Queen Elizabeth's godson Lord Charles O'Hagan dies after suffering head injury

A godson of the late Queen and a Conservative peer who served as an MEP has died after suffering a head injury.

Lord Charles O'Hagan, who was also a page of honour for the former monarch, died at the at North Devon Hospital last month aged 79