Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

Robin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, of Chalford Hill in the County of Gloucestershire GCB GCVO QSO PC ( born September 20, 1946 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ) is a British diplomat, business leaders and politicians, who between 1999 and 2007 private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II was and is a life peer member of the House of Lords since 2007.

Life

Naval officer and diplomat

After attending Marlborough College Janvrin, son of the later vice-admiral Richard Janvrin occurred in 1964 in the Royal Navy, and first completed the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, before he then 1965 use on the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire ( D02 ) and then in 1970 took on the air defense frigate HMS Lynx ( F27 ). In the meantime, he studied at Brasenose College, University of Oxford and graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA) with honors. On March 4, 1971 was his promotion to lieutenant. Once in Shotley Ipswich, he worked between 1973-1974 naval training center referred to in the HMS Ganges ( Royal Naval Training Establishment), followed by a further use in the HMS Royal Arthur said Marine Training Centre in Corsham.

After his retirement from active military service in 1975 Janvrin joined as a diplomat in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO ) and Second Secretary in 1975 and 1976 First Secretary at the Permanent Mission to NATO. In 1978 he returned to the Foreign Ministry and joined in 1981 as First Secretary in the High Commission in India, before in 1984 he again became an employee in the FCO. He was most recently between 1985 and 1987 Council and Deputy Director of the Personnel Department of the Foreign Ministry.

Ascent to the private secretary to the Queen and the House of Lords member

1987 different Janvrin, who was Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 1983, from the diplomatic service, and joined the staff of Queen Elizabeth II, where he was the first between 1987 and 1990 Press Secretary. Subsequently, he was from 1990 to 1995 Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen, Robert Fellowes, and in 1994 was Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Subsequently, he served between 1996 and 1999 as Deputy Private Secretary Fellowes and was awarded during this period several times, first in 1997 as a Companion of the Order of the Bath, and then in 1998 as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, and he henceforth the additional name "Sir" led. At the same time he became Privy Councillor 1998.

In February 1999, Janvrin was the successor of Robert Fellowes finally even private secretary of Queen Elizabeth II and held that post for eight years until his replacement by Christopher Geidt in September 2007. For his achievements in the service of Her Majesty, he was honored on the one hand with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath and the other to the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the 2003 Order of the Bath, and 2007.

After completing his work as a royal private secretary Janvrin was raised by a Letters Patent of 10 October 2007 as a life peer with the title Baron Janvrin, of Chalford Hill in the County of Gloucestershire in the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was on 18 October 2007 his Introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the House of Lords he belongs to the group of so-called Cross Bencher.

In the aftermath looked Lord Janvrin, the 2008 Queen's Service Order was awarded, Deputy Chairman of the British HSBC Private Bank and a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.

Trivia

Janvrin was shown in Stephen Frears film The Queen (2006) by Roger Allam. Janvrin is here already in 1997 the first private secretary to the Queen, though he held the position until two years later. Apparently, this was done due to the fact that the actual private secretary Robert Fellowes, is married to a sister of the late Princess Diana. This would possibly lead to complications for the storyline.