Rear-Admiral Sir Basil Vernon Brooke, GCVO (1876–1945) was an Anglo-Irish courtier and Royal Navy officer.
He served in China and North America before being posted to the Royal Yacht HMY Osbourne in 1903, where he remained for six years.
[1] In 1923, Brooke was appointed Comptroller and Equerry to Prince Albert, by then the Duke of York, and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1933.
Brooke was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1943.
[1] The Daily Telegraph called him a "an old friend and devoted servant" to the King and Queen, and described him as a "tall and good-looking Irishman, with the added charm of the Navy ... with wide interests and possessed [of] a delightful personality".