|- |Luis de Silva y Carvajal, Duke of Mircanda and Count of la Unión||1876||1935|| |- |1941||Infante Juan Carlos of Spain||1938||-||later King Juan Carlos of Spain. 20th Head and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece |- |1960||King Baudouin of the Belgians - 1, 171st Knight||1930||1993|| |- |1962||Paul, King of the Hellenes||1901||1964|| |- |rowspan=3|1964||Robert II, Duke of Parma ||1909||1974|| |- |Carlos, Duke of Calabria||1938||2015|| |- |Constantine II, King of the Hellenes||1940||2023||Monarch of Greece until 1973 |- | rowspan=3|1977||Nicolás Cotoner y Cotoner, Marquis of Mondéjar||1905||1996|| |- |Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia, 1st Duke of Fernández-Miranda||1915||1980|| |- |Beltrán Osorio y Díez de Rivera, Duke of Alburquerque||1919||1994|| |- | rowspan=2|1981||Felipe, Prince of Asturias||1968||-||later King Felipe VI of Spain. 21st Head and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece |- |José María Pemán||1897||1981|| |- |1982||Olav V, King of Norway||1903||1991|| |- | rowspan=2|1983||King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden - 1, 183rd Knight||1946||-|| |- |Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg||1921||2019||Monarch until 2000 |- |rowspan=4|1985||Emperor Akihito of Japan - 1, 185th Knight||1933||-||Honoured as Crown Prince of Japan. Monarch (1989-2019) |- |King Hussein of Jordan - 1, 186th Knight||1935||1999|| |- |Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands - 1, 187th Knight||1938||-||Former Monarch of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten until Abdication in 2013. |- |Queen Margrethe II of Denmark - 1, 188th Knight||1940||-||Monarch of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands since 1972. |- |1988||Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - 1,189th Knight||1926||2022||also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Bahamas, Grenada, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Papua New Guinea, and Saint Kitts and Nevis since 1952. |- |1994||King Albert II - 1, 190th Knight||1934||-||Monarch of Belgium until Abdication in 2013. |- |1995||King Harald V of Norway - 1, 191st Knight||1937||-|| |- 21st Century !Year of Induction!!Name!!Born!!Died!!Notes |- |2004||Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - 1,192nd Knight||1937||-|| King of Bulgaria (1943–1946) and Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001–2005) |- |2006||King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand - 1,193rd Knight ||1927||2016|| |- |rowspan=3|2007||Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg - 1,194th Knight||1955||-|| |- |Adolfo Suárez, Duke of Suárez - 1,195th Knight||1932||2014|| Prime Minister of Spain (1976-1981) |- |Abdullah, King of Saudi Arabia - 1,196th Knight||1924||2015|| The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques |- |rowspan=2|2010||Javier Solana - 1,197th Knight||1942||-|| Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999) and High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (1999–2009) |- |Víctor García de la Concha - 1,198th Knight||1934||-|| Director of the Real Academia Española (1998–2010) |-