1966: Hussein of Jordan, Ayub Khan
• 1967: Faisal of Saudi Arabia
• 1972: Sir Michael Adeane,^[34] Mohammed Zahir Shah
• 1973: Roland Michener^[35]
• 1974: Michael Ramsey,^[36] Margrethe II of Denmark
• 1975: Birendra of Nepal, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• 1980: Donald Coggan^[37]
• 1982: George Cakobau,^[38] Beatrix of the Netherlands
• 1984: Charles Hector Fitzroy MacLean, Baron Maclean^[39]
• 1985: António Ramalho Eanes
• 1986: Juan Carlos I of Spain
• 1987: Fahd of Saudi Arabia
• 1990: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon^[40]
• 1991: Robert Runcie^[41]
• 1992: Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield,^[42] François Mitterrand, Richard von Weizsäcker
• 1994: Harald V of Norway^[43]
• 1997: David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie^[44]
• 2000: Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk^[45]
• 2002: George Carey^[46]
• 2007: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,^[47] King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
• 2010: Sultan Qaboos of Oman^[48]
• 2012: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

References

1. Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) page 416
2. Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) page 415
3. H. M. Spooner, ‘Temple, Frederick (1821–1902)’, rev. Mark D. Chapman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 5 Feb 2012
4. The London Gazette: no. 27711. p. 5775. 6 September 1904.
5. The London Gazette: no. 27803. p. 4107. 9 June 1905.
6. The London Gazette: no. 27807. p. 4251. 16 June 1905.
7. The London Gazette: no. 27859. p. 8643. 1 December 1905.
8. The London Gazette: no. 27866. p. 9172. 22 December 1905.
9. The London Gazette: no. 27916. p. 3655. 25 May 1906.
10. The London Gazette: no. 28134. p. 3311. 5 May 1908.
11. The London Gazette: no. 28141. p. 3991. 29 May 1908.
12. The London Gazette: no. 28508. p. 4770. 27 June 1911.
13. The London Gazette: no. 28580. p. 1047. 13 February 1912.
14. The London Gazette: no. 30111. p. 5462. 1 June 1917.
15. Whitaker's Almanack 1960
16. The London Gazette: no. 32819. p. 3135. 1 May 1923.
17. Whitaker's. Almanack 1947
18. The London Gazette: no. 33831. p. 3573. 31 May 1932.
19. The London Gazette: no. 33836. p. 3946. 17 June 1932.
20. The London Gazette: no. 34119. p. 7. 28 December 1934.
21. The London Gazette: no. 34166. p. 3600. 31 May 1935.
22. The London Gazette: no. 34238. p. 7. 31 December 1935.
23. The London Gazette: no. 34396. p. 3074. 11 May 1937.
24. The London Gazette: no. 343966. p. 3083. 11 May 1937.
25. The London Gazette: no. 37216. p. 4085. 10 August 1945.
26. The London Gazette: no. 37407. p. 12. 28 December 1945.
27. The London Gazette: no. 38493. p. 5. 31 December 1948.
28. The London Gazette: no. 38640. p. 2947. 14 June 1949.
29. The London Gazette: no. 39678. p. 5606. 24 October 1952.
30. The London Gazette: no. 39863. p. 2946. 26 May 1953.
31. The London Gazette: no. 42105. p. 5227. 29 July 1960.
32. The London Gazette: no. 42909. p. 979. 1 February 1963.
33. The London Gazette: no. 43262. p. 1983. 3 March 1964.
34. The London Gazette: no. 45643. p. 4295. 11 April 1972.
35. The London Gazette: no. 46052. p. 9729. 14 August 1973.
36. The London Gazette: no. 46409. p. 11623. 22 November 1974.
37. The London Gazette: no. 48128. p. 3999. 14 March 1980.
38. The London Gazette: no. 49255. p. 1698. 4 February 1983.
39. The London Gazette: no. 49955. p. 16769. 11 December 1984.
40. The London Gazette: no. 52253. p. 13769. 24 August 1990.
41. The London Gazette: no. 52450. p. 2431. 15 February 1991.
42. The London Gazette: no. 52987. p. 11675. 10 July 1992.
43. "Court Circular". The Independent  – via HighBeam (subscription required) . 6 July 1994. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
44. The London Gazette: no. 54984. p. 14236. 19 December 1997.
45. The London Gazette: no. 56024. p. 12689. 10 November 2000.
46. The London Gazette: no. 56749. p. 13695. 12 November 2002.
47. The London Gazette: no. 58519. p. 16987. 22 November 2007.
48. Hardman, Robert (26 November 2010). "Here's how to be a right royal trooper, Kate: Queen's masterclass in flying the flag and doing her duty in the Gulf". Daily Mail. Retrieved 27 November 2010. At last night’s state banquet, the Sultan presented the Queen with a Faberge-style musical egg and a stunning gold vase. In return, she gave him the Royal Victorian Chain, a personal honour reserved for her inner circle.