List of current knights and ladies of the Garter

The

ex officio

and gaining membership upon acceding to one of the titles if not already held—and not more than 24 full members known as Companions. Male members are known as Knights Companion, whilst female members are known as Ladies Companion. The Order can also include supernumerary members (members of the British Royal Family and foreign monarchs), known as "Royal" and "Stranger" Knights and Ladies (Companion), respectively. The Sovereign alone grants membership to the Order, meaning that ministerial advice is not sought.

Sovereign

Name	Year of appointment	Present age	Banner
The King (ex officio)	1958 as The Prince of Wales; Sovereign since 2022	75

Royal Knights and Ladies (Companion)

Name	Year of appointment	Present age	Notes
GCVO CD ADC	1985	88
CMM CD ADC	1994	73	Royal Knight Companion^[1]
GCStJ SSI	1997	79
GCVO CD	2003	87	Royal Knight Companion^[1]
GCVO CD	2006	64
GCVO CD ADC	2006 as The Earl of Wessex; The Duke of Edinburgh since 2023	60
PC ADC (ex officio)	2008 as Prince William of Wales; The Prince of Wales since 2022	41	1000th Knight of the Garter
PC	January 2022 as The Duchess of Cornwall; The Queen since September 2022	76	Royal Lady
DStJ CD	2024	77	Royal Lady Companion

Stranger Knights and Ladies Companion

Name	Year of appointment	Present age	Notes
LG	1979 as Queen; abdicated 2024	84	recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
KG	1983	77	recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
KG	1988 as King; abdicated 2014	86	recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
GCVO	1989 as Queen; abdicated 2013	86	recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
GCVO	1998 as Emperor; abdicated 2019	90
GCVO	2001	87	recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
GCVO	2017	56	^[2]
KG	2018	56

Knights and Ladies Companion

Member number^{[N 1]}	Name	Known for	Year of appointment	Present age
1-(986)	KG	Former Lord Steward and former Lord-Lieutenant of Tyrone	1999	89
2-(992)	PC	Former Cabinet Secretary and former Head of the Home Civil Service	2003	86
3-(994)	PC	Former Prime Minister	2005	81
4-(999)	DL	Former Lord Chamberlain and former Governor of Gibraltar	2008	87
5-(1001)	JP	Former Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire and former Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire	2008	90
6-(1002)	PC KC	Former Lord Chief Justice and former President of the Supreme Court	2011	86
7-(1004)	GCB AFC	Former Chief of the Defence Staff	2013	74
8-(1005)	DCB	Former Director General of the Security Service	2014	75
9-(1006)	DL FBA	Former Governor of the Bank of England	2014	76
10-(1007)	KCVO	Former Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire	2016	75
11-(1010)	KStJ	Lord in Waiting to The King and Lord-Lieutenant of Fermanagh	2018	71
12-(1011)	JP	Former Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire	2018	84
13-(1013)	DL	Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and former Leader of the House of Lords	2019	77
14-(1014)	DBE	Olympic gold medallist and former Lord-Lieutenant of Belfast	2019	84
15-(1015)	PC	Former Secretary of State for International Development	2022	70
16-(1016)	PC	Former Prime Minister	2022	70
17-(1017)	PC	Former High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Leader of the House of Lords	2023	68
18-(1018)	PC	Final Chancellor of the University of Oxford	2023	79
19-(1019)	DL	Former Chief of the Defence Staff and former Chair of the NATO Military Committee	2024	68
20-(1020)	PC	Former Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission and former Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission	2024	59
21-(1021)	KG	Composer and impresario of musical theatre	2024	76
22	Vacant ^{[N 2]}
23	Vacant ^{[N 3]}
24	Vacant ^{[N 4]}

Officers

Prelate: Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Winchester (ex officio, 2023)
KG
(2012)
Register:^[3] Christopher Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor (ex officio, 2023)
King of Arms:
OStJ, Garter Principal King of Arms
(ex officio, 2021)

Secretary:

CVO

(2004)

Usher:
OBE, Lady Usher of the Black Rod
(ex officio, 2018)

Notes

^ The number shown in brackets is the individual's place in the wider order of appointment since the Order's inception.
^ Vacant following the death of The Lord Boyce on 6 November 2022.
^ Vacant following the death of Sir David Brewer on 28 May 2023.
The Lord Morris of Aberavon
on 5 June 2023.

References

^ ^a ^b Addressing the Royal Family - Debrett's at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 February 2017)

^ ""Every terrorist attack is an attack on every one of us": King of Spain pays tribute to Britain after Manchester and London atrocities - Mirror Online". Mirror.co.uk. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.

^ "The Register of the Order of the Garter". The Companion – magazine for the College of St George. No. 21. The Dean and Canons of Windsor. 13 June 2015. p. 12. Retrieved 23 April 2021 – via issuu.com.

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[Order-3] The number shown in brackets is the individual's place in the wider order of appointment since the Order's inception.

[4] Vacant following the death of The Lord Boyce on 6 November 2022.

[5] Vacant following the death of Sir David Brewer on 28 May 2023.

[6] The Lord Morris of Aberavon
on 5 June 2023.

[KG-1] Addressing the Royal Family - Debrett's at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 February 2017)

[2] ""Every terrorist attack is an attack on every one of us": King of Spain pays tribute to Britain after Manchester and London atrocities - Mirror Online". Mirror.co.uk. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2017.

[7] "The Register of the Order of the Garter". The Companion – magazine for the College of St George. No. 21. The Dean and Canons of Windsor. 13 June 2015. p. 12. Retrieved 23 April 2021 – via issuu.com.

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