Letter - Queen's Permission for the Prime Minister to be Absent From the UK [1995-03-22]

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Title

Letter - Queen's Permission for the Prime Minister to be Absent From the UK [1995-03-22]

Subject

Prime Minister
Procedure

Description

Letter from Roderic Lyne to Sir Robert Fellowes seeking the Queen's permission for John Major to be absent from the United Kingdom for the purposes of visiting the United States.

Creator

Roderic Lyne (Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)

Source

PREM 19/5385

Date

1995-03-22

Contributor

Jason Loch

Letter Item Type Metadata

Transcript

10 DOWNING STREET
London SW1A 2AA

From the Private Secretary

22 March 1995


The Prime Minister will visit Washington from 2 to 5 April 1995.

I should be grateful if you would seek The Queen's permission for him to be absent from the country on those dates.


RODERIC LYNE

Sir Robert Fellowes KCB KCVO

Signatures

Roderic Lyne (Private Secretary to the Prime Minister)

Recipient(s)

Sir Robert Fellowes (Private Secretary to the Queen)

Ornamentation

Printed in Times New Roman.

Black and white Lesser Royal Arms with St. Edward's Crown at top.

Special Features

Salutation and valediction are missing, presumably because Lyne would have added them by hand later.

Files

Citation

Roderic Lyne (Private Secretary to the Prime Minister), “Letter - Queen's Permission for the Prime Minister to be Absent From the UK [1995-03-22],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/284.

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