- Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set. - Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan (born April 10, 1963 in London) is an English Academy Award nominated screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for writing "The Deal", a 2003 television drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London; and for "The Queen", a 2006 movie starring Helen Mirren that showed the impact of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales on the British royal family. - Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen (born 5 February 1969) is an award-winning Welsh actor, known for his work on stage and film, best known for his portrayal of Tony Blair in the Stephen Frears 2006 British film "The Queen". - Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. He most recently scored the music for the movie "Firewall", a primarily digital, synthesized soundtrack. Other scores include "The Luzhin Defence", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Syriana", "Birth", "Casanova" and "The Painted Veil", for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. - Prince Michael Of Kent
Prince Michael of Kent (Michael George Charles Franklin; born 4 July 1942) is a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of King George V and Queen Mary. Prince Michael of Kent does not officially carry out royal duties on behalf of his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, although he has represented the Queen in some functions abroad. Instead, he manages his own consultancy business, and undertakes various commercial work around the world. - Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an award-winning English actor best known for his appearance in "The Queen" (2006) in which he played the role of HRH The Prince of Wales. - Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory (born on 17 August 1968) is an English actress known primarily for her stage and television work. She studied acting at the Drama Centre, part of the University of the Arts London. In 2002 she was nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (playing Elena in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at the Donmar Warehouse). She was nominated for a 2006 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her most recent stage work, … - Roger Allam
Roger Allam is an English actor, best known for his stage career. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of "Les Misérables". He has been nominated three times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning once. He has also been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in many radio dramas for the BBC. In 2001, he starred in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of "Les Misérables", … - James Patrick
Major James H L Patrick, MVO Irish Guards, was Equerry to The Queen 1992-1995. He obtained a BSC(Hons) at university, and joined the Irish Guards. He was promoted to Captain 13 April 1991. He was acting Major when Equerry to the Queen, and from 15 March 1996. He was made MVO in 1995. - Craig Brown
Craig Brown (born May 23 1957) is a British satirist and writer probably best known for his work in "Private Eye". He was educated at Eton and Bristol University and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to "The Tatler", "The Spectator", "The Times Literary Supplement", "Literary Review", the "Evening Standard" (as a regular columnist), … - Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress best known for her role as the fearsome Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers". Born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, she has had a long and distinguished career as an actress mostly in comic roles. Her early film roles included "Pride and Prejudice" and "Hobson's Choice". Her first career break came with the early 1960s sitcom, … - Robin Janvrin
Sir Robin Berry Janvrin, GCB, KCVO (born 1946) is the Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College of the University of Oxford, from which he received a First class bachelor's degree in 1969, and later a master's degree. He entered the Royal Navy in 1964, and served until 1975. He then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. - Timothy Laurence
Vice-Admiral Timothy James Hamilton Laurence, CB, MVO, CSM, ADC(P) (born 1 March 1955) was Equerry to The Queen from 1986 to 1989 and is the second husband of Anne, Princess Royal. He was born in Camberwell, South London, the son of Guy Stewart Laurence (a salesman for a marine-engine manufacturer) and Barbara Alison Laurence, née Symons - Paul Wright
Sir Paul Hervé Giraud Wright KCM, OBE (12 May 1915 - 10 June 2005) was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Congo and to Lebanon. His wife Beatrice ("Babs"), who he married in 1942, had succeeded her late husband John as Member of Parliament for Bodmin, but did not contest the 1945 general election. She bore him one child, and had two children by her pevious marriage, including Tim, who later become a Conservative MP. - Christopher Hill
The Right Reverend Christopher John Hill (born 1945), is Lord Bishop of Guildford (from 2004) and Clerk of the Closet in the Ecclesiastical Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2005. Hill was educated at King's College London. He served his first curacy at Tividale in the diocese of Lichfield from 1969 to 1973; he was then curate of Codsall from 1973 to 1974. - Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is a British writer of humorous poetry. Pam Ayres was born at Stanford in the Vale in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). After leaving Farringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant. It has recently been revealed that she was working for MI5, the Security Service. She soon left there to sign up to the Women's Royal Air Force, … - Peter O'Sullevan
