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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 728

The very rare Saudi Order of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz 1st Class awarded to Lord Moore of Wolvercote

Saudi Arabia, Kingdom, Order of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, 1st Class set of Insignia, comprising sash Badge, 100mm including suspension x 64mm, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, silver mark to loop; Star, 85mm, silver-gilt and enamel, silver mark to retaining pin, nearly extremely fine, with full sash riband, riband bar, boutonierre and in its fitted case of issue with issue card with name in arabic and additionaly written 'Sir Philip Moore' (2)

The Order of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz was instituted in 1976 by King Fahad bin Abdulaziz, founder of the modern Saudi state. It is awarded to those who render important or exceptional service to the Saudi State and is awarded in four Classes.

Philip Brian Cecil Moore, later Baron Moore of Wolvercote, GCB, GCVO, CMG, QSO, PC, was born on 6 April 1921 and was Private Secretary to HM The Queen from 1977-86.

Educated at the Dragon School, Cheltenham College, then Brasenose College, Oxford, he served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He played one match for the England international rugby union team, against Wales in the 1951 Five Nations Championship, besides being a keen cricketer who played for Oxfordshire. Moore was Private Secretary, from 1957-58, to the 10th Earl of Selkirk in the latter's capacity as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was Deputy British High Commissioner (and acting HC) in Singapore, 1963–65, and back in the UK, Chief of Public Relations of the Ministry of Defence 1965–66. He was then Assistant Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 1966-72, then as Deputy until 1977 and as Private Secretary to the Sovereign until 1986. On his retirement in 1986, he was created Baron Moore of Wolvercote, of Wolvercote in the City of Oxford and he lived in a grace-and-favour apartment in Hampton Court Palace. He received the honour of being made a Permanent Lord in Waiting and died on 7 April 2009.

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