Statutes of the Royal Victorian Order

[Red Eagle]

Hi,

I m looking to download the statutes of the Royal Victorian Order, but cant find it everywhere.

It can be a version of the 1980ths years.

Does anybody knows something?

[Red Eagle]

Now, I find the Statutes by my self.

Statutes.pdf

[Egorka]

"Now Know Ye that..."   "And further Know all Ye..."

Thank you! 

[mitrich]

If you are interested:

3515.pdf

3516.pdf

3517.pdf

3518.pdf

3519.pdf

3520.pdf

[Red Eagle]

Thank you!

[Mike McLellan]

It would be better with pictures. 

[Egorka]

I would...

[Great Dane]

I can't find the mentioning of the medal of the order for foreigners is to have a white center stripe.

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Oh, I see it was mentioned in the newer statutes in the first link. 

Does anybody know when it was added?

Edited December 13, 2017 by Great Dane

[gongz]

I can't find the Statute in the  Gazette, but in the authoritative book "Royal Service, Volume 1" it is stated that the King approved the central stripe on 13 Sept 1951 and the Statute was dated 15 Oct 1951. This information appears in a chapter relating to the Victorian Medal and there is no indication as to whether it applies to all grades of the Order.

Cheers

Graeme

[Red Eagle]

Thats right! The stripe you not find on higher grades of this Order.

Look here: (Honorary Knight-Commander) for a foreigner.

[mitrich]

21 hours ago, Great Dane said:

Does anybody know when it was added?

In 1951.

[Great Dane]

Excellent. Thanks guys!

That explains why I've seen some mounted foreign bars from the 1930s and 40s without the stripe. The prevailing explanation so far was "Maybe they didn't have the correct ribbon in stock".

[peter monahan]

So, presumably, the white stripe is to indicate, when only ribbons are worn, that it IS the lowest of the grades of the order.  Which makes sense to me, as the sort of people who earn such things usually do not want to be mistaken for members of the hoi-polloi if they are in fact nobs of the nobbiest sort!

[Great Dane]

Awarded to foreigners I believe it was pretty much used as a 'court medal' during state visits.

Court officials normally wear the full medal set (not a ribbon bar), so maybe that's the reason for not differentiating bronze, silver and gilt medal ribbons.