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    Re: Queen Victoria's orders Archived Message

    Posted by Torkel on February 7, 2015, 11:47 am, in reply to "Queen Victoria's orders"

    I believe it is the Royal Red Cross, established by Queen Victoria in 1883 and awarded to women only (until 1976)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Red_Cross

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    : In this recent picture of QV that we have been
    : reviewing, I was wondering if anyone can
    : identify the order worn by QV which shows as
    : a smallish 2 tone bow with cross worn toward
    : the top fo her order cluster.
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    : The other 2 orders are the Imperial Order of
    : the Crowm on India and the Royal Order of
    : Victoria and Albert.
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