Christopher Geidt

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The Right Honourable  Christopher Geidt  CVO OBE
Private Secretary to the Sovereign
Incumbent
Assumed office  September 8, 2007
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Rt. Hon. Sir Robin Janvrin
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt CVO OBE is currently the Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II.

Geidt joined the Royal Household in 2002 after serving with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations in Sarajevo, Geneva, and Brussels. He was Private Secretary to Carl Bildt, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans, before taking a sabbatical year at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2001. He was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen in 2002 in succession to Tim Hitchens who returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following his secondment.

Geidt is a graduate of King's College London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 "for service in Bosnia", appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in June 2007 and sworn of the Privy Council in July 2007.^[1] It is traditional that the Sovereign's Private Secretary is a Privy Counsellor, to assist him in supporting Her Majesty in relation to government papers which come before The Queen.

Geidt was Deputy Private Secretary to The Queen from 2005 until his promotion to Private Secretary on 8 September 2007 after the retirement of his predecessor, Lord Janvrin. Edward Young has succeeded Christopher Geidt as Deputy Private Secretary.

[edit] References

1. ^ Announcement of Christopher Geidt being sworn of the Privy Council. Number 10. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.

[edit] Offices held

Court offices
Preceded by Mary Francis	Deputy Secretary to the Sovereign 2005–2007	Succeeded by Edward Young
Preceded by Lord Janvrin	Private Secretary to the Sovereign 2007–present	Succeeded by Incumbent