Captain Sir Alastair Sturgis Aird GCVO (14 January 1931 – 30 September 2009[1]) was a British royal courtier.
(1899–1965), of the 9th Lancers, who, as son of Malcolm Rucker Aird, was a grandson of Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet, and his wife Joan Meredith, née Sturgis.
[2][3] He was educated at Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire,[4] Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before joining The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers in 1951.
On 22 July 1963, he married Fiona Violet (née Myddelton) LVO, who was an Extra Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret from 1960 to 2002.
The elder, Caroline, is a god-child of Princess Margaret.