[1] Roger Vickers is the son of Henry Renwick Vickers[2] (1911–1993), a noted dermatologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1950 and served as president of the British Association of Dermatology in 1966.
[3] He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then trained at St Thomas's Hospital, earning his medical degree in 1970.
[2] In 1992, he joined King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and the Medical Household as the Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Queen and in 2006 he was appointed Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.
[4] In 2003, he also performed an operation on Elizabeth II to remove cartilage from her knee and benign skin lesions.
[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1975.