The Lady Dannatt MBE is His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk. She devotes her time and energy to representing the King in the county where she was born and raised.

Lady Dannatt’s principal aim is to serve the county’s residents through the time and energy she gives to voluntary and benevolent organisations, and by the interest she takes in the business and social life of Norfolk. She has been a lay canon at Norwich Cathedral and vice president of the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA). She is also patron of the charity Thornage Hall Independent Living, which supports adults with learning difficulties in Norfolk.

She studied at the University of Durham, where she met her husband, former head of the British Army and now life peer Baron Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL. Lady Dannatt travelled with him for his postings, moving at her estimate 24 times in 34 years. At one point she was working in a West Berlin kindergarten that backed onto the Berlin Wall.

Lady Dannatt became High Sheriff of Norfolk in 2014, aiming to use her role as a way of encouraging greater understanding of mental health issues and fitness. Then Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed Lady Dannatt as the county’s Lord-Lieutenant in August 2019.

She became President of East Anglia RFCA in June 2025, succeeding her counterpart as Lord-Lieutenant in Hertfordshire, Robert Voss CBE CStJ Hon.LLD.

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