Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

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Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

Robin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin GCB GCVO QSO PC (* 20th September 1946 in Cheltenham , Gloucestershire ) is a British diplomat , business leaders and politicians , who between 1999 and 2007 private secretary of Queen Elizabeth II. Was, and since 2007 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Naval officer and diplomat

After attending Marlborough College , Janvrin, son of the later Vice Admiral Richard Janvrin , joined the Royal Navy in 1964 and graduated from the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth before being used on the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire (D02) in 1965 and then in 1970 found on the anti-aircraft frigate HMS Lynx (F27) . In the meantime, he studied at Brasenose College of Oxford University and graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with honors. On March 4, 1971, he was promoted to lieutenant at sea . After he worked between 1973 and 1974 in the HMS Ganges naval training center ( Royal Naval Training Establishment ) in Shotley near Ipswich , another assignment followed in the naval training center in Corsham called HMS Royal Arthur .

After retiring from active military service, Janvrin joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a diplomat in 1975 and became Second Secretary in 1975 and First Secretary at the Permanent Mission to NATO in 1976 . In 1978 he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in 1981 moved as First Secretary to the High Commission in India before returning to the FCO in 1984. Most recently, between 1985 and 1987, he was Councilor and Deputy Head of Human Resources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Rise to the Queen's Private Secretary and House of Lords Member

In 1987 Janvrin, who was named Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 1983 , left the diplomatic service and joined the staff of Queen Elizabeth II , where he was first press secretary between 1987 and 1990. He was then assistant to the Queen's private secretary, Robert Fellowes , from 1990 to 1995 , and in 1994 he became Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. He then acted as deputy private secretary Fellowes between 1996 and 1999. During this time he was named Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1997 and knighted as Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1998 , whereupon he continued to use the suffix "Sir". At the same time he became Privy Councilor in 1998 .

In February 1999, Janvrin succeeded Robert Fellowes as the private secretary of Queen Elizabeth II and held this office for eight years until he was replaced by Christopher Geidt in September 2007. For his services to Her Majesty he was knighted commander of the Order of the Bath in 2003 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 2007 .

After completing his duties as royal private secretary, Janvrin was raised to life peer status as Baron Janvrin , of Chalford Hill in the County of Gloucestershire, by a letters patent dated October 10, 2007 . Shortly thereafter, on October 18, 2007, he was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the Crossbencher faction .

In the following years, Lord Janvrin, who was awarded the Queen's Service Order in 2008, was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management of the British HSBC Private Bank and Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery .

Trivia

Janvrin was portrayed in Stephen Frear's film The Queen (2006) directed by Roger Allam . Janvrin was the Queen's first private secretary here as early as 1997, although he only held the position two years later. Apparently this happened due to the fact that the actual private secretary, Robert Fellowes , is married to a sister of the late Princess Diana. This might have led to complications for the course of action.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 11, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 11, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 11, 2012)