Major Charles Xtopher Sebastian Fenwick, LVO 1946-2025

Major Charles Fenwick, LVO, Grenadier Guards, Extra Equerry to HRH The late Duke of Edinburgh, and a fomer assistant private secretary to the prince, died 17 November, 2025. He was 79.

He was born 7 April, 1946, scion of the Fenwick landed gentry family, third son of David Fenwick (1910-1982), of Barham's Manor, Higham, Colchester, by his wife the former Gwladys Maïta Joan Powys-Keck (born 1911), descended from the Lilford Barons. He was educated at Ampleforth. 

Major Fenwick served as assistant private secretary to HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1975-77, and was appointed LVO in 1978. He was an Extra Equerry to Prince Philip from 1977.

He married in 1997, Mrs Sara Elizabeth Nickerson (born 1935), widow of David George François Nickerson (1933-1995), and daughter of Colonel John Howlett Jewson, DL, MC (1895-1975), of Mergate Hall, Norwich, and his wife the former Betty Fletcher. 

He leaves a widow and two step-sons, William and James Nickerson, and a step-daughter, Camilla.

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