The Order of Saint Charles (; Monégasque: U̍rdine de San Carlu) is a state and dynastic order of knighthood established in Monaco on 15 March 1858.

Award This order rewards service to the State or Prince. In particular cases, it may be granted to foreigners. It is awarded by the current Grand Master, Prince Albert II.

Reception Except for Members of the Princely Family and foreigners, one can only receive the Order first with the rank of Knight. To be awarded the following higher ranks, one must keep the lower rank for a set length of time: Officer: four years as a Knight Commander: three years as an Officer Grand Officer: four years as a Commander Knight Grand Cross: five years as a Grand Officer

Nominations belong to the Grand Master. The Chancellor proposes promotions. According to the Prince's orders, the Chancellor proposes the projects of nomination and promotion ordonnances. The grantees must be received in the Order before wearing the decorations. The Grand-Master receives the Grand Crosses, Grand Officers and Commanders. The Chancellor receives the Officers and Knights. Foreigners are admitted to the Order, but not received.

Funeral honours Commanders, Officers and Knights are honoured in the choir of the church and warded by four carabiniers in ceremonial uniform and weapon commanded by a Sub-Officer. Knights Grand Cross and Grand Officers are honoured outside the church, at the beginning and end of the funeral ceremony, by 24 carabiniers in ceremonial uniform and weapon commanded by an Officer.

Classes and design Knight Grand Cross The Knight Grand Cross wears the badge of the order on a sash and the star of the order on the left of the breast. There is a golden necklet that is attached to the Order. It has small empty egg-shaped sections that form the necklet. The badge is sometimes worn attached to this collar instead of the sash.

Grand Officer

The Grand Officer wears a badge and a star. The Star of the Order of St. Charles is made of silver. The badge of the Order of St. Charles is worn on a chest ribbon with rosette or on a bow. The star is worn on the right side of the chest.

Commander The Commander of the Order of St. Charles wears the badge on a ribbon around the neck or on a bow on the left shoulder.

Officer The Officer of the Order of St. Charles wears the badge on a chest ribbon with a rosette. The cross has a thinner laurel-wreath than the Knight of the Order of St. Charles.

Knight The Knight of the Order of St. Charles wears the badge of the order on a chest ribbon without rosette.

Ribbon barsGrand CrossGrand OfficerCommanderOfficerKnight

Legal basis Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 January 1863 about the Order of Saint-Charles (modified) : Text (French) Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 January 186 establishing the statutes of the Order of Saint-Charles (modified) : Text (French) Sovereign Ordonnance n° 125 of 23 April 1923 concerning the insignias of the Order of Saint-Charles : Text (French)

Notable recipients

Knights Grand Cross

Granted by Charles III, Prince of Monaco Oscar II of Sweden and Norway – 16 January 1862.Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 January 1862 Christian IX of Denmark – 7 February 1864.Sovereign Ordonnance of 7 February 1864 Muhammad III as-Sadiq – 28 December 1864.Sovereign Ordonnance of 28 December 1864 Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse – 23 April 1865.Sovereign Ordonnance of 23 April 1865 Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine – 23 April 1865. Isabella II of Spain – 17 September 1865.Sovereign Ordonnance of 17 September 1865 Alfonso XII of Spain – 17 September 1865. Charles I of Württemberg – 24 September 1865.Sovereign Ordonnance of 24 September 1865 Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys – 24 December 1865.Sovereign Ordonnance of 24 December 1865 Manuel Bermúdez de Castro y Díez – 2 June 1866.Sovereign Ordonnance of 2 June 1866 Juan de Zavala – 2 June 1866. Prince Charles of Prussia – 6 April 1869.Sovereign Ordonnance of 6 April 1869 Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden – 19 October 1869.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 October 1869 Napoleon III – 16 November 1869.Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 November 1869 Pedro II of Brazil – 19 March 1872.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 March 1872 Franz Joseph I of Austria – 24 September 1872.Sovereign Ordonnance of 24 September 1872 Alexander II of Russia – 22 July 1873.Sovereign Ordonnance of 22 July 1873 Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin – 8 September 1874.Sovereign Ordonnance of 8 September 1874 Gustaf V of Sweden – 6 April 1875.Sovereign Ordonnance of 6 April 1875 William III of the Netherlands – 13 April 1875.Sovereign Ordonnance of 13 April 1875 Amadeo I of Spain – 27 April 1875.Sovereign Ordonnance of 27 April 1875 Fontes Pereira de Melo – 18 July 1876.Sovereign Ordonnance of 18 July 1876 Louis, duc Decazes – 20 March 1877.Sovereign Ordonnance of 20 March 1877 Antoine Chanzy – 30 April 1878.Sovereign Ordonnance of 30 April 1878 Mustapha Ben Ismaïl – 16 July 1878.Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 July 1878 Count Gustav Kálnoky – 11 April 1882.Sovereign Ordonnance of 11 April 1882 Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern – 26 September 1882.Sovereign Ordonnance of 26 September 1882 Milan I of Serbia – 29 May 1883.Sovereign Ordonnance of 29 May 1883 Alexander III of Russia – 14 August 1883.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 August 1883 Nikolay Girs – 21 August 1883.Sovereign Ordonnance of 21 August 1883 Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach – 4 December 1883.Sovereign Ordonnance of 4 December 1883 Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland – 5 August 1884.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 August 1884 Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg – 12 February 1889.Sovereign Ordonnance of 12 February 1889

