Sir Anthony Richards KCVO
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CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
20 December 2023
ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in the Royal Victorian Order:
K.C.V.O.
To be a Knight Commander:
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Charles RICHARDS, C.V.O., lately Deputy Master of the Household and Equerry to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
(To be dated 28 November 2023)
He was b 1953, the son of Dudley Raymond RICHARDS (1924-2010) and (m 1950) Eleanor Caroline (1926-2016) d of Robert Charles OTTER (1853-1939) and (m as his 2nd w 1917) Mary Eleanora (1890-1936) dau of Maj Hon Richard Walter CHETWYND (1859-1908), s of the 7th Viscount Chetwynd, and (m 1889) Florence Mary NAYLOR-LEYLAND (1863-1955) sister of the 1st Naylor-Leyland Baronet. He m 1978 Serena Anne b 1952 d of Richard Peter Michael SPENCER and (her 2nd m, her 1st being to the 9th Earl of Lanesborough) Bettyne Ione d of Sir William Lindsay EVERARD and Cornelia Ione Kathleen d of Capt Marcus Beresford ARMSTRONG (d 1923) (gs of 1st Baron Decies and Archbishop of Tuam, ggs of 1st Earl of Tyrone and 1st Baroness la Poer) and (m 1888) Rosalie Cornelia MAUDE (d 1956) (ggd of 1st Viscount Hawarden)