An uncle of Prince William and Prince Harry, who also worked for the late Queen, has died. Lord Robert Fellowes, the husband of William and Harry’s aunt Jane, passed away earlier this week at the age of 82.
Jane, an older sister of the late Princess Diana, had been married to him for more than 40 years and they had three children – Laura, Alexander, and Eleanor – who are all cousins of William and Harry. Laura is also a godmother to Princess Charlotte.
Not only was he related to royalty, but Lord Fellowes also worked as private secretary to the late Queen during some of the most dramatic times in the 1990s. He was in the role when his sister-in-law Diana died at the age of 36 following a car crash in Paris in 1997.
He was part of her small trusted group of advisors, who guided the Royal Family during the turbulent time and, according to The Times, which first ran his obituary, helped to write the speech Elizabeth II gave to the nation from Buckingham Palace on the eve of Diana’s funeral.