The list of Diamond Jubilee Honours 2012 was released on 13 September 2012 and made appointments and promotions within the Royal Victorian Order to recognise contributions to the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012.
The Australia Day Honours 2013 were announced on 26 January 2013 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO.
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Alec Coryton KCB, KBE, MVO, DFC, RAF (16 February 1895 – 20 October 1981), commonly known as Alec Coryton, was a senior RAF commander in World War II.
Admiral Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff GCB GBE KCVO (20 February 1862 – 22 November 1933) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.
Sir Alfred Pearce Gould KCVO CBE MBBS MS FRCS (2 January 1852 – 19 April 1922) was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London from 1912-1916 and was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916-1917.
He was awarded the honour of OBE in 1995 for services to forestry and the community in Aberdeenshire and upon his retirement as Lord-Lieutenant in 2010, was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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Sir Angus Farquharson of Finzean, KCVO, OBE, CStJ, DL (born 27 March 1935) was Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire from 1998 to 2010.
In the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO), having previously been a Lieutenant of that order.
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Anthony Douglass Caesar CVO FRCO born in 1924, is an English priest, organist and composer.
Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay KBE, CMG, CVO, GCSK, (Born as सर डयेन्द्रनथ बुर्रेन्चोबय 24 March 1919 – 29 March 1999) was born in Plaine Magnien, Mauritius and served as Governor-General of Mauritius.
Donald Reeve Buttress, LVO, OBE is an English architect based in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
In the New Years Honours List of January 1995, Dr Sturkey was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for his services as the Official Secretary to the Governor-General.
Elizabeth Ann Roads, LVO (born 1951) is Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary and Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records for the Court of the Lord Lyon.
Dancer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991 for services to business and training and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for his work as Lord-Lieutenant.
Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO CMG, (born 3 July 1929) succeeded his brother, George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall as Baron Wraxall on 19 July 2001.
His father Oswald Tenby-Lewis was awarded membership of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by Queen Elizabeth II for his personal services to the royal family.
James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, CVO MC (25 April 1893 – 1971) was a British peer.
James Henry Leigh-Pemberton CVO (born 1956) is a British banker and the incumbent Receiver-General for the Duchy of Cornwall.
Sir John Ritchie Inch CVO CBE QPM (14 May 1911 – 22 November 1993) was a police officer who was successively Chief Constable of three Scottish police forces.
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish CVO (born 24 April 1926) was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from the late-1940s until the latter's death in 2002 .
Lady Mary Christina Holborow, DCVO (born 19 September 1936), née Stopford, is a daughter of the 8th Earl of Courtown and the former Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
In 1965, he was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Margaret E. Southern, CC, LVO, AOE (born Margaret Visser on 26 February 1931) is a Canadian businessperson, noted as a co-founder of the Spruce Meadows equestrian park near Calgary.
Martin William Ashley MVO Dipl Arch RIBA (born 29 April 1952) is a British architect known for restoration of ecclesiastical buildings and royal properties and a specialist in period and listed buildings.
Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO (7 August 1912 – 26 October 1993) was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta.
The Queen or others in her family may bestow awards in person: in 2004, the Princess Royal presented to 25 recipients the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal, marking the first time a member of the Royal Family had presented a provincial honour in Canada, and, when the Queen was in the province in 2005, she appointed Saskatchewan citizens to the Royal Victorian Order.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, a British order of knighthood (post-nominal letters: MVO)
Royal Victorian Order (Also awarded Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, etc.)
Patrick Richard Harverson LVO is Communications Secretary to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, in addition to being Official Spokesman to TRHs The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Peter Harold Dimmock CBE, CVO (born 6 December 1920) is a pioneering former sports broadcaster and senior executive of British television during its formative years in the 1950s.
Robert John Anderson Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill CVO (born 15 March 1945) is a British judge.
In 2008 he was admitted, via the Queen’s birthday honours list to the Royal Victorian Order.
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Robert George Clinton, CVO, is a noted British lawyer.
