Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, GCVO, CB, CBE, MC, DL (22 October 1916 – 2 November 2007), styled The Honourable Michael Fitzalan-Howard until 1975, was a senior officer in the British Army and a member of the Howard family.

[1] He served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the British Royal Household from 1972–81, and Gold Stick-in-Waiting and Colonel of The Life Guards from 1979 until his retirement in 1999.

[2] He had two other brothers and four sisters, all with first names beginning with the letter M: Martin, Mark, Mariegold, Miriam, Miranda, and Mirabel.

[2] Michael's MC was awarded for leading several attacks in the bocage near Estry and Chênedollé.

He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1953 after working on the funeral of King George VI.

He served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire from 1974, and was also chairman of the Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve Council.

[2] In 1975, Fitzalan-Howard's elder brother, Miles succeeded as the 17th Duke of Norfolk, and Michael became Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard when he and his siblings were granted the rank of younger sons and daughters of a duke that year.

[2] He succeeded The Earl Mountbatten of Burma as Gold Stick-in-Waiting and Colonel of The Life Guards in 1979, offices which he held for 20 years.

[2] In his will, he bequeathed £15,000 to the Life Guards Association and £10,000 each to King Edward VII's Hospital and to the Catholic Church at Tisbury and Wardour.