List of recipients of the Royal Victorian Chain explained

Below is a list of recipients of the Royal Victorian Chain:

Edward VII (1902–1910)

Name	Date conferred	Notes
	1902	Later George V
	1902^[1]
	1902	Later Frederick VIII, King of Denmark
	1902	Later Haakon VII, King of Norway
	1902	Later Constantine I, King of the Hellenes
	1902	Revoked in 1915
	1902
	1902	Revoked in 1915
	1902
	1902
	1902	Revoked in 1915
	1902
Frederick Temple	1902^[2]	Archbishop of Canterbury
	1903	Viceroy of India Later 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston Later 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
	1903^[3]	Revoked in 1941
	6 September 1904
	6 September 1904	Revoked in 1915
	1904
	1904	Revoked in 1915
	9 June 1905
	15 June 1905
	1 December 1905
	22 December 1905
	15 May 1906
	5 May 1908
Armand Fallières	29 May 1908	President of the French Republic

George V (1910–1936)

Name	Date conferred	Notes
	23 June 1911	Archbishop of Canterbury Later 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth
	23 June 1911	Earl Marshal
	13 February 1912	Secretary of State for India
	13 February 1912	Viceroy of India
	4 June 1917	Former Prime Minister
	28 October 1918^[4]	On the occasion of the Prince's visit to Buckingham Palace to present King George V with the Japanese honorific of Gensui and its accompanying badge and sword^[5]
	1921^[6]	Later Edward VIII Later Duke of Windsor
Cosmo Gordon Lang	26 April 1923	Archbishop of Canterbury Later 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth
	1923	Later Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden
	1925	Former Lord Chamberlain to Queen Alexandra
	1927^[7]	Later George VI
Amānullāh Khān, King of Afghanistan	1928
Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu	1930	Revoked in 1942
	1930
	3 June 1932
	13 June 1932
	1934
Umberto, Prince of Piedmont	1935	Later Umberto II, King of Italy
	1935
	1935	Born Prince Alexander of Teck
	3 June 1935	Lord Chamberlain of the Household
	1 January 1936

George VI (1936–1952)

Name	Date conferred	Notes
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu	1937
	11 May 1937	Later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
	11 May 1937
	11 May 1937	Former Private Secretary to the Sovereign
	1937
	10 August 1945	Governor of Northern Ireland
	1 January 1946	Nizam of Hyderabad
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran	1948
Geoffrey Fisher	1 January 1949	Archbishop of Canterbury Later Baron Fisher of Lambeth
	9 June 1949
Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands	1950

Elizabeth II (1952–2022)

Name	Date conferred	Notes
	24 October 1952	Former Lord Chamberlain of the Household
	1 June 1953	Earl Marshal
	1 June 1953	Master of the Horse
	1955	Later Olav V, King of Norway
	1955
Francisco Craveiro Lopes	1957	President of the Portuguese Republic
	1957
	29 July 1960	Governor General of Canada
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand	1960
Charles de Gaulle	1960	President of the French Republic
Mahendra, King of Nepal	1961
	1 January 1963	Former Lord Chamberlain of the Household
	3 March 1964	Former Lord Steward of the Household
	1965
	1966
	1966	President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia	1967^[8]
	11 April 1972	Former Private Secretary to the Sovereign Later Baron Adeane
Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan	1972
	3 August 1973	Governor General of Canada
Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury	19 November 1974	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark	1974	Abdicated in 2024
Birendra, King of Nepal	1975
Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden	1975
	14 March 1980	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
Khalid, King of Saudi Arabia	1981
	30 October 1982	Governor-General of Fiji
	1982	Abdicated in 2013
	29 November 1984	Former Lord Chamberlain of the Household
	1985	President of the Portuguese Republic
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain	1986	Abdicated in 2014
Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia	1987
	21 August 1990
	1991	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
	10 July 1992	Former Private Secretary to the Sovereign
	1992	President of the French Republic
Richard von Weizsäcker	1992	Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
	1994^[9]
	17 December 1997	Former Lord Chamberlain of the Household
	1 November 2000	Earl Marshal
	29 October 2002	Former Archbishop of Canterbury
	20 November 2007
Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia	2007
	2010
	4 October 2012	Former Archbishop of Canterbury Later Baron Williams of Oystermouth
	13 April 2021	Former Lord Chamberlain of the Household

Notes and References

Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) p. 415
H. M. Spooner, 'Temple, Frederick (1821–1902)’, rev. Mark D. Chapman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 5 Feb 2012
Wm. A. Shaw, The Knights of England, Volume I (London, 1906) [//archive.org/stream/cu31924092537418#page/n507/mode/2up p. 416]
Visit to London of Admiral His Imperial Highness Prince Yorihito of Higashi Fushimi . Royal Archives, PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/23106.
Jenzen-Jones . N.R. . The King George V Gensuitō: An Imperial Japanese rarity in the Royal Collection . Arms & Armour . 20 October 2022 . 19 . 2 . 185–197 . 10.1080/17416124.2022.2126100 . 253055340 . 16 February 2023.
Whitaker's Almanack 1960
Whitaker's. Almanack 1947
King Faisal OF Saudi Arabia, His Awards and the Saudi Order of King Faisal. Owain Raw-Rees. The Medal Collector. 49. 4. 1998.
Web site: Court Circular. https://archive.today/20130126062347/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4661909.html. dead. 26 January 2013. 6 July 1994. The Independent. 2 June 2012.