Peter O'Sullevan (born in Ireland on 2 March, 1918) was a BBC horse racing commentator (1947-1997) and racing correspondent for the Press Association, Daily Express and Today. He is one of the most respected people in horse-racing and broadcasting, and counts the likes of Lester Piggott, Vincent O'Brien and JP McManus as his friends. He is also close to a number of French racing people including trainer Francois Doumen and owner Marquesa De Moratalla. - Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew (1595 – March 22, 1640) was an English poet. He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife, Alice Ingpenny, widow of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of London. The poet was probably the third of the eleven children of his parents, and was born in West Wickham in Kent, in the early part of 1595; he was thirteen years old in June 1608, when he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford. He took his degree of B.A. early in 1611, … - Gray O'Brien
Gray O'Brien (born 11 August, 1968) is a Scottish actor who has appeared in "The Queen", "Casualty", and "Taggart". He has been cast for the 2007 "Doctor Who" Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned". - Elspet Gray
Elspet Gray, The Lady Rix, (born 12 April 1929 in Inverness, Scotland) is a Scottish actress who is known for playing The Queen in the first series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder". Elspet Gray has appeared in many television programmes, her first appearance being in "Love in Waiting" in 1948. She has also appeared in "Fawlty Towers", a 1983 "Doctor Who" story, "dinnerladies", "Catweazle", … - Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans is a Welsh soprano from the village of Pontrhydyfen near Neath. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has performed regularly at the Welsh National Opera; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. - Malcolm Ross
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (Walter Hugh) Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE (b.1943), is a member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, and since 2006 of the Prince of Wales. Sir Malcolm was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served in the Scots Guards from 1964 to 1987, holding the posts of Adjutant at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1977-1979, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1982. - John Beckett
John Beckett, QC, is a Scottish lawyer and former Solicitor General for Scotland. Beckett was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1993. He was on the defence team for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi during the Lockerbie trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands. He has served as an Advocate Depute and a Senior Advocate Depute since 2003. He took Silk in 2005. He was appointed Principal Advocate Depute from 1 January 2006. - James Ogilvy
James Robert Bruce Ogilvy (born 29 February 1964) is the elder child and only son of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy and the late Sir Angus Ogilvy. He was born in Thatched House Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey. His maternal grandparents were Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, known after her marriage as Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. - Dave Richards
Sir Dave Richards (born Walkley, Sheffield, England) is chairman of the FA Premier League, chairman of The Football Foundation, an FA Board Director and vice-chairman of The FA International committee. Richards is also chairman of UEFA's Professional Football Committee and former chairman of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. In 2006 Richards received a knighthood in the Queen's birthday honours list. The former businessman ran a group of companies involved in engineering, … - Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel; born 25 December 1936), is a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of George V. She was married to the late Sir Angus Ogilvy. Prior to her marriage she was known as Princess Alexandra of Kent. She is known in the family as Alex. Princess Alexandra carries out royal duties on behalf of her cousin, The Queen. - Francis Dereham
Francis Dereham (died 10 December, 1541) was most famous for his affair with Queen Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England. This affair lasted until Catherine was made Lady-in-waiting to Henry's fourth wife Anne of Cleves. Dereham was made a secretary at Hampton Court, possibly engineered by Agnes Tilney, dowager Duchess of Norfolk to silence him about their previous indiscretions. - Harry Worth
Harry Worth (real name Harry Illingsworth) (born 20 November 1917 in Tankersley near Barnsley, Yorkshire - 20 July 1989) was an English comedy actor, His standard performance was as a genial, bumbling middle-class and middle-aged man from the North of England, who reduced all who came into contact with him to a state of frustration. - Robert Hudson
