Christopher Trevor-Roberts

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Trevor-Roberts (b. North Wales d. 5 May 2005 aged 77) was an educator who taught all four children of Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Bromsgrove School.

Christopher Trevor-Roberts is credited with helping Prince Charles overcome his aversion to mathematics. His methods were unconventional, and included teaching children in local restaurants and keeping chickens.

Though he initially trained as an opera singer "TR", as he was known, set up his first school in the early 1960s in his house in the Vale of Health in Hampstead. As the house dining room was not large enough to accommodate the 20 pupils at the school, he regularly led the children to Hampstead's Moonlight Chinese restaurant where they ate from one of the set menus

When Sir Martin Charteris, the Queen's then private secretary, heard of TR's abilities he summoned him to Buckingham Palace to coach Prince Charles. Trevor-Roberts went on to teach Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and the children of Princess Margaret.

Several other famous people sent their children to him, including musicians such as Sir George Solti and Lulu.

The preparatory school he founded in London is now run by his son and daughter.