Richard Tilbrook

Richard James Tilbrook CVO (born 11 April 1962[citation needed]) is a British civil servant and Clerk of the Privy Council.

Tilbrook was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford and went on to read classics at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he gained a First and sang counter-tenor in the Chapel Choir.

[1][2] After university, Tilbrook joined GCHQ as a codebreaker before being seconded to the Cabinet Office to write intelligence-based assessments for the Joint Intelligence Committee.

The following text, which was published as a supplement to The London Gazette of 12 September, was read by Tilbrook as the clerk of the Accession Council:[4][5] Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth the Second of Blessed and Glorious memory, by whose Decease the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is solely and rightfully come to The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George: We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm and Members of the House of Commons, together with other members of Her late Majesty's Privy Council and representatives of the Realms and Territories, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, and others, do now hereby with one voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George is now, by the Death of our late Sovereign of Happy Memory, become our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord Charles the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to whom we do acknowledge all Faith and Obedience with humble Affection; beseeching God by whom Kings and Queens do reign to bless His Majesty with long and happy Years to reign over us.

Tilbrook is a communicant Anglican, worshipping at St Andrew's Church, Naunton, in the Diocese of Gloucester.