Examples we know of include HRH Princess Alice of Athlone, who started wearing her mother’s badge after HRH The Duchess of Albany’s death in 1922.
Here are some links to her wearing her original 2nd class badge
https://www.rct.uk/collection/2936159/princess-alice-and-princess-helen-of-albany shows Princess Alice with her mother, wearing their 1902 coronation robes.
in her 1911 coronation robes.
Here are some links to her wearing the 1st class badge post-1922
Princess Alice of Athlone items in Toronto Public Library collection
including at the opening of the Canadian Parliament during her husband’s term as Governor General.
(I’m sure I read somewhere that after Princess Alice’s death her daughter Lady May Abel Smith inherited her mother’s royal orders insignia and had the crowns removed so she could wear the jewelled cameos as brooches. I must follow that up. Does anyone readily know of a source?)
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