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Shield: Azure, a Fess indented Ermine, between three Lions’ Heads erased Or, murally crowned Argent.
SOURCE, NOTES AND CREDITS: Illustration for background and the caption’s text adapted for the entry from the Wikipedia article.
Sir Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes GCB, GCVO, QSO, PC, born on 11 Dec 1941 to Scots Guards Major Sir William Fellowes, the Queen’s land agent at Sandringham and his wife Jane Charlotte Ferguson, daughter of Brigadier-General Algernon Francis Holford Ferguson (great-grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York). The Fellowes of Shotesham in Norfolk are an old country family, a junior branch to the Lords De Ramsey.
Fellowes married Lady Jane Spencer, elder sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 20 April 1978 at Westminster Abbey, when he was an assistant private secretary to the Queen. Diana (who married Charles, Prince of Wales in 1981) was a bridesmaid. Lord Fellowes had three children and five grandchildren. Lord Fellowes was thus uncle by marriage of Princes William and Harry.
In 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. Fellowes left his position in February 1999 to return to private banking, his retirement having been announced on 1 June 1998 when his successor Robin Janvrin was named.
He was created a life peer on 12 July 1999 taking the title Baron Fellowes, of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. He sat as a crossbench peer until his retirement on 10 February 2022.
Lord Fellowes remained technically a member of the Royal Household, having been appointed an Extra Equerry to the Queen following his retirement.
Lord Fellowes died on 29 July 2024, at the age of 82.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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