In 1992 he was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen with the award of Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order for his part in the organisation of her State Visit that year to Germany.
Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.
Anthony "Tony" Eggleton, AO, CVO (born 30 April 1932), is a former Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Luhabe was appointed Honorary Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the 2014 New Year Honours for her services as a trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation.
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Wendy Yvonne Nomathemba Luhabe LVO (born 29 May 1957) is a South African entrepreneur.
Sir William Howard Russell CVO (28 March 1820 – 11 February 1907) was born in Tallaght, Co. Dublin. He was a British-Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Albert Ernest (George) Sims (OBE, RVO), LRAM, ARCM (1896–1981) was a British composer, conductor and music director (Wing Commander) for The Central Band of H.M. Royal Air Force.
Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst GCB GCVO MC PC (17 May 1894–29 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War.
Arthur William Moore CVO SHK JP MA (1853–1909) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon DSO MVO (30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935) was a British Peer, the son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond by his first wife, Amy Mary Ricardo (1849–1879), daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park and Mathilde Hensley.
Sir Charles Johns Mole KBE, MVO (1886–1962) was a British architect who served in the Ministry of Works, eventually becoming its Director-General.
In 2001, Lord Lansdowne was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, shortly after retiring as a member of the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall.
Desmond John Chetwode Crawley, CMG CVO (2 June 1917 – 26 April 1993) was a British diplomat, who served as administrator under the Raj to Commonwealth diplomat, from the Asian sub-continent to West Africa, and, finally, from behind the Iron Curtain to the Vatican.
Rear-Admiral Edward Leopold Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878-1968), a member of the Acland Baronetcy, was a rear-admiral and naval attaché to King George V.
Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.
John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham KG, GCVO, PC (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928), known as Viscount Lambton until 1879, was a British peer.
Vice Admiral John Henry Stuart McAnally CB LVO (born 9 April 1945) is a former Royal Navy officer who became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
From June 1906 to August 1908, Komura served as ambassador to Great Britain, during which time he was made a K.C.B. by King Edward VII and made a member of the Royal Victorian Order.
Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Gaskell née Knox DCVO (21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937–53 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953–60.
Marcus de Laune "Marc" Faunce, CVO, AM, OBE, FRCP, FRACP (5 December 1922 – 14 June 2004) was a Canberra consultant physician, head of Royal Canberra Hospital, doctor to five Australian Prime Ministers and six Governors-General of Australia and former Senior Physician Consultant to the RAAF.
Together they had three children: Major Andrew Wigram, who was married in 1974 to Gabrielle Diana Moore; Margaret Cherry Wigram, (born 1942), who in 1972 married Lieutenant Colonel Greville John Wyndham Malet, OBE, they divorced in 1993; Anne Celia Wigram, (born 1945), in 1973 married Major General Evelyn John Webb-Carter, KCVO, OBE, DL.
Noel Wilby LVO QPM (1914 – 1975) was an Australian police officer and Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 1969 to 1971.
Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan, Marchioness of Anglesey, DBE, LVO (born 4 December 1924, better known as Dame Shirley Paget) is a writer and the daughter of novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan.
Sir Archibald married Olga Mary Adelaide FitzGeorge, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Adolphus FitzGeorge KCVO and Sophia Jane Holden, granddaughter of the Duke of Cambridge and first cousin to Queen Victoria on 18 December 1897 in London.
Major-General Sir Richard Henry Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet, GCVO KCSI (10 March 1858 – 27 October 1934) was a noted doctor, and Serjeant Surgeon to King George V.
Terrance Christopher, OMM, LVO, CD is a retired Canadian Naval Officer and former Usher of the Black Rod for the Senate of Canada, the most senior protocol office in Parliament.
Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner VC CVO (17 January 1900 – 7 August 1972) was an English recipient during the Second World War of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Virginia Fortune Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, DCVO (b. 9 February 1933) Newport, New Jersey is an American-born Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II.
Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO (9 April 1885 – 6 May 1949) was a British politician.