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	Royal Victorian Chain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Victorian Chain is a British award, instituted in 1902 by King Edward VII as a personal award of the British Monarch (i.e.
		The Royal Victorian Chain does not confer upon its recipients any style or title - in fact, the Chain is not even given a precedence within the British honours system - but it represents a token of highest distinction and greatest esteem from the Monarch.
		The chain is in gold, decorated with motifs of Tudor Rose, Thistle, Shamrock and Lotus Flower (symbolizing England, Scotland, Ireland and India respectively), and a crowned, red enamelled cipher "ERI" (Edvardvs Rex Imperator) (surrounded by a wreath for men), upon which the badge is suspended upon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Victorian_Chain (292 words)

	Royal Victorian Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Victorian Order is an order of chivalry that was established by Queen Victoria on 21 April 1896.
		There is a separate Royal Victorian Chain, which is unrelated to the Order; it was instituted in 1902 by Edward VII.
		In the centre is a medallion bearing Victoria's effigy.This collar is not to be confused with the Royal Victorian Chain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order (1663 words)

	Royal Victorian Chain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		East Chain Topographic Map Shows East Chain the unincorporated settlement, East Chain Lake, and part of East Chain Township.
		The Victorian Web The Victorian Web is the WWW translation of Brown University's Context 61, which serves as a resource for courses in Victorian literature.
		Victorian Era Posters Chain Lightning Posters Victorian Ladies Posters Victorian, Watercolors Posters I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Posters Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974) Posters Royal Tenenbaums, The Posters Royal Chamber, The Posters Doulton, Royal Posters Royal Doulton Posters Penn.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Royal_Victorian_Chain.html (576 words)

	Gongs and Gowns: Honouring Royal Women. by Rafal Heydel-Mankoo
		Royal Family Orders and the Imperial Order of the Crown of India notwithstanding, royal orders are primarily the preserve of males—royal, aristocratic and common.
		King Edward VII established the Royal Victorian Chain in August 1902; however women were not admitted until the year of the coronation of King George VI (1937).
		Men wear the chain around the neck whilst women wear the chain suspended from a bow -- the colours of which are based upon the ribbon of the Royal Victorian Order.
	www.geocities.com /rafalhm/gongs.html (4421 words)

	IRAQ2
		Royal Mausoleum, Adhamiyah), younger twin daughter of H.H. Prince Nasser bin 'Ali Pasha.
		Field Marshal Royal Iraq Army, Admiral of the Fleet Royal Iraqi Navy, and Marshal of the Royal Iraqi Air Force 8/9/1933.
		Field Marshal Royal Iraq Army, Admiral of the Fleet Royal Iraqi Navy, and Marshal of the Royal Iraqi Air Force 2/5/1953.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Iraq/iraq2.htm (1050 words)

	Royal Victorian Order -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Royal Victorian Order is an order of chivalry that was established by (A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally) Victoria on 21 April 1896.
		The Order was created at a time when all honours were bestowed by the Sovereign on the advice of the (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister and other ministers.
		There is a separate (additional info and facts about Royal Victorian Chain) Royal Victorian Chain, which is unrelated to the Order; it was instituted in 1902 by (King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910)) Edward VII.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_victorian_order.htm (1587 words)

	Barleycorn Antiques (LINCOLN UK) Antique Lamps & Victorian Oil Lamps
		The shade is an original Victorian shade with acid etched decoration of flowers and leaves, the colour is clear at the base and graduates to a lemon/green colour at the frilled top.
		A Royal Worcester vase single burner oil lamp standing on a brass base that is decorated with stylised flowers etc. The font is superb hand painted with flowers and leaves the top of the font is shaped this shape has been picked out with blue and gold.
		The shade is a frilled and crimped mercury cranberry and is a Victorian shade.
	www.barleycorn-antiques.co.uk /pages/lamps.html (3383 words)

	Definition of :: roy :: by Spell-Dictionary
		Royal British Legion a national association of ex-members of the armed forces, founded in 1921.
		royal oak a sprig of oak worn on 29 May to commemorate the restoration of Charles II (1660), who hid in an oak after the battle of Worcester (1651).
		Royal Victorian Chain (in the UK) an order founded by Edward VII in 1902 and conferred by the sovereign on special occasions.
	www.spell-dictionary.com /db/roy (462 words)

	royal victorian order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Royal Victorian Order is an order of chivalry that was established by Victoria on 21 April 1896.
		The star is enamelled in the case of Knights and Dames Grand Cross, but is made of frosted silver in the case of Knights and Dames Commanders.
		It is worn in the same fashion as the badge: from a ribbon around the neck in the case of men, and on a bow on the left shoulder in the case of women.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /royal_victorian_order.html (1436 words)

