Richard Aylard

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Richard Aylard
Born (1952-04-10) 10 April 1952 (age 72)
Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales
(1991–96)

Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales.[3]

Education

Richard Aylard was born on 10 April 1952 in

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Barnet. His mother, Joyce Aylard, had been a Wren and codebreaker during World War II. His father, John Aylard, was an officer in the RNVR, serving on the PQ convoys to Russia. Richard studied at the University of Reading, graduating with a BSc(Hons) in Applied Zoology with Mathematics, and at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
.

Royal Navy

Aylard joined the Supply and Secretariat Branch of the

.

He was

Diana Princess of Wales, an office he held until 1988. He became a commander[4]
on 30 June 1987 and from 31 May to 30 September 1988, was temporary Assistant Private Secretary to the Princess.

Royal household

Aylard left the Royal Navy in July 1989, and from May 1989 to 1991, was Assistant Private Secretary and

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
in 1994.

Subsequent career

From 1996 to 2002, Aylard was a consultant on environmental issues and public affairs at

Burson-Marsteller.[4] In 2002, he joined Thames Water as Corporate Responsibility Director, became their External Affairs and Sustainability Director[4] is now a Director and Special Advisor to the Chief Executive.[6]

Aylard is a Senior Associate of the

WWF-UK and an Associate of Forum for the Future.[4]

In popular culture

Aylard is portrayed by

season 5 of the Netflix TV series The Crown
.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Thames Water fined £2M over raw sewage pollution - WWT". wwtonline.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Richard Aylard". Business in the Community. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Prince Charles and aide agree to part ha". The Independent. 5 October 1996. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e "The Executive – Richard Aylard". Thames Water. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Prince's private secretary to quit post over alleged differences of opinion". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  6. ^ "Speakers". European Leadership Forum. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
Court offices
Preceded by
Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales

1991–1996
Succeeded by