“It will be very sad for him if he can’t make it.”

Lord Fellowes was a British courtier who was Private Secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth from 1990 to 1999.

He was married to Lady Jane Spencer – Diana’s sister – and was a maternal first cousin of Ronald Ferguson, the father of the Duchess of York.

While his relationship with Diana was reportedly not the best, he shared a close bond with both of his nephews and attended their weddings in 2011 and 2018.

After he stepped down as Elizabeth’s Private Secretary in February 1999, he returned to private banking before being created a life peer in July of the same year.

He took the title of Baron Fellowes of Shotesham in the County of Norfolk in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and sat as a crossbench peer until his retirement in 2022.