This article concerns the orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms awarded by the sovereign in right of each nation.
Awards are listed by order of wear.
Read more about Orders And Decorations Of The Commonwealth Realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Belize, Canada, Dominica, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, United Kingdom
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Were enough to bewilder a crew.
When he cried “Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!”
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—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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