Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton
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Major A James (Jamie) M Lowther-Pinkerton, MVO MBE Irish Guards (retired), is part-time Private Secretary to Their Royal Highnesses Princes William and Harry of Wales, in the Office of the Prince of Wales. He was appointed 2 May 2005.
Lowther-Pinkerton was born 1961, and is married with three children in Suffolk.
He trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1979, and joined the Irish Guards. He retired from the British Army in 1998.
Lowther-Pinkerton served with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards, but was attached to the Special Air Service (SAS) throughout his 20 year army career.[1]
He served as Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen Mother 1984-1986, and was promoted to Captain 8 June 1986. He was a troop commander of the SAS as a Captain. He served in the first Gulf War in 1990-1991 as Special Forces Liaison Officer with United States forces.[2], [3]
He was promoted to Major 30 September 1992, and was in charge of two 20-man SAS counter-narcotics operations in Colombia for two years in the early 1990s. He attended the Staff College, Camberley, and qualified as a staff officer (psc). Lowther-Pinkerton was Commanding Officer of G Squadron SAS. In the mid-to-late 1990s he was in the Balkans for the strategic policy review by the Ministry of Defence; reportedly in 1994 as part of a four-man SAS "Joint Communication Organisation" in Bosnia.[4], [5]
In 2001 he co-founded and has since been a director of Objective Travel Safety, which provides risk assessment training for young travellers and journalists. He also trained Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman for their Long Way Round TV series.
He is a part-time consultant to Kroll Risk Management, London. [6], [7]
Lowther-Pinkerton was appointed MVO for his service as Equerry to Queen Elizabeth 1986, and appointed a military MBE 1990.[8]
