Major General Sir Simon Christie Cooper, GCVO (born 1936) is a retired British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District and later Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
[2] He served in Aden, then in London, and in the British Army of the Rhine from 1957 to 1963, when he became adjutant of the Household Cavalry Regiment.
From 1969 to 1975 he was in the British Army of the Rhine, and was commanding officer of the Life Guards from 1974 to 1976.
[5] He was made Honorary Colonel of the Royal Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) in 1987.
[6] Cooper was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1991[7] on completion of his term commanding the Household Division, and was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on his retirement as Master of the Household in 2000.