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Household of George VI and Elizabeth

The Households of George VI and Queen Elizabeth were made up of office-holders and staff supporting the work of King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth (known, after the death of her husband, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother).

The future George VI (1895–1952) was the second son of George V. He was created Duke of York in 1920 and married Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) in 1923. The Duke succeeded to the throne following the abdication of his brother King Edward VIII (whose reign had lasted just under a year). As King, George VI inherited his a sovereign's Household from his brother; when the new Household was announced in March 1937,[1] many of the office-holders were the same as had been appointed to the Household of Edward VIII seven months earlier.[2]

As Queen, Elizabeth maintained her own Household (as was then traditional for a consort). Her Household was announced in 1937, initially consisting of a Mistress of the Robes, four Ladies of the Bedchamber, four Women of the Bedchamber (plus one 'extra'), her own Lord Chamberlain and a Treasurer.[3] After the death of her husband in 1952, her Household was known as the Household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Household of the Duke of York (1920-1923) and of the Duke and Duchess of York (1923-1936)

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Comptroller

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Deputy Comptroller

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Private Secretary

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Assistant Private Secretary

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  • 1930-1933: Cdr Harold Campbell (Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry)[10]

Equerry

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Extra Equerry

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Ladies-in-Waiting

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  • 1923–1926: Lady Katharine Meade[15]
  • 1926–1932: Lady Helen Graham[16]
  • 1932–1936: The Hon. Mrs Geoffrey Bowlby[17]

Extra Ladies-in-Waiting

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  • 1929–1936: The Lady Annaly[18]

Physicians

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Surgeons

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Household of King George VI 1936-1952

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Lord Chamberlain

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Lord Steward

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Master of the Horse

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Private Secretary

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Keeper of the Privy Purse

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Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office

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Master of the Household

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Crown Equerry

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Equerries

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Grooms in Waiting

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Household of Queen Elizabeth (1936-1952) afterwards Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1952-2002)

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Lord Chamberlain

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Comptroller

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Private secretary

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  • 1937–1946: Lt Col. Richard John Streatfeild
  • 1946–1951: Maj. Thomas Harvey
  • 1951–1956: Capt. Oliver Dawnay[32][33] (Private Secretary and Equerry from 1953)[34]
  • 1956–1993: Lt-Col. Sir Martin Gilliat[35] (Private Secretary and Equerry)
  • 1993–2002: Capt. Sir Alastair Aird[31] (Private Secretary, Comptroller and Equerry)[36]

Treasurer

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Assistant private secretary

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  • 1956–1959: Maj. the Hon. Francis Michael Legh (Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry)[40]
  • 1959–1964: Maj. Sir Ralph Anstruther, Bt[38][41] (Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry)[42]
  • 1964–1973: Capt. Alastair Aird (Assistant Private Secretary and Extra Equerry)[43]
  • 1973-1993: vacant
  • 1993–2002: Maj. Raymond Seymour (Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry)[36]

Press secretary

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  • 1959–1991: Maj. Sir John Griffin (Press Secretary and Extra Equerry)

Equerry

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  • 1959–1984: Maj. the Hon. Sir Francis Legh
  • 1984–1993: Maj. Raymond Seymour[44]

Extra Equerry

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Temporary Equerry

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  • 1955-1956: Maj. Raymond Seymour[48]
  • 1956–1958: Maj. John Griffin[40]
  • 1958–1960: Maj. William Richardson[46]
  • 1960–1964: Capt. Alastair Aird[49]
  • 1964: Capt. David J. McMicking[43]
  • 1966-1968: Capt. Peter H. Norman[50]
  • 1968-1970: Capt. R. L. Jenkins
  • 1970-1972: Capt. I. W. Farquhar
  • 1972-1974: Capt. Charles B. D. Baker[51]
  • 1974-1976: Capt. J. D. Miller
  • 1976-1978: Capt. R. H. Grimshaw
  • 1978-1980: Capt. J. J. Mainwaring-Burton
  • 1980–1982: Capt. Ashe Windham
  • 1982–1984: Capt. Jeremy Stopford
  • 1984–1986: Capt. Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
  • 1986–1988 Capt. Niall Hall
  • 1988–1990 Capt. Giles Bassett
  • 1990-1992: Capt. C. R. Morris-Adams
  • 1992–1994: Capt. the Hon. Edward Dawson-Damer[52]
  • 1994–1996: Maj. Colin Burgess
  • 1996-1998: Maj. Andrew Charles Burrell MacEwan
  • 1998-2000: Capt. William Jonathan de Rouet[53]
  • 2000–2002: Capt. Mark Patrick Munro Grayson[54]

Mistress of the Robes

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Ladies of the Bedchamber

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  • 1937–1941: Viscountess Halifax[3] (extra 1946–?)
  • 1937–1947: Lady Nunburnholme[3]
  • 1937–1972: Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer[56]
  • 1937–1994: Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden[3] (as Dowager Viscountess from 1948)
  • 1945–1967: Lady Harlech (extra 1941–1945; as Dowager Lady from 1964)
  • 1947–1979: Katherine Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough, as Dowager Countess from 1969
  • 1973–2002: Lady Grimthorpe (daughter of Katherine, Countess of Scarbrough)
  • 1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough

Women of the Bedchamber

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Extra Women of the Bedchamber

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Apothecary to the Household

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Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household (Royal Lodge, Windsor)

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  • 1956–1965: Dr Richard May[45]
  • 1965-1986: Dr John P. Clayton[85]
  • 1986-1997: Dr John Briscoe
  • 1997-2002: Dr Jonathan Holliday

Honorific positions

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Pages of Honour

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See also

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References

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