Early Life and Education
Colville served alongside Harry Legge-Bourke as a Page of Honour between 1927 and 1931, thanks to his mother's connections as attendant to the queen. She also ensured he saw the other side of life, by taking him to the infant welfare centre she ran in Shoreditch. He was educated at West Downs School, Winchester, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In preparation for a career in the diplomatic service, he twice spent a few months in the Black Forest to improve his German. The first time in the village of Marxzell was just before university in 1933, and the second was just after in 1937. He thus saw the very beginning of Hitler's Chancellorship, and its effects once it had bedded in: "There was increasing Strength matched by diminishing Joy".
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