Stephen Lamport

Sir Stephen Mark Jeffrey Lamport, KCVO, DL was Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales 1996-2002. He is Group Director for Public Policy and Government Affairs at the Royal Bank of Scotland and a former diplomat.

Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales in October 1996, having joined HRH's Household as Deputy Private Secretary in March 1993. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1974 and served at UKMIS New York in 1974; Third Secretary FCO 1975; Third, later Second Secretary Tehran 1975 - 79; First Secretary FCO 1980; Private Secretary to two successive Ministers of State in the FCO in 1981 - 84; First Secretary in Rome 1984; First Secretary, later Counsellor FCO 1988-93. Sir Stephen is married with three children.

He was born in 1951 and educated at Dorking Grammar School, and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, where he was a Scholar and graduated with a BA (First Class Honours), and subsequently admitted as Master of Arts. He also obtained an MA from the University of Sussex.

He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974, and was assigned to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York. In 1975 he was posted to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a 3rd Secretary From 1975 to 1979 he was in Tehran, initially as a 3rd Secretary and then as 2nd Secretary. From 1980 to 1984 he was a 1st Secretary in London with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving 1981-1984 as Private Secretary to two successive Ministers of State, Malcolm Rifkind and Douglas Hurd.

From 1984 to 1988 he was 1st Secretary in Rome. From 1988 to 1993 he was with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, initially as a 1st Secretary and then as a Counsellor.

He was Assistant Head of Department of the Middle East Department in about 1990. By 1991 he was Deputy Head of Department of Personnel Operations, as a Counsellor. By 1992 he was Deputy Head of Department of the Personnel Management Department.

He was Deputy Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales from March 1993, and then Private Secretary and Treasurer from October 1996 to 2002.

He is now Group Director for Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Royal Bank of Scotland, and also a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Ethics in Public Policy and Corporate Governance of Glasgow Caledonian University.

Sir Stephen was appointed a CVO in 1999, and was promoted to KCVO in 2002. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey in March 2006. He is married and has three children. He wrote a novel, The Palace of Enchantment, in 1985 with Douglas Hurd.

He was portrayed by Tim McMullan in the movie "The Queen" (2006), circulating around the events before and after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in France, 1997.

Affiliations

• Centre for Ethics in Public Policy & Corporate Governance