Queen’s ex-private secretary gets third honour in as many months

LORD GEIDT, the Queen’s former private secretary, received his third honour in as many months after being made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

Lord Geidt, 56, was the first private secretary to be ousted since the Queen came to the throne, following tensions with the Prince of Wales’s household.

In October the Queen appointed him Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, an upgrade to one of two knighthoods he held. Downing Street then gave him a life peerage to sit in the Lords as a cross-bencher.

He now receives an upgrade to his second knighthood, moving up from Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).

It means the former Scots Guards officer holds the most senior rank in two of the five orders of chivalry.