Sir Walter Robert "Bertie" Alexander Ross, KCVO, FRICS (born 1950) is a Scottish surveyor and courtier.
[5] The following year, he left Savills and was appointed Secretary and Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Cornwall.
[1] In 2011, The Guardian described the Duchy as "a target-oriented investment portfolio, headed by the prince with a £200,000-a-year chief executive, Bertie Ross, who oversees the equivalent of 91 full-time staff.
"[6] In 2005, Ross was pressed by MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, who argued that the Duchy's accounts should be publicly available; he rebuffed these calls, stating that "The Duchy of Cornwall income is private to the Prince of Wales.
Other MPs on the committee argued that the £11.9 million the prince was then earning annually through the duchy was "excessive"; after Ross stated that the Prince used this to fund his staff and duties, Gerry Steinberg said that "This looks very much like jiggery-pokery", a statement which made headlines.