RICHARD EDEN: Queen Elizabeth II's private secretary Lord Geidt faces inquiry ... trends now
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During his decade as Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth, Christopher Geidt put in what was widely agreed to have been a faultless performance, earning himself undying gratitude from the monarch — and a peerage in 2018.
But life beyond the palace appears to be proving more hazardous for Lord Geidt, 62.
Last year, he resigned as Independent Adviser on Ministers' Interests - colloquially known as the PM's ethics adviser - just 14 months after Boris Johnson appointed him, saying he felt he had been placed in 'an impossible and odious position' by one request from Downing Street.
Now, I can disclose, he is himself under the spotlight - after being named yesterday as the 'subject of an inquiry' by one of the House of Lords' Commissioners for Standards.
The Commissioners' office tells me it is unable to comment other than by repeating the brief statement explaining that the inquiry concerns 'alleged provision of
