Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes

Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes GCB GCVO QSO PC (born December 11, 1941 ) is a British economic manager who was the private secretary of Queen Elizabeth II between 1990 and 1999 and has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1999 .

Life

Rise to the Queen's Private Secretary and Awards

After attending school, Fellowes did military service with the Scots Guards between 1960 and 1963 and was last promoted to lieutenant . Then he was in the private sector operates, and finally from 1968 to 1977 director at broker - financial services companies Allen Harvey & Ross.

He then moved to Queen Elizabeth II's secretariat in 1977 and was initially assistant to private secretary Philip Moore and, between 1986 and 1990, deputy to private secretary William Heseltine , before he finally succeeded Heseltine as the Queen's private secretary in 1990 and held this office until 1999 . Successor as the Queen's private secretary was then Robert Janvrin .

During his many years of activity he has received several awards. He was first Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 1982 and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1987 . In 1989 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". He also became Privy Councilor in 1990 and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1991. Most recently he was made the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1998 and the Order of the Bath in 1998, before being awarded the Queen's Service Order in 1999.

Member of the House of Lords and functions in the private sector

Fellowes, who has been married to Jane Spencer, the older sister of the future Princess Diana , since 1978 and is also a grand cousin of Sarah Ferguson , the Duchess of York , was named after his duties as royal private secretary by a letters patent dated July 12, 1999 as Baron Fellowes , of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk, raised to Life Peer. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

In the period that followed, he returned to work in the private sector, including being chairman of Barclays Private Bank and, from 1999 to 2010, a member of the supervisory board of brewery company SABMiller . He has also been a trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust since 2001 , of which he has been chairman since 2009, and chairman of the Prison Reform Trust from 2001 to 2008. He was also a trustee of the Rhodes Trust from 1999 to 2010, of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation between 2003 and 2010, and chairman of the Voices Foundation from 2004 to 2012.

Lord Fellowes, who is a member of the Livery Company of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and President of the Advisory Board of Goodenough College , has also served as Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Education Trust since 2006, as a board member of the British Library since 2007 , and as trustee of the Global Warming Policy since 2009 Foundation and since 2010 as a member of the Council of King Edward VII Hospital Sister Agnes.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 5, 2012)
• Mr Robert Fellowes at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 5, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 5, 2012)