Order of the Garter the Prime Minister Clement Attlee and the Leader of the Opposition Winston Churchill, membership of the United Kingdom's highest ranking orders of chivalry (the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle and the dormant Order of St. Patrick) became a personal gift of the Sovereign once again. Thus, the Sovereign personally selects Knights and Ladies Companion of the Garter, and need not act on or solicit the advice of His or Her Government. In addition, the Order includes supernumerary members, who do not count towards the limit of 24 companions. Several supernumerary members, known as "Royal Knights and
Order of the Holy Sepulchre shown the official titles of the ranks in English ("Italian, French, German, Spanish"): In English, a female member of this Order is sometimes titled "Lady". In accordance with standard chivalric practice in English, female members may be called "Dame" (from the Latin title "Domina", Italian "Dama", etc.) and this is the usual practice in most Lieutenancies: "Dame" is the usual English title of a female member of an order of chivalry; a "Lady" in terms of orders of chivalry is usually the wife of a member although there are exceptions, for example female members of the U.K. Order of the