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He served as private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II for nine years, and was married to Princess Diana’s sister,

Lady Jane Spencer for 46 yearsThe British courtier was the late monarch’s most important adviser during the divorces of three of her children and the late Princess of Wales’s death in 1997.

Lord Fellowes helped the Queen through a particularly difficult year in 1992 – which she dubbed her “annus horribilis” – as it was the year Charles and Diana separated,

Andrew and Sarah separated, Anne got divorced and Windsor Castle went up in flames.