According to The Telegraph:
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh have hosted a reception in Buckingham Palace to honour 23 recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross and their families.
The Victoria Cross is…awarded “for most conspicuous bravery or some daring pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy”.
Introduced by Queen Victoria in 1856, it is awarded irrespective of rank to those serving in British and Commonwealth forces.
The George Cross…is granted in recognition of “acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger”…
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