Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane
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Lieutenant Colonel The Right Honourable The Lord Adeane GCB, GCVO, PC |
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Adeane in 1953
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| Private Secretary to the Sovereign | |
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In office 1953–1972 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Alan Lascelles |
| Succeeded by | Sir Martin Charteris |
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| Born | 30 September 1910 |
| Died | 30 April 1984 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Michael Edward Adeane, Baron Adeane, GCB, GCVO, PC (30 September 1910 – 30 April 1984) was Private Secretary to Elizabeth II during the first twenty years of her reign.
Adeane was a maternal grandson of Lord Stamfordham, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and George V. He was educated at Eton and graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1934 with a Master of Arts degree.
Adeane then travelled to Canada and was aide-de-camp to Lord Bessborough from 1934 to 1934 and then to his successor, Lord Tweedsmuir until 1936.
Adeane then returned to England and became George VI's Assistant Private Secretary from 1945 after five and a half years on active military duty, a post he held until the latter's death in 1952. He continued in that post for Queen Elizabeth until 1953 when he was promoted to Private Secretary and admitted to the Privy Council.
In 1961, during a Royal visit to Nepal, Adeane was credited with a share of a tiger kill with Sir Christopher Bonham-Carter in a royal tiger hunt. The tiger shooting role had fallen to him after the Queen had declined, the Duke of Edinburgh had been unable to shoot due to having his trigger finger in a splint and the then Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home had missed twice.
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