Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward William Spencer Ford, GCVO, KCB, ERD, DL (24 July 1910 - 19 November 2006) was a courtier in the Royal Household of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel in British English from the French grades spelling) is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine corps and air forces of the world, typically ranking above a Major and below a Colonel. ... Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... The acronym ERD may refer to the following: Entity-relationship model or Entity-relationship diagram, a data model or diagram for high-level descriptions of conceptual data models Emergency Repair Disk used for the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating system Elastic Recoil Detection an analytical technique Emergency Reserve Decoration... The Deputy Lieutenant is the deputy to the Lord Lieutenant of a county. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A courtier is a person who attends upon, and thus receives a privileged position from, a powerful person, usually a head of state. ... In all the medieval monarchies of western Europe the general system of government sprang from, and centred in, the royal household. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) became the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Emperor of India, upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. He reigned from 11 December 1936 until his death. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...

He was the son of a Headmaster of Repton and Harrow, who was later Dean of York.

Educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford (to which he was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1982), Edward Ford was tutor to King Farouk of Egypt from 1936–37. He was called to the Bar in 1937, and briefly practised law until 1939. Ford saw war service in the Grenadier Guards in World War II from 1939–1945, serving in Europe and North Africa, and was mentioned in despatches. The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is an internationally renowned Public School (privately-funded and independent) for male students, founded in 1440 by Henry VI. It is located in Eton, Berkshire (traditionally part of Buckinghamshire), near Windsor in England... College name New College Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister College Kings College Warden Prof. ... A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. ... King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 - March 18, 1965) was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father Fuad I in 1936. ... The Grenadier Guards is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

After the war, he entered Royal Service as Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI, 1946–52, and then served in the same office to Elizabeth II until 1967. Ford was telephoned by the King's Private Secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, with new of the Sovereign's death, and broke the news to Queen Mary (the King's mother) and Sir Winston Churchill (then Prime Minister). He was Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit (for which he received an honorium of £100) from 1975–2003 and was an Extra Equerry to the Queen from 1955 until his death. The Private Secretary to the Sovereign is the senior operational member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, as distinct from the Great Officers of the Household. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ... George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor) (14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) became the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Emperor of India, upon the unexpected abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. He reigned from 11 December 1936 until his death. ... Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; later Queen Mary; 26 May 1867 - 24 March 1953) was the Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom. ... This article is becoming very long. ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ... The Master of the Horse was (and in some cases, is) a historical position of varying importance in several European nations. ...

Ford used the Latin phrase 'annus horribilis' in a sympathetic letter to the Queen in 1992, after a series of unfortunate events, including a major fire in Windsor Castle. In a later television documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession, Ford chided himself for a grammatical error, saying that, in order to describe a horrible year, he properly should have written 'annus horrendus'. The Queen later used the phrase in a speech: "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an "Annus Horribilis". Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase meaning horrible year. It is a pun on annus mirabilis meaning year of wonders. // The Year of Wonders (1666) According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known written usage of the latin phrase Annus Mirabilis is as the title of a poem composed... Windsor Castle: The Round Tower or keep dominating the castle, as seen from the River Thames. ... Accession (from Lat. ...

For his service to the Crown, Edward Ford was appointed MVO in 1949, Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1952, knighted as KCVO in 1957, advanced to KCB in 1967 and promoted to the highest level in the Royal Victorian Order, Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) in 1998. He received the Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) in 1987, having long served as a reserve officer, and reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... The Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) is a British military decoration, instituted in 1952. ...

His wife Virginia passed away in 1995 and was the daughter of Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand and a niece of Nancy Astor. Robert Henry Brand, 1st Baron Brand (October 30, 1878 – August 23, 1963) was a British civil servant, businessman, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. ... Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (May 19, 1879 - May 2, 1964) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent Astor family. ...