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    Re: Order of Victoria and Albert Archived Message

    Posted by Nellie on February 13, 2012, 10:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Order of Victoria and Albert"


    This pic is clearer to see the badge on the hip



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    : Order worn with a white sash
    : I have used various sources for posting
    : about this Order in the past. Heres is one
    : story from Royal Service, Volume II by
    : James Risk, Henry Pownall, David Stanley,
    : John Tamplin with Stanley Martin, Third
    : Millenium Publishing in association with
    : Victorian Publishing, 2001
    :
    : " After 1880 there were no further
    : changes in the arrangement of the Order
    : during the rest of the reign. Nevertheless,
    : an interesting idea did come up for
    : discussion. In many foreign ladies' Orders
    : the Badge was worn to a sash for the First
    : Class decoration and suspended to a bow on
    : the left shoulder for the Second Class. Of
    : these the Russian Order of St Catherine was
    : a striking example, and the Portuguese St
    : Isabella another. Both of these
    : distinctions the Queen herself had received
    : almost fifty years before. Now Her Majesty
    : became concerned that the First Class
    : Victoria and Albert worn on the shoulder by
    : the British princesses did not show up very
    : well compared with the striking sashes of
    : the Russian and Portuguese Orders. The idea
    : of using a sash for the Family Order had a
    : certain appeal. At this point the Prince of
    : Wales was asked to look over the Rules and
    : Regulations and give an opinion. On 19
    : February 1888 Sir Henry reported that the
    : Prince 'didn't much like the idea of a Grand
    : Cordon because the Order of Victoria and
    : Albert as he saw it was unique in being the
    : only (United Kingdom) Order worn on the
    : shoulder'. The Queen was not particularly
    : pleased with this reply and was disposed to
    : argue the point. She had her way, and
    : members of the First Class were allowed to
    : wear the V.A. Badge from a sash two and one
    : quarter inches in width on ceremonial
    : occasions, and from a bow on lesser
    : occasions. HRH the Duchess of Connaught
    : wore her V.A. from a sash at the Coronation
    : of King Edward VII, at the opening of the
    : first Parliament of the Union of South
    : Africa in 1910 and on other occasions in
    : accordance with the Ninth of the Rules and
    : Regulations of the Order. At the State
    : Opening of Parliament in the United Kingdom
    : on 14 February 1901, HRH Princess Louise,
    : Duchess of Argyll, is recorded as wearing
    : the Order from a sash. "
    :
    : Queen Alexandra wearing the Order with a
    : white sash
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