Granted by Albert I, Prince of Monaco

Jules François Émile Krantz – 19 Novembre 1889.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 Novembre 1889 Victor Emmanuel III of Italy – 30 Decembre 1890.Sovereign Ordonnance of 30 Decembre 1890 Ferdinand I of Bulgaria – 11 May 1892.Sovereign Ordonnance of 11 May 1892 Félix Faure – 3 March 1896.Sovereign Ordonnance of 3 March 1896 Nicholas II of Russia – 16 May 1896. Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 May 1896 Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria – 4 Novembre 1897.Sovereign Ordonnance of 4 Novembre 1897 Wilhelm, German Crown Prince – 15 January 1900.Sovereign Ordonnance of 15 January 1900 Paul Kruger – 11 December 1900.Sovereign Ordonnance of 11 December 1900 Émile Loubet – 15 March 1901.Sovereign Ordonnance of 15 March 1901 Louis André – 31 Decembre 1901.Sovereign Ordonnance of 31 Decembre 1901 Jules Massenet – 18 February 1902.Sovereign Ordonnance of 18 February 1902 Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau – 10 June 1902.Sovereign Ordonnance of 10 June 1902 Edward VII – 25 June 1902.Sovereign Ordonnance of 25 June 1902 Juan Manuel Sánchez, Duke of Almodóvar del Río – 30 Octobre 1902.Sovereign Ordonnance of 30 Octobre 1902 Camille Saint-Saëns – 18 February 1904.Sovereign Ordonnance of 18 February 1904 Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal – 22 July 1904.Sovereign Ordonnance of 22 July 1904 Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 21 March 1905.Sovereign Ordonnance of 21 March 1905 Hugo von Radolin – 3 April 1905.Sovereign Ordonnance of 3 April 1905 Wilhelm von Hahnke – 14 April 1907.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 April 1907 Helmuth von Moltke the Younger – 14 April 1907. Heinrich von Tschirschky – 14 April 1907. Armand Fallières – 27 April 1909.Sovereign Ordonnance of 27 April 1909 Manuel II of Portugal – 13 August 1909.Sovereign Ordonnance of 13 August 1909 Antonino Paternò Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano – 19 May 1910.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 May 1910 Marc Hautefeuille – 2 February 1911.Sovereign Ordonnance of 2 February 1911 Ahmad Shah Qajar – 14 January 1915.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 January 1915 Mohammad Hassan Mirza – 14 January 1915. Samad Khan Momtaz os-Saltaneh – 14 January 1915. Pietro Gasparri – 8 February 1916.Sovereign Ordonnance of 8 February 1916 Arthur Walsh, 3rd Baron Ormathwaite – 5 July 1916.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 July 1916 Henri Le Rond – 23 May 1922.Sovereign Ordonnance of 23 May 1922

Granted by Louis II, Prince of Monaco

Alexandre Millerand – 16 January 1923.Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 January 1923 Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendôme – 19 June 1923.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 June 1923 Raymond Le Bourdon – 23 October 1923.Sovereign Ordonnance of 23 October 1923 Maurizio Ferrante Gonzaga – 1 April 1924.Sovereign Ordonnance of 1 April 1924 Louis-Ernest Dubois – 17 May 1924.Sovereign Ordonnance of 17 May 1924 Fernand David – 19 November 1925.Sovereign Ordonnance of 19 November 1925 Gregor Carl Georg Aminoff - 1926 Philippe Pétain – 27 January 1927.Sovereign Ordonnance of 27 January 1927 Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland – 14 April 1927.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 April 1927 Charles D. B. King – 14 July 1927.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 July 1927 Edwin Barclay – 20 October 1927.Sovereign Ordonnance of 20 October 1927 Charles Binet – 11 October 1928.Sovereign Ordonnance of 11 October 1928 Count Carl August Ehrensvärd – 7 March 1929.Sovereign Ordonnance of 7 March 1929 Paul Painlevé – 22 August 1929.Sovereign Ordonnance of 22 August 1929 Umberto II of Italy – 16 January 1930.Sovereign Ordonnance of 16 January 1930 Benito Mussolini – 16 January 1930. Louis Franchet d'Espèrey – 27 February 1930.Sovereign Ordonnance of 27 February 1930 Pope Pius XII – 27 February 1930. Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy – 24 July 1930.Sovereign Ordonnance of 24 July 1930 Leopold III of Belgium – 7 August 1930.Sovereign Ordonnance of 7 August 1930 Paul Doumer – 31 March 1932.Sovereign Ordonnance of 31 March 1932 Hubert Lyautey – 21 April 1932.Sovereign Ordonnance of 21 April 1932 Prajadhipok – 1 March 1934.Sovereign Ordonnance of 1 March 1934 Albert Lebrun – 5 July 1934.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 July 1934 Giuliano Gozi – 2 May 1935.Sovereign Ordonnance of 2 May 1935 Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark – 5 March 1936.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 March 1936 Edvard Beneš – 17 February 1938.Sovereign Ordonnance of 17 February 1938 Emmanuel Célestin Suhard – 15 September 1938.Sovereign Ordonnance of 15 September 1938 Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy – 28 December 1938.Sovereign Ordonnance of 28 December 1938 Édouard Daladier – 1 June 1939.Sovereign Ordonnance of 1 June 1939 Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark – 14 March 1940.Sovereign Ordonnance of 14 March 1940 George II of Greece – 11 April 1940.Sovereign Ordonnance of 11 April 1940 Prince Rainier of Monaco – 5 June 1941.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 June 1941 Charles de Gaulle – 5 October 1944.Sovereign Ordonnance of 5 October 1944 Ghislaine, Princess consort of Monaco – 31 October 1946.Sovereign Ordonnance of 31 October 1946 Pope John XXIII – 10 July 1947.Sovereign Ordonnance of 10 July 1947 Marie-Pierre Kœnig – 4 September 1947.Sovereign Ordonnance of 4 September 1947 George VI – 13 November 1947.Sovereign Ordonnance of 13 November 1947 Paul of Greece – 29 November 1947.Sovereign Ordonnance of 29 November 1947 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg – 20 January 1949.Sovereign Ordonnance of 20 January 1949

Granted by Rainier III, Prince of Monaco Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – 15 February 1951.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 352 of 15 February 1951. Robert Schuman – 21 January 1952.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 506 of 21 January 1952. Alcide De Gasperi – 20 January 1954.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 888, n° 889 of 20 January 1954. Giuseppe Pella – 20 January 1954. René Coty – 2 December 1954.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 1047 of 2 December 1954. Princess Grace of Monaco - 17 April 1956.https://web.archive.org/web/20191018215221/https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/f21448e3f92f2af7c456689faa2dfa03.pdf Albert II of Belgium – 13 October 1957.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 1.636 of 13 October 1957. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg – 19 April 1958.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 1.757 of 19 April 1958. Moens de Fernig Georges – 22 November 1958.Sovereign Ordonnance n° 1.906 of 22 November 1958.