Royal Family Order of Great Britain

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Royal family order with the portrait of George IV.

The Royal Family Order of Great Britain and Ireland is a one-class badge of honor intended only for the ruling house.

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Queen Elizabeth II, the royal family orders of King George V and King George VI. bearing. Breast star and collar belong to the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross

The order was donated by King George IV around 1825 and consisted of an oval portrait miniature with the image of the king, the frame of which was set with diamonds and raised by a crown (there are also examples without a crown). The order was worn on a bow in the colors of the Order of the Garter . George IV's successors renewed the order, the image was replaced by a portrait of the respective sovereign. There was the rather strange custom that the kings wore their own image, and the ribbon was exchanged by each new king: Edward VII used a dark blue ribbon with yellow stripes, George V a light blue one and George VI. a pink ribbon. Queen Elizabeth II also renewed this order. It was presented to Princess Diana of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall , among others, with the Chartreus yellow ribbon . The admissions in these medals will not be published in the London Gazette .

Similar orders were also known in other monarchies, but here the sovereign never wore his own image. B. in Russia or Sweden intended primarily for the wife of the sovereign. To this day, Queen Silvia of Sweden wears such a portrait of her husband on festive occasions.

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