Robin Janvrin
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The Right Honourable The Lord Janvrin GCB GCVO QSO PC |
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| Private Secretary to the Sovereign | |
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In office 1999–2007 |
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| Monarch | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Robert Fellowes |
| Succeeded by | Sir Christopher Geidt |
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| Born |
20 September 1946 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Isabelle de Boissonneaux de Chevigny |
| Alma mater | Britannia Royal Naval College and Brasenose College, Oxford |
Robin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin GCB GCVO QSO PC (born 20 September 1946 in Cheltenham, England, UK) was the Private Secretary to Elizabeth II from February 1999 to September 2007. Janvrin was also a Trustee of the Queen's 80th Birthday Trust and is the chairman of trustees of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
A native of Gloucestershire, Robin Berry Janvrin is the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Richard Benest Janvrin and Nancy Edyth Fielding. He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College, Oxford from which he received a first class bachelor's degree in 1969, and of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1999. In 1962, he was selected to attend Camp Rising Sun in upstate New York.
Janvrin entered the Royal Navy in 1964, was commissioned as an acting sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1966, promoted lieutenant on 4 March 1971, and served until 2 July 1975. He subsequently became a member of the Castaways' Club. On leaving the Navy, Janvrin joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He was a Second Secretary in 1975 and was appointed First Secretary at the mission to NATO in 1976. He was officially appointed an Officer of the Diplomatic Service on 7 February 1979. Janvrin was First Secretary in New Delhi from 1981 to 1984, during which time he was made a Member of the 4th Class of the Royal Victorian Order for services during the state visit by The Queen to India.
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