Royal Order Of Victoria And Albert

No award has been made since the death of Queen Victoria.

Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
The four grades of the Order
Awarded by Queen Victoria
Type	Royal Family Order
Ribbon	White
Eligibility	Female members of the British royal family and female courtiers
Status	Defunct; not awarded since the death of Queen Victoria, 1901
Post-nominals	VA
Ribbon of the Order

The order had four classes and was only granted to female members of the British royal family and female courtiers. For the first three classes, the badge consisted of a medallion of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, differing in the width and jewelling of the border as the classes descend, whilst the fourth substitutes a jewelled cipher. All four were surmounted by a crown, which was attached to a bow of white silk moiré ribbon. The honour conferred no rank or title upon the recipient, but recipients were entitled to use the post-nominal letters "VA".

The last holder of the Order, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, died in 1981.

• 1863 The Princess of Wales
• Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (Woman of the Bedchamber)
• The Countess of Mount Edgcumbe (Lady of the Bedchamber)
• Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill (Lady of the Bedchamber)
• 1889: The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
• Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton

a full list of recipients is published on pages 37–41 of Royal Service Volume 2

• Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
• British Imperial Calendar, 1900, 1902
• The Times

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