They are bringing to the party different means of achieving the whole, he has the experience of knowing where the institution sits and seeing it evolve. The duchess brings this pragmatic awareness of what it’s like to be from a decent, down-to-earth family.

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton

Anthony James Moxon Lowther-Pinkerton, LVO, MBE, DL (born 28 September 1960) is the former Private Secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and to Prince Harry, in the Household of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. He was appointed on 2 May 2005 and resigned as full-time Private Secretary with effect from September 2013, remaining for a single day a week in order to mentor and advise the younger staff who shall have to succeed him.From 1979 to 1998 he was an officer in the British Army, serving with the Irish Guards and the Special Air Service (SAS), including in the first Gulf War, and in Colombia and the Balkans. He is godfather to Prince George of Cambridge.

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