Robert Fellowes

The Right Honourable the Lord Fellowes of Shotesham, GCB GCVO QSO PC was Private Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1990-1999. He was born 1941, son of Major Sir William Fellowes, Agent at Sandringham, and of Jane, daughter of Brigadier-General AFH Ferguson (grandfather of the Duchess of York). The Fellowes of Shotesham are an old country family. He married Lady Jane Spencer, sister of Diana Princess of Wales. Robert Fellowes was educated at Eton College and joined the Scots Guards in 1960 on a short service commission. After completion of service in 1963 he entered the banking industry, working for Allen Harvey and Ross Ltd, Discount Brokers and Bankers, 1964-77. He was a managing director from 1968.

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Right Honourable - GCB - GCVO - QSO - Private Secretary - Queen Elizabeth II - 1990 - 1999 - 1941 - Shotesham - Diana Princess of Wales - Eton College - Scots Guards - 1960 - 1963 - 1968

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In 1977 Fellowes was recruited to join the Royal Household as Assistant Private Secretary. He spent the next twenty years in the Private Secretary's Office, becoming Deputy in 1986, and Private Secretary in 1990. He also held the appointment of Extra Equerry, and was ex offico Keeper of the Queen's Archives while Private Secretary. From 1993 he was also a trustee of the Royal Collection Trust. He retired in 1999 and was given a life peerage, as Baron Fellowes of Shotesham .

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1977 - 1986 - 1990 - Queen's Archives - 1993 - Royal Collection - 1999 - Peerage

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After retirement from the Royal Household Lord Fellowes became Vice-Chairman, and then Chairman, of Barclays Private Banking. He is also a company director, and a trustee of the Rhodes Trust, and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth Institute.

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Barclays - Rhodes Trust - Winston Churchill Memorial Trust - Commonwealth Institute

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Lord Fellowes received the following honours:

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GCB 1998 (KCB 1991, CB 1987) GCVO 1996 (KCVO 1989, LVO 1983) QSO 1999. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1990.

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GCB - KCB - CB - GCVO - KCVO - LVO - QSO - Privy Counsellor

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