	Royal Victorian Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There is a separate Royal Victorian which is unrelated to the Order; it instituted in 1902 by Edward VII.
		The Royal Victorian Medal shows Victoria's effigy on the obverse the words "Royal Victorial Medal" on a beneath Victoria's Royal and Imperial Cypher on reverse.
		It is worn in the same as the badge: from a ribbon around neck in the case of men and a bow on the left shoulder in case of women.
	www.freeglossary.com /Royal_Victorian_Order (1259 words)

	The Monarchy Today > The Queen's Role > Sovereign as Fountain of Honour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From the reign of Richard II onward, gifts of gold or silver chains to be worn round the neck as a reward for loyal service were frequently given.
		Chains of honour were given to certain officers of the crown as a special mark of distinction; known as 'collars of the King's Livery', such chains were worn as pledges of loyalty.
		Historically, the exchange of Orders between the Sovereign and overseas heads of state tended to be personal and dynastic - particularly during Queen Victoria's reign, when many dynastic marriages contracted by her large family created a network which closely united the dynasties of Europe in the nineteenth century.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page347.asp (757 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Ancient Titles, Offices, Ranks and Surnames
		Members of the royal family had their names (or more often, some diminutive term of endearment such as Tuttu, Don, Titti or Dorhy) suffixed with Manippulu, if they were princes and Goma if they were princesses.
		That is to say that a person called Ahmed Fulu was a slave or a descendant of a slave or a servant of the royal families.
		People of the humblest birth who entered the service of royal households or foreign slaves purchased by the great nobles in the ancient slave markets of Arabia and brought back to the Maldives acquired the rank of Fulu.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /maldives_titles.shtml (3145 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Like all senior members of the Royal Family, the Queen Mother was consulted some time ago about her preferred arrangements and drew up a "guiding principle" for the service and procession.
		As the coffin is borne in procession at the end, with the Queen and members of the Royal Family following behind, massed pipers will play a lament in a gesture to reflect the Queen Mother's devotion to Scotland, the place she always really regarded as home.
		There will be guests from the royal households, as well as her civil organisations, tradesmen and the Lord Lieutenants of the counties in which she lived.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/01/nstat101.xml (740 words)

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		The Queen Mother's insignia - brooches, badges and chains set with fabulous gems - denoting high royal rank were carried before her coffin at Westminster Abbey last night.
		The insignia of the Queen Mother as Grand Master and Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order is gold and enamelled in red, white and blue.
		She was bestowed with the Royal Victorian Chain, a pre-eminent mark of the sovereign's esteem and affection.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/04/09/1018333355787.html (297 words)

	Royal Insight > December 2003 > Mailbox > Page 4
		The Royal Victorian Order was instituted by Queen Victoria as a reward for personal service to the Sovereign and as a mark of royal esteem.
		The Royal Victorian Chain was instituted by King Edward VII in 1902 as a 'pre-eminent mark of the Sovereign's esteem and affection towards such persons as His Majesty specially desired to honour'.
		The Chain does not form part of the Royal Victorian Order and confers no precedence or addition to the style or title of the holder.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page2768.asp (605 words)

	Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
		Victorian filmmakers featured on the discs include Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, Thomas Edison, Cecil Hepworth and Edwin S. Porter.
		Eadweard Muybridge donated and bequeathed an important collection of his work to the the Royal Borough of Kingston, the town where he was born and where he died in 1904.
		The book, published to accompany an exhibition at Kingston Museum, gives details of the collection and is richly illustrated with examples of Muybridge's sequence photographs at Palo Alto, the Animal Locomotion sequences of humans and animals taken at the University of Pennsylvania, and beautiful illustration from the moving image discs used in his Zoöpraxiscope projector.
	www.victorian-cinema.net /news.htm (2058 words)

	Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1866, he entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and received a commission as a lieutenant in the Corp of Royal Engineers two years later.
		His brother King Edward VII granted him the Royal Victorian Chain in August 1902 and his nephew King George V created him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in May 1917.
		Though the name of the Royal House was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the actual family name, as told to Queen Victoria when she had the issue looked into, was Wettin.
	www.portaljuice.com /prince_arthur__duke_of_connaught.html (1454 words)

	Debrett's - British Orders and Decorations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When the Order was revived by King James VII and II in 1687 and by Queen Anne in 1703 it was narrated in the Royal Warrants that the Order had been instituted by “Achaius, King of Scots (of glorious memory)”.
		from Saxon times until the Coronation of King Charles II on great Royal occasions it was customary to confer “a degree of Knighthood” which, from the ceremonies associated with it, became known as the Knighthood of the Bath...
		King Edward VII founded in Aug 1902 the “Royal Victorian Chain”, which is only bestowed on special occasions...
	www.debretts.co.uk /etiquette/orders_and_decorations.html (624 words)

	House of Commons - Public Administration - Written Evidence
		The Garter (and the Thistle) should be retained, but with no further home awards, apart from members of the royal family, and with future grants confined to foreign heads of state.
		The orders were mainly created by royal warrant or letters patent, and are not subject to any act of parliament.
		The current regulations for the orders are introduced by instruments under the royal sign manual, and are not normally published in The London Gazette or elsewhere.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmpubadm/212/212we65.htm (866 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Farewell to a mother, a queen and a symbol of a bygone age
		It was borne atop the Gun Carriage of the King's Troop, Royal Artillery.
		In 2002, there is no king but there is still a King's Troop: the Queen maintained it, in deference to her late father.
		Now that the sun has set and the cool of the evening has come, some of the warmth we absorbed is flowing back towards her." At that the TV cameras caught Prince Charles's lip wobbling, holding back a grandson's tears.
	www.guardian.co.uk /queenmother/article/0,2763,681682,00.html (1119 words)

	ArthurConnaught
		His Royal Highness Field Marshal The Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, KG, KT, KP, GCMG, PC, GCEI, GCB (mil.), GBE (mil.), Royal Victorian Chain, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex was born at Buckingham Palace.
		He later transfered to the Royal Regiment of Artillery and then to the Royal Rifle Brigrade.
		The present facade, which includes the Royal Coat of Arms carved in stone, was added to the front of the building.
	www.geocities.com /henry8jane/ArthurConnaught.html (1378 words)

	Her Majesty
		She died at 3:15 Saturday afternoon, at The Royal Lodge, Windsor.
		As I write this, the QM's casket was taken to the Royal Chapel of All Saints, in Great Windsor Park.
		First it was the hearse, with the Queen Mother's coffin, covered in her Royal Standard.
	www.findadeath.com /Deceased/q/qm/qm.htm (1029 words)

	HM THE QUEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Royal Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or (for ENGLAND); 2nd, or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory gules (for SCOTLAND); 3rd, azure a harp or stringed argent (for IRELAND), the whole encircled with the Garter.
		On a mount vert the Round Tower of Windsor Castle argent, mason sable, flying thereon the Royal Standard, the whole within two branches of oak fructed or and ensigned with the Royal Crown (for the Royal House of WINDSOR).
		In Scotland the Royal Arms depict the Lion of Scotland in the 1st and 4th quarters (as on the Great Seal of Scotland, Scottish official publications and the tabards of the Scottish Officers of Arms).
	www.burkes-peerage.net /Sites/Peerage/SitePages/page62-6a.asp (3098 words)

	What is the Honours system? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Five members of the royal family are Ladies of the Order or Royal Knights, and there are 24 Knights and Lady Companions including three ex-Prime Ministers.
		The Royal Victorian Order (1896) is awarded in recognition of services to the royal family.
		The Royal Victorian Chain (1902) has a current membership of 15, in addition to the Queen.
	www.britainusa.com /faq/showfaq.asp?SID=333 (1167 words)

	Orders and decorations: History (British Empire and Commonwealth)
		The garter badge and motto are said to have been suggested by an incident at a ball in Calais when Joan of Kent (later Princess of Wales) dropped her garter, the King picked it up and and tied it below his knee, saying "Shame on him who thinks evil of it".
		The Star of the Order constitutes the rank star (pip) for officers of the Household Cavalry (Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, Blues and Royals), the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, and Welsh Guards.
		Instituted 25 Mar. 1916 and made retroactive to Aug. 1914, awarded to NCOs and men of the British Army, including the Royal Flying Corps, for individual or associated acts of bravery not of sufficient heroism to merit the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM).
	www.regiments.org /biography/orddec-h.htm (1403 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		When an announcement is made of the Sovereign's intention to confer a life peerage or baronetcy, the recipient may not use the title until the appropriate form of address has been chosen and the Home Office has published a second notification giving details in the London Gazette.
		Because of the large numbers involved it is not possible for all to attend one of the Queen's Investitures.
		The collar chain and badge (The George) of the Order of the Garter can be worth over £50,000, and considerably more if it can be proved that the owner was a particularly outstanding person.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/honours/honours.html (902 words)

	House of Commons - Public Administration - Written Evidence
		But they do share the dual identity that hereditary peerages exhibited until recently: they are both titles of honour (as are knighthoods and baronetcies) and they are also (unlike knighthoods and baronetcies) power positions, since they carry with them membership of the upper house of the British legislature.
		(B) Honours in the sovereign's gift—the Royal Victorian Order and the Royal Victorian Chain; the Order of Merit; the Order of the Thistle; and the Order of the Garter.
		But it might be worth wondering whether it is sensible to have both Companions of Honour and the Order of Merit.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmpubadm/212/212we40.htm (1751 words)

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