Since Queen Camilla, Princess Royal, Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Alexandra are Garter Knights is there a need for the royal family order. Since the early twentieth century women have been receiving sashes and stars of the royal Victorian Order, Order if the Thistle and Order of the Garter, is there a gap that the RFO is filling. When it was being given out initially it as because other countries had female only orders. Britains nearest thing was Order of the Crown of India but it’s not really the same as Russias St Catherine or Austrias Starry Cross.