New Year Honour List 2024 appointments to the Royal Victorian Order

His Majesty has appointed or promoted the following within the Royal Victorian Order as part of the New Years Honour List 2024.


Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
The Right Honourable and the Most Reverend Justin Portal Welby

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
Colonel Edward Thomas Bolitho OBE
The Very Reverend Dr David Michael Hoyle MBE


Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)
Ms Rowena Jane Feilden CVO


Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Mr Ian Angus Campbell
Ms Sophia Louisa Densham LVO
Mr Patric Laurence Dickinson LVO
Dr Veronica Mary Geneste Ferguson LVO
Mr Alastair Gilbert Martin
The Right Honourable The Lord Offord of Garvel
Sir Antonio Pappano
Professor James Roy Robertson LVO MBE

Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)
Mr Ian Scott Anderson MVO
Mr Mark Appleby
Colonel Jeremy David Bagshaw CBE
Major Grant Vincent Ashley Baker
Mr Paul David Baumann CBE
Mr Charles Harcourt James Davies MVO
Ms Karen Ross Findlay
Dr Michael Terence Isaac
Air Vice-Marshal Richard Howard Lacey CBE
Ms Charlotte Elizabeth Martin MVO
Mr Jonathan David Rogerson Martin
Mr Ian Donald McCowan
Professor Paul Mealor
Mr Graham Paul Midgley
Mr Gavin Donald Reid
Mr Paul John Sedgwick
Lieutenant Colonel James Edward Noel Bridgeman Shaw
Mr Nicholas Kester Smith
Mr David William Courtenay Whelton OBE
Mr James Wyndham Williams


Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
Mr Russell Adams RVM
Captain Andrew Mark Aspden
Mr Ian Charles Bartlett
Mr Nicholas John Birch
Mr Ian Leslie Bullock RVM
Ms Emma Jane Clarke
Ms Nicola Charlotte Craig
Mr Andrew John Cranidge
Ms Anne Maria Curran
Ms Sarah Louise Davis
Ms Julie Elizabeth Denby
Mr Michael Robert Duncan
Ms Hannah Elizabeth Evans
Mr David Irwin Foy
Mr Christopher William Andrew Hallworth
Ms Stephanie Kate Howard
Ms Adelaide Georgina Gray Izat
Mr Daniel James Kevin Johnson
Mr Kevin Malkin
Ms Louise Michelle Walker-Pickett
Ms Nicola Jane Pritchard
Warrant Officer Class 1 David Alexander Roper
Warrant Officer Class 2 Julian Philip Desmond Sandford
Mr Christopher Charles Savage
Mr Derrick Andrew Scott
Mr Thomas Nicholas McKinlay Service
Ms Elizabeth Fiona St Clair
Ms Kathryn Elizabeth Stone
Mr Paul Stonell
Mr Christopher Tombling
Ms Karen Louise Willemsen

Bar to the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)
Mr Gary William Adams RVM
Mr Andrew John Buckland RVM
Mr Neil Hepple Dodds RVM
Mr Jose Manuel Lazarczuk RVM

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)
Mr Andrew David Basson
Mr Gary Clarke
Mr Edward Peter Evans
Mr Malcolm Greenland
Ms Helen Hitchcock
Ms Isabel Lorna Laylo
Mr Matthew Simon Murphy
Mr Timothy James Rayson
Ms Elisabeth Michelle Roberts
Corporal of the Horse Kate Elizabeth Sandford
Mr James Richard Shaw
Ms Fiona Ailsa Smith
Mr John Spelzini
Ms Monica Jane Tandy
Ms Vanessa Anne Wakeford
Mr Barry James Whearty

Honorary Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)
Mr Jorge Manuel Martins Fernandes José

GCVO for Former Dean of Windsor

The Right Reverend David John Conner KCVO has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Dean of The King’s Free Chapel of St George at Windsor Castle, Domestic Chaplain, and Register of the Order of the Garter.

GCVO for Former Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty The King

The Rt Hon. Sir Edward Young KCVO has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty The King and former Private Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen's Birthday Honour List 2022 appointments to the Royal Victorian Order

Her Majesty has appointed or promoted the following within the Royal Victorian Order as part of the Queen's Birthday Honour List 2022.

