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Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

The Right Honourable
The Lord Janvrin
GCB GCVO QSO PC
Private Secretary to the Sovereign
In office
1999–2007
Monarch Queen Elizabeth II
Preceded by Sir Robert Fellowes
Succeeded by Sir Christopher Geidt
Personal details
Born (1946-09-20) 20 September 1946 (age 70)
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.

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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