Order of King George IV, 1826 Founder of the Victoria Cross 5 February 1856 Founder and Sovereign of the Order of the Star of India, 25 June 1861 Founder and Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, 10 February 1862 Founder and Sovereign of the Order of the Crown of India, 1 January 1878 Founder and Sovereign of the Order of the Indian Empire, 1 January 1878 Founder and Sovereign of the Royal Red Cross, 27 April 1883 Founder and Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, 6 November 1886 Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, 1887 Founder and Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, 23 April 1896 Foreign honours Arms As Sovereign, Victoria used the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom. Before her accession, she received no grant of arms. As she could not succeed to the throne of Hanover, her arms did not carry the Hanoverian symbols that were used by her immediate predecessors. Her arms have been borne by all of her successors on the throne. Outside Scotland, the blazon for the shield—also used on the Royal Standard—is: Quarterly: I and IV, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or (for England); II, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); III, Azure, a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland). In Scotland, the first and fourth quarters are occupied by the Scottish lion, and the second by the English lions. The crests, mottoes, and supporters also differ in and outside Scotland. Family Issue Ancestry Family tree Red borders indicate British monarchs Bold borders indicate children of British monarchs Notes References Citations Bibliography Primary sources Further reading External links Queen Victoria's Journals, online from the Royal Archive and Bodleian Library 1819 births 1901 deaths Monarchs of the United Kingdom Monarchs of the Isle of Man Heads of state of Canada Monarchs of Australia Heads of state of New Zealand Queens regnant in the British Isles 19th-century British monarchs 20th-century British monarchs House of Hanover Hanoverian princesses House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (United Kingdom) Empresses regnant Indian empresses British princesses 19th-century diarists British diarists British royal memoirists Founders of English schools and colleges People associated with the Royal National College for the Blind People from Kensington Articles containing video clips British people of German descent Female critics of feminism Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Immaculate Conception of