Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

The Rt Hon Sir Robin Janvrin, KCB KCVO, was born in 1946, and educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth and Brasenose College of the University of Oxford, from which he received a First class BA degree in 1969, and later an MA.

He entered the Royal Navy in 1964, and served until 1975. He then 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. Robin Janvrin was First Secretary in New Delhi 1981-84, during which he was made a LVO for services during the state visit by Her Majesty The Queen to India.

Janvrin was then Counsellor and Deputy Head of Department for the Personnel Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1985-87.

In 1987 he was recruited as Press Secretary to The Queen, though it was initially thought that he would be appointed Assistant Press Secretary. In 1990 he became Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen, and in 1996 the Deputy Private Secretary. In February 1999 he succeeded the Rt Hon Lord Fellowes, GCB GCVO QSO PC, as Private Secretary to the Sovereign.

In 1994 he was made a CVO, and was promoted to KCVO in 1998. In 1997 he was made a CB, and was advanced to KCB in 2003.