Robert Hudson (born 30 January 1920) is a former broadcaster for the BBC, primarily on radio but also on television, between 1947 and 1981. He commentated on cricket and rugby union, as well as on many state occasions. He also covered a number of royal tours abroad. He was particularly noted for the throughness of the research that he conducted in preparation for his broadcasts. He was responsible for the launch of Test Match Special (TMS) in 1957, … - Peter Wentworth
Peter Wentworth (1530 - November 10, 1596) was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and like his brother was a prominent puritan leader in the Parliament of England, which he first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He was perhaps the chief interragtor of Queen Elizabeth I. He took a firm attitude in support of the liberties of parliament against encroachments of the royal prerogative, on which subject he delivered a memorable speech on February 8, 1576, … - Simon Cooper
Major-General Sir Simon Cooper GCVO, Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District 1989 - 1991, and later Master of the Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1992 - 2000. Cooper was born in 1936, son of Major-General Kenneth Cooper, CB DSO OBE. He was educated at Winchester School, and at the Royal Military College Sandhurst. He was an officer of the Life Guards 1956 to 1984. - Robert Guy
Captain Robert Lincoln Guy, LVO Royal Navy, is a Royal Navy officer. He was born in 1947, and educated at Radley College, and the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, and entered the Royal Navy in 1966. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1971, and was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bermuda in 1973. In 1974 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the minesweeper HMS "Ashton", and in the following year of HMS "Kirkliston". - Robert Calder
Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Bt. KCB (13 July 1745 - 1 September 1818) was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Elgin, Scotland, the third son of Sir James Calder and Alice Hughes. His father was the 3rd Baronet Calder of Muirton, who had been appointed Gentleman Usher of the Privy chamber to the queen by Lord Bute in 1761. - Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Desmond Shawe-Taylor CVO was appointed Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in 2005. He succeeded Christopher Lloyd, CVO, on Mr Lloyd's retirement in July. He had been director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery since 1996. He has overseen the major refurbishment of the Gallery, which was inaugurated by The Queen in 2000. Shawe-Taylor was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in English. - Thomas Woodcock
Thomas Woodcock, LVO, BA (Dunelm), LLB (Cantab), FSA, DL (b. 1951) is Her Majesty's Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. He was educated at Eton College. He went on to University College, Durham and Darwin College, Cambridge. Woodcock was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. He began his heraldic career in 1975 as a research assistant to Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms. In 1978 he was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant, and in 1982 promoted to Somerset Herald. - Christopher Geidt
Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt, CVO, OBE, has been Deputy Private Secretary to The Queen since 2005. It has been announced that he will succeed Sir Robin Janvrin as Private Secretary in September 2007. Geidt joined the Royal Household in 2002 after serving with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the United Nations in Sarajevo, Geneva, and Brussels. - Hugh Lindsay
Major Hugh Lindsay, LVO (1954 - 1988), was Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen 1983-1986. He was educated at the University of Exeter. He served in the 9th/12th Royal Lancers. He married 1987 33-year old Miss Sarah Brennan, MVO. Major Lindsay was killed in 1988 in a ski accident while accompanying His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in Switzerland He was made an LVO in 1986. - Henry Wallop
Sir Henry Wallop (c. 1540 - 14 April 1599) was an English statesman. He was the eldest son of Sir Oliver Wallop (d. 1566) of Farleigh Wallop in Hampshire. Having inherited the estates of his father and of his uncle, Sir John Wallop, he was knighted in 1569 and was chosen member of parliament for Southampton in 1572. His connection with Ireland, began in 1579, when he was appointed vice-treasurer of that country; this position was a very thankless and difficult one, … - Heber Ackland
Commander Heber Kemble Ackland, Royal Navy, was Equerry to The Queen from 2004. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he graduated MA. He joined the Royal Navy in the Supply branch, on a full term commission. He qualified as a staff officer and was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander 1 November 1999 and to Commander in 2006. - George Broke
Colonel Robin Broke, LVO Royal Artillery, was Equerry to The Queen 1974-1977, and also responsible to the Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. Broke was born in 1946, son of Major-General R S Broke, and was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst. He served in the Royal Artillery 1965-1996 He went to the Staff College, Camberley and qualified as a Staff Officer (psc). He was also a qualified helicopter pilot (ph). He was promoted to Captain 31 March 1973, …
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