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

His Grace The Duke of Norfolk DL

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Mr Clive Alderton CVO
Mr Ashok Jivraj Rabheru CVO DL

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)

Ms Susan Elizabeth Pyper

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

Sir Lloyd Marshall Dorfman CBE
Ms Diane Angela Duke LVO DL
Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia DBE
Mr Guy Henderson
Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Roy Holcroft LVO OBE
Ms Elizabeth Harriet Bowes-Lyon LVO
Ms Anne Caroline Maw
Ms Helen Gwenllian Nellis
Mr John Frederick Rufus Warren

Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)

Mr Eric Kenneth James Crawford MVO
Colonel Duncan Andrew Dewar OBE
Mr Paul Colin Duffree
Mr Keith Anthony Harrison
Air Vice-Marshal David Anthony Hobart CB
Mr Anthony Eugene George Hylton
Captain Nigel Lamplough Williams

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Mr Paul William Duckett RVM
Ms Karen Janet Emmerson
Mr Christopher Gay RVM
Mr Benjamin Charles Goss OBE
Mr Edward Ernest Green MBE
Dr Matthew Simon Evans Hardy
Mr Michael Graham Hunter
Ms Saranne Elizabeth Malone
Mr Peter McGowran
Ms Jane McKeown
Mr Marc O’Shea
Ms Tina Marie Pipet
Ms Michelle Marie Redpath RVM
Ms Carys Angharad Rees JP
Ms Anna Louise Reynolds
Ms Lorraine Rogers
Ms Carly Anne Rose
Ms Amy Victoria Stocker
Ms Henrietta Matilda Woodford

Honorary Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Mr Jason Clancy

Royal Victorian Medal (Gold) (RVM)

Mr Alan Melton RVM

Bar to the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)

Mr John Paul Fallis RVM
Mr Bruce David Kearsey RVM

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)

Mr James Adam Banham
Ms Marie Ann Barenskie
Ms Jean Margaret Calder
Mr Kenneth Francis Comley
Mr Colin Bryson Coull
Mr James Ekow Eshun
Mr Gary David Flynn
Ms Anne Taylor McCarthy
Mr Malcolm Roberts
Mr Steven Paul Spong
Mr Andrew Jay Stubbs
Mr Christopher Phillip Thomas
Mr Ross Frederick Wheatley

GCVO for The New Lord Chamberlain

The Right Honourable The Lord Parker of Minsmere KCB has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) following his appointment as Lord Chamberlain.

GCVO for Queen’s Racing Adviser

As part of the New Year’s Honours List for 2020, Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Sir William Richard Michael Oswald KCVO, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as National Hunt Racing adviser.

GCVO for Former Dean of the Chapels Royal

The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Baron Chartres KCVO has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Dean of the Chapels Royal.

GCVO for Former Colonel of the Life Guards and Gold Stick in Waiting

Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB, LVO, OBE, DL has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Colonel of the Life Guards and Gold Stick in Waiting.

GCVO for Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge has been appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for her service to Her Majesty The Queen.

GCVO for The Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Andrew Ford KCVO has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

GCVO for The Master of the Horse

The Rt Hon. The Lord Vestey GCStJ has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Master of the Horse.

GCVO for Receiver-General at Westminster Abbey

Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport KCVO has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Receiver-General at Westminster Abbey.

GCVO for His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh

His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service to Her Majesty The Queen.

Life Peerage for the Former Private Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen

Her Majesty The Queen has granted The Rt Hon. Sir Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt GCVO KCB OBE the title of Baron Geidt, of Crobeg in the County of Ross and Cromarty for the duration of his life under the Life Peerage Act of 1958.

Sir Christopher was nominated for a Life Peerage following his retirement as Private Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen.

Lord Geidt will sit in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher.

GCVO for Outgoing Private Secretary to Her Majesty The Queen

The Rt Hon. Sir Christopher Geidt KCB KCVO OBE has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Private Secretary to Her Majesty The Queen.

Honorary GCVO for Outgoing Commonwealth Secretary-General

His Excellency Mr Kamalesh Sharma has been appointed Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Commonwealth Secretary-General.

GCVO for Queen’s Ambassador to France

On the 27th June 2014, Sir Peter Forbes Ricketts GCMG was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Ambassador to France.

GCVO for Lady in Waiting to the Queen

The Hon. Dame Mary Anne Morrison DCVO has been appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for her service as Lady in Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen.

GCVO for Lady in Waiting to the Queen

The Lady Susan Katharine Hussey DCVO has been appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for her service as Lady in Waiting to Her Majesty the Queen.

GCVO for Queen’s Treasurer

On the 13th of September 2012, Sir Philip Alan Reid KCVO was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for his service as Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to Her Majesty the Queen.