Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon KCVO (born 17 June 1932) is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and was Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1986 to 2007.
He was created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2005.
[1] He was born in 1932, the son of Sir David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), who also served as Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, and Rachel Pauline Spender-Clay (1907–1996), younger daughter of Herbert Spender-Clay.
On 11 April 1966, he married Caroline Mary Victoria Pike (b.
Victor Joseph Pike, and they have four children: Sir Simon Bowes-Lyon currently resides in St Paul's Walden Bury.