Lieutenant-Colonel George Arthur Alston-Roberts-West, CVO, DL, who died 16 July, 2023, aged 85, was a scion of that landed gentry family, and a former senior member of the Royal Household.
George West, as he was often known, served as a member of the Royal Household as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1987 to 1990.
Alston-Roberts-West trained at the RMA, Sandhurst, and was then commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in December 1957. He saw service in England, Northern Ireland, Germany and Cyprus. He retired from the army in 1980. On 10 February 1981, Alston-Roberts-West was appointed Assistant Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office.He served as an Extra Equerry to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, from 1982. In December 1987, he was appointed as Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, in succession to Sir John Johnston. He was succeeded by Malcolm Ross on 1 January 1991.
In November 1988, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire. He was appointed CVO in 1988.
He was born 23 November, 1937, the second son of Major William Reginald James Alston-Roberts-West (1900-1940), of Alscot Park, Stratford-upon-Avon, of the Genadier Guards, who was killed in action 21 May, 1940, and his wife the former Constance Isolde Grosvenor (1900-1987).
He married 20 May, 1970, Hazel Elizabeth Margaret Cook, sometime Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales, daughter of Sir Thomas Russell Albert Cook (1902-1970), sometime head of that landed gentry family, of Sennowe Park, Guist, Norfolk, & Conservative MP for North Norfolk, 1931-45, and his wife the former Gweneth Margaret Evan-Jones (1908-1999).
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