Timothy Earl
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
.
Commissioned into The Life Guards in 1964, he was promoted major in 1976, and was later Commanding Officer of The Life Guards. He was promoted to colonel in 1988 and attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1989.
He retired from the British Army in 1993 and became Secretary of the Government Hospitality Fund.
In 1999 he joined the
Office of the Princess Royal
.
The Household of The Princess Royal provides the administrative support to
Private Secretary
.
The Household is separate from the
Civil List annuity paid to The Princess Royal for her public duties - which is however reimbursed to HM Treasury
by Her Majesty The Queen.
Colonel Earl was made an OBE in 2000.[1]
References
- ^ "No. 55710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1999. p. 35.