Join the Daughters of the British Empire

Are you a British ex-pat? Of British heritage? An Anglophile? Married to a Brit? Did you spend quarantine looking up your family tree or found out on 23 andMe that you have some Brit in you? Would you like to join a group of fun, charitable women? The Northern Virginia Pimm's and Poppies Chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire is the place for you. Please contact us at DBEinVA@gmail.com , if you would like to join.

We have a good time while doing good. There is almost always tea and Pimm’s Cups at each of our monthly meetings (hats and tiaras are up to you). Did you see us at the Scottish Walk? We are becoming regulars with our own Queen Victoria riding in the back of a convertible.

We have toured the British Embassy, gone to a fundraiser at the home of the Defense Attaché to the British Embassy, joined the British Officers Club for dinners celebrating the Queen, gone to a Titanic Tea, had fish and chips in DC and planted a tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy Project. Our first fundraiser was at the Little Theater of Alexandria's production of "A Christmas Carol" benefiting both a K-9 organization that provides service dogs to veterans and our own Victoria Homes and the following year we were back for a spooky Halloween production of "Dracula", adding Alice's Kids as another charity to benefit. We hosted a tea/baby shower for Kate and William, with the gifts going to a local charitable organization for children and a Royal Wedding watch party with the proceeds going to one of Meghan and Harry's charities. We’ve been to a tea shop in Fredericksburg and had a Guy Fawkes bonfire. We had a Tea and Fashion Show emceed by Alexandria's own Monte Durham of "Say Yes to the Dress, Atlanta".

Membership in the DBE, is extended to women who are residing in the USA who are of British or British Commonwealth heritage by birth, naturalization or ancestry, and to women who are the wives or partners of persons of British or Commonwealth heritage by birth, naturalization, or ancestry. And British isn't just Britain, it is the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales), the Isle of Man, and the entire Commonwealth.

WHAT IS THE DBE? For one hundred years, The Daughters of the British Empire (DBE) in the U.S.A. has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in America. Members, joining together in fellowship, contribute significantly to the good of their local communities, The DBE is a charitable, non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, voluntary American society of women of British or Commonwealth birth or ancestry. Its members are professionals, businesswomen and homemakers with common interests and heritage, who meet regularly for business and social events with the common cause of philanthropy. The society was founded in the United States on March 15, 1909.