Baker — Lately HM Ambassador, Baghdad, Iraq. For services to British foreign policy and UK/Iraq relations. Alison Mary Blake — High Commissioner, Dhaka, Bangladesh. For services to British foreign and security policy. Terry Callaghan — Professor of Arctic ecology and director, University of Sheffield. For services to advancing knowledge and international collaboration in Arctic science. Diana June Nelson — Head of Health and Welfare International, Human Resources Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to the welfare of staff and families working for the British government overseas. Quentin James Kitson Phillips — Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to British foreign policy. Dr. William George Stirling — lately Director General, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and lately Director Institut Laue–Langevin, Grenoble, France. For services to British science and international science collaboration. The Royal Victorian Order Knight / Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO / DCVO) Denis Fitzgerald Desmond , Lord-Lieutenant of County Londonderry. Marcus James O'Lone , Land agent, Sandringham Estate. Mary, Lady Carew Pole , Lady in waiting to the Princess Royal. Kathrin Elizabeth Thomas , Lord-Lieutenant of Mid-Glamorgan. Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. Joan Christie, , Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim. Guy Wyndham Nial Hamilton Clark, Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey, , Formerly Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. Charlotte Elizabeth Manley, , Chapter clerk, College of St George. Nuala Patricia McGourty, , Retail director, Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd. Theresa-Mary Morton, , Head of exhibitions, Royal Collection Trust. Dame Janet Olive Trotter, , Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Stephen Gregory Wallace, formerly Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada and Herald Chancellor. Galen Willard Gordon Weston, . For services to the Prince's Charities, Canada. Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) Anthony Richard Bird — Chief Pilot, the Queen's Helicopter Flight Alexander Christopher De Montfort — Assistant comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office Brian Edward Ford — The Duke of York's Household Amanda Jane Foster — Senior communications officer, Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall Nicholas John Henderson — Trainer of the Queen's Racehorses Commodore Laurence Charles Hopkins — formerly Gentleman Usher to the Queen John Lynes — Private secretary's office, Royal Household Justin Rupert John Hainault Mundy — Senior Director, the Prince of Wales's International Sustainability Unit Neil Alexander Wilson — Head of IT operations, Royal Household Member of the Royal Victorian Order