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Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes
Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes GCB GCVO QSO PC (born 11 Decemberhttp://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/bio/robertfellowesbio1941.html 1941) was Private Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1990–1999. He is also known as a brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales, mother of TRH Princes William and Harry.
Family backgroundHe was the son of Scots Guards Major Sir William (Billy) Fellowes, the Queen's Land Agent at Sandringham, and of his wife Jane, daughter of Brigadier-General AFH Ferguson (great-grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York). The Fellowes of Shotesham are an old country family, related to the Lords De Ramsey (senior branch). According to Michael Rhodes (a British genealogist specializing in the British aristocracy and landed gentry), "Lord De Ramsey descends from one Coulson Fellowes (1696-1769), and Lady Jane's husband, Lord Fellowes, descends from Coulson's younger brother, William, of Shotesham Park, Norfolk."http://groups.google.co.in/group/alt.talk.royalty/browse_thread/thread/41c58e66a361c28d/48393356357e9c1b?lnk=st&q=%22Lord+Fellowes%22&rnum=19&hl=en#48393356357e9c1b (Also, see this genealogyhttp://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ff/fellowes01.htm). Julian Fellowes, author of Gosford Park, is a distant cousin. Robert Fellowes married Lady Jane Spencer, elder sister of Diana Princess of Wales on 20 April 1978http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/bio/robertfellowesbio1941.html at Westminster Abbey when he was an Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen.http://groups.google.co.in/group/alt.talk.royalty/browse_thread/thread/e289b518a89a2dd1/9e3515b908b80746?lnk=st&q=%22Lord+Fellowes%22&rnum=32&hl=en#9e3515b908b80746 The then-Lady Diana Spencer was a bridesmaid. They have three children, Laura Jane Fellowes, 19 July 1980, Alexander Robert Fellowes, 23 March 1983 and Eleanor Ruth Fellowes, 20 August 1985. He has the unique distinction of not only being brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales, but also first cousin once removed of Sarah, Duchess of York through his mother, Jane. Early careerFellowes 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. Royal serviceIn 1977 Fellowes was recruited to join the Royal Household as Assistant Private Secretary. He spent the next 20 years in the Private Secretary's Office, becoming Deputy in 1986, and Private Secretary in 1990 to have earned relatively little, although this was offset by his grace and favour housing and other perks. Financial reasons, along with sheer exhaustion in an unusually strenuous period, might have forced his relatively early departure. Fellowes left his position in February 1999 to return to private banking, his retirement having been announced implicitly on 1 June 1998 when his successor Robin Janvrin was named. Later that year, he was given a life peerage, as Baron Fellowes, of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk[1] in the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 12 June 1999 http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldinfo/ld03mem/inf3e.htm, after first being knighted as Sir Robert Fellowes. Lord Fellowes was introduced to the House of Lords and took his seat formally on 26 October 1999. According to reports from the House of Lords, Lord Fellowes remains technically a member of the Royal Householdhttp://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200102/ldselect/ldconst/69/6906.htm. Curiously, Robin Janvrin (portrayed by Roger Allam) was a leading character in the 2006 film The Queen, although at the time of the film's storyline, which took place in 1997, Fellowes was still the monarch's private secretary.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436697 Return to private lifeAfter 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, the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth Institute. He became Chair of the Prison Reform Trust in 2001. Honours and decorationsBesides his Life Peerage, Lord Fellowes received the following honours:
He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1990. He remained Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit, as of 10 June 2005 when Baroness Boothroyd, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, was invested with the Order of Merit. Children1. Laura Jane Fellowes b. 19 Jul 1980. 2. Alexander Robert Fellowes b. 23 Mar 1983, now a fourth year Classicist at Trinity College, Oxford, was educated at Eton College like his father, maternal uncle and his royal cousins. He is President of the Claret Club, an Old Etonian Society. He made news recently when his role in a Bullingdon Club drunken brawl was revealed December 2006 and revived March 2007 in a story about Conservative leader David Cameron.http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2005wk0/news/bullingdon_brawl_ringleader_is_princess_diana's_nephew 3. Eleanor Ruth Fellowes b. 20 Aug 1985. Sources and citationsNotes 2. Job description for Assistant Private Secretary http://sympatico.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20040417/QUEEN17?section=HR as described by a journalist. References
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