The Most Illustrious Order of the Royal House of Chakri (มหาจักรีบรมราชวงศ์) was established in 1882 by King Rama V

Chulalongkorn

Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramintharamaha Chulalongkorn Phra Chunla Chom Klao Chao Yu Hua , or Rama V was the fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri. He was known to the Siamese of his time as Phra Phuttha Chao Luang . He is considered one of the greatest kings of Siam...

 of The Kingdom of Siam

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

 (now Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

) to commemorate the Bangkok Centennial. The Order is awarded to members of the House of Chakri (the Thai Royal Family), foreign Heads of State and members of other royal houses.

Members of the order are entitled to use the postnominals ม.จ.ก.

Insignia

The decoration consists of a single class (Knight). The insignia is:

• Pendant of Chakri, suspended from collar
• Pendant of Chula Chakri, attached onto the yellow sash, to wear over the left shoulder to the right hip
• Star of Chakri, to wear on the left chest

Foreign recipients of the Order

• Emperor Akihito
  Akihito
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   of Japan
• Empress Michiko of Japan
• Raymond Poincaré
  Raymond Poincaré
  Raymond Poincaré was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France on five separate occasions and as President of France from 1913 to 1920. Poincaré was a conservative leader primarily committed to political and social stability...
  
   - French Prime Minister and President
• Charles de Gaulle
  Charles de Gaulle
  Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....
  
   - French President
• King Sisavang Vong
  Sisavang Vong
  Sisavang Phoulivong , was king of Kingdom of Luang Phrabang and later Kingdom of Laos from 28 April 1904 until his death on 20 October 1959.-Early life:...
  
   - King of the Kingdom of Laos
• Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
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   and Commonwealth
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
  
   - U.S. President
• King Olav V of Norway
  Olav V of Norway
  Olav V was the king of Norway from 1957 until his death. A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud of Norway...
  
  
• King Harald V of Norway
  Harald V of Norway
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• Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
  Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
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• Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
  Juliana of the Netherlands
  Juliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...
  
  
• Queen Sofía of Spain
  Queen Sofía of Spain
  Queen Sofía of Spain is the wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.-Early life and family:Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika , a former princess of Hanover...
  
  
• King Baudouin of Belgium

External links

• The Most Illustrious Order of the Royal House of Chakri, Secretariat to the Cabinet of Thailand