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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 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. Like other British Orders which have fallen into disuse, it has never been formally abolished. Every British Sovereign 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.
Recipients
List of recipients.
First Class
- HIM The Empress Frederick of Germany (Princess Royal)
- HRH Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (Helena)
- HRH The Princess of Wales (Alexandra)
- HRH Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorne)
- HRH Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg)
- HIRH The Duchess of Edinburgh (Grand Duchess of Russia)
- HM The Queen of Denmark (Louise)
- HM The Queen Marie of Hanover
- 1878: HRH HM The Queen of the Belgians (Marie Henriette) (on the occasion of the Silver wedding of the King and Queen)
- 1879: HRH The Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn (on her marriage)
- HGDH Princess Louis of Battenberg (Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine)
- HRH The Duchess of Albany (Helena)
- 1885: HRH Princess Louise of Wales (Duchess of Fife)
- HRH Princess Victoria of Wales
- HRH Princess Maud of Wales
- HM The Queen Regent of Spain (Maria Christina)
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- HRH Princess Louise Marie of Prussia, Grand Duchess of Baden
- HIM The Empress-Queen Augusta Victoria of Germany and Prussia
- HM The Queen of Romania (Elisabeta)
- 1896: HIM The Empress of Russia
- 1898: HM The Queen of the Netherlands
Second Class
- HIH Princess Elisabeth of Hesse (Grand Duchess Serge of Russia)
- HRH Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meinigen
- HRH Princess Henry of Prussia
- HRH Princess Viktoria of Prussia (Princess Adolphe of Schaumburg-Lippe)
- HGDH Princess of Leiningen
- HH Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein
- HRH Princess Sophie of Prussia (Crown Princess of Greece)
- HRH Princess Margarete of Prussia
- HH Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (Princess Aribert of Anhalt)
- HRH Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh
- HRH Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh
- HRH Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh
Third Class
- The Dowager Duchess of Wellington
- The Dowager Lady Churchill
- The Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe
- The Lady Waterpark
- Duchess Dowager of Atholl
- The Viscountess Clifden
- The Dowager Countess of Mayo
- Dowager Countess of Erroll
- Lady Abernethy
- Caroline Augusta, Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe
- Frances, Countess of Gainsborough
- Dowager Lady Southampton
- The Dowager Duchess of Buccleuch
- 1880: The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough ("in recognition of her unremitting and invaluable exertions in mitigating the misery and distress in Ireland")
- The Dowager Duchess of Bedford
- 1881: The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn
- The Duchess of Roxburghe
- 1885: The Countess Spencer
- The Duchess of Buccleuch
- The Lady Ampthill
- 1889: The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
- Viscountess Downe
- The Countess of Antrim
- 1892: The Marchioness of Salisbury
- The Lady Abercromby
- Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn
Fourth Class
- Hon Lady Hamilton-Gordon
- The Viscountess Chewton
- Edith Codrington, Lady Codrington
- The Lady Biddulph
- Hon Caroline Fanny Cavendish
- 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
- 1889: Lady Geraldine Somerset ("as a mark of appreciation of her long and devoted service to the Duchess of Cambridge")
- Hon Harriet Lepel Phipps
- Mrs Georgina Townshend Wilson