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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Robin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, Template:Postnominals (born 20 September 1946) is a British naval officer, diplomat, and courtier who was private secretary to Elizabeth II from February 1999 to September 2007.

Early life

Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Robin Berry Janvrin is the son of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Janvrin and Nancy 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 philosophy, politics and economics[1] 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.

Career

Janvrin entered the Royal Navy in 1964, was commissioned as an acting sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1966,[2] promoted lieutenant on 4 March 1971,[3] and served until 2 July 1975.[4] 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.[5] 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[6] for services during the Queen's state visit to India.

Janvrin was then counsellor and deputy head of the Department for the Personnel Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1985 to 1987.

On 1 June 1987 Janvrin was recruited as press secretary to the Queen,[7] though it was initially thought that he would be appointed assistant press secretary. In 1990, he was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[8] On 19 October 1990 he became assistant private secretary to the Queen,[9] and in 1996 the deputy private secretary. He was promoted a commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1994 New Year Honours,[10] a companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1997 New Year Honours,[11] and a knight commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1998 New Year Honours,.[12] In February 1999 he succeeded Sir Robert Fellowes (later Lord Fellowes) as private secretary to the sovereign. He was promoted to knight commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2003 New Year Honours.[13]

Janvrin was also a trustee of the Queen's 80th Birthday Trust,[14] and was the chairman of trustees of The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry from 29 September 2009 to 1 April 2016.

Janvrin retired in September 2007, and was succeeded as private secretary by Christopher Geidt.[15] He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 2007 Birthday Honours[16] and, on 24 July, it was announced that Janvrin would be made a life peer, as one of the ten public servants per Parliament whom the Prime Minister may nominate for a peerage upon their retirement.[17][18] His title was gazetted as Baron Janvrin, of Chalford Hill in the County of Gloucestershire on 10 October,[19] and he sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords. On the day of his retirement, 8 September, Janvrin was also promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order by the Queen.[20] In October, the Queen appointed Lord Janvrin to be a permanent lord-in-waiting in the royal household.[21]

In the 2008 New Zealand New Year Honours, Lord Janvrin was made a companion of the Queen's Service Order for "services to New Zealand as Private Secretary to The Queen".[22]

On 7 January 2008 Janvrin took up his appointment of deputy chairman, HSBC Private Bank (UK). Janvrin is also chairman of The Leadership Council, a research and thought leadership body in the UK.[23] In 2008, he replaced Sir Christopher Mallaby as president of the British Entente Cordiale Scholarship trust.[24]

Marriage

Janvrin married Isabelle de Boissonneaux de Chevigny, daughter of French aristocrat Yann de Boissonneaux de Chevigny, in 1977.

In popular culture

Janvrin was portrayed by Roger Allam in Stephen Frears' The Queen (2006) starring Oscar-winner Dame Helen Mirren. The film, which deals with the immediate aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, inaccurately portrays Janvrin, then deputy private secretary to the Sovereign, as private secretary.[25] In 1997, the position of Private Secretary was occupied by Robert Fellowes - who was also Diana's brother-in-law, being married to her sister Jane.

Janvrin was portrayed by Jamie Parker in season 6 of The Crown. In episode 4, "Aftermath", Janvrin is depicted informing the Queen, Prince Charles, and The Duke of Edinburgh of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.[26]

Honours

On 10 October 2007 Sir Robert was raised to a peerage as Baron Janvrin.

File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg
File:UK Royal Victorian Order ribbon.svg File:Ribbon bar of the Queen's Service Medal.svg File:Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal ribbon.png File:CAN Commemorative Medal for the Centennial of Saskatchewan ribbon.svg
Country Date Appointment Ribbon Post-nominal letters Notes
United Kingdom 1983 Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order File:UK Royal Victorian Order ribbon.svg LVO[27] Was promoted to CVO in 1994
1994 Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO Was promoted to KCVO in 1998
1997 Companion of the Order of the Bath File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg CB Was promoted to KCB in 2003
1998 Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order File:UK Royal Victorian Order ribbon.svg KCVO Was promoted to GCVO in 2007
2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal File:Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal ribbon.png
2003 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg KCB Was promoted to GCB in 2007
Saskatchewan, Canada 2005 Commemorative Medal for the Centennial of Saskatchewan File:CAN Commemorative Medal for the Centennial of Saskatchewan ribbon.svg
United Kingdom 16 June 2007 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath File:Order of the Bath UK ribbon.svg GCB
8 September 2007 Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order File:UK Royal Victorian Order ribbon.svg GCVO
New Zealand 2008 Companion of the Queen's Service Order File:Ribbon bar of the Queen's Service Medal.svg QSO

Styles

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