Family
On 28 April 1990, Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener, (born 1963; a Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Michael of Kent), the great-grandniece of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener. Fellowes has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction that the proposals to change the rules of royal succession were not extended to peerages, which would have allowed his wife to succeed as 4th Countess Kitchener; instead, the title became extinct on her uncle's death due to the lack of male heirs. On 9 May 2012 the Queen issued a Royal Warrant of Precedence allowing Lady Fellowes to enjoy the same rank and title of the daughter of an Earl, as if her late father had survived his brother and therefore succeeded to the title.
They have one son, the Hon. Peregrine Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes (born 1991). The family resides in Dorset and on 15 October 1998 they changed their surname from Fellowes to Kitchener-Fellowes.
Fellowes was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Dorset in 2009. He is also Lord of the Manor of Tattershall in Lincolnshire and president of the Society of Dorset Men. Lady Fellowes serves as her husband's story editor for Downton Abbey and works with charities.
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