Although she now had three different Royal Family Orders, upon receiving her daughter's order she stopped wearing the badge of George V's order.
A 1965 Cecil Beaton portrait.
The original recipients of the order are listed as
Size 1:
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (mother of Elizabeth II)
Queen Mary (grandmother of Elizabeth II)
"The Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II is suspended from a yellow silk watered ribbon the same size width of her father's order, and has been made in two sizes. The larger size was given to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth the Queen mother. These and five smaller badges were given at Christmas 1952."
Risk, James; Pownall, Henry; Stanley, David; Tamplin, John (2001). Royal Service (Volume II) . Lingfield, Surrey: Third Millennium. pp. 36.
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