Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
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Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos is a Guyanese-British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Official portrait, 2013
Amos's Official Ministerial Portrait
Amos during the WEF 2013
Order of the Garter
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The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by King Edward III in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, it is outranked in precedence only by
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
…She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an International Honorary Member in 2019. On 1 January 2022, the Queen appointed Amos a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter (LG). Amos's banner of arms was erected at St George's Chapel, Windsor, on 13 June. Amos is the first black "knight or lady companion" member of the…
Badge of the Order embroidered onto the left shoulder of a Knight's blue velvet mantle
Henry of Grosmont, Earl (later Duke) of Lancaster (d. 1361), the second appointee of the Order, shown wearing a tabard displaying the royal arms of England over which is his blue mantle or garter robe. Illuminated miniature from the Bruges Garter Book c. 1430 by William Bruges, first Garter King of Arms
Statutes of the Order of the Garter, this copy having once belonged to Emperor Alexander III of Russia
Knights Companion processing to St George's Chapel, Windsor for the Garter Service