Royal Family Order of King George VI
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The Royal Family Order of King George VI was a high honour bestowed as a mark of personal esteem on titled female members of the British Royal Family
for personal service to King George VI
.
Queen Elizabeth II
and Princess Alexandra
are the only surviving members of the Order.
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|HM Queen Mary
||1867-1953||née Princess Mary of Teck
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|HM The Queen
||1900-2002||née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Later Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
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|HRH The Princess Elizabeth
||1926-||Later Queen Elizabeth II
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|HRH The Princess Margaret
||1930-2002||Later Countess of Snowdon
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|HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
||1901-2004||née Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
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|HRH The Duchess of Kent||1906-1968||née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
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|HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
||1936-||Later The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
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|HRH The Princess Royal
, Countess of Harewood
||1897-1965||
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|HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
||1883-1981||née Princess Alice of Albany; later Princess Alexander of Teck
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British Royal Family
The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms, thus sometimes at variance with...
for personal service to King George VI
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...
.
Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
and Princess Alexandra
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy is the youngest granddaughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. She is the widow of Sir Angus Ogilvy...
are the only surviving members of the Order.
List of known recipients
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|HM Queen Mary
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
||1867-1953||née Princess Mary of Teck
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|HM The Queen
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...
||1900-2002||née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; Later Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
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|HRH The Princess Elizabeth
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
||1926-||Later Queen Elizabeth II
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|HRH The Princess Margaret
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....
||1930-2002||Later Countess of Snowdon
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|HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Queen Mary.The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter and...
||1901-2004||née Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
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|HRH The Duchess of Kent||1906-1968||née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark
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|HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy is the youngest granddaughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. She is the widow of Sir Angus Ogilvy...
||1936-||Later The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
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|HRH The Princess Royal
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal...
, Countess of Harewood
Earl of Harewood
Earl of Harewood, in the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1812 for Edward Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, a wealthy sugar plantation owner and former Member of Parliament for Northallerton...
||1897-1965||
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|HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...
||1883-1981||née Princess Alice of Albany; later Princess Alexander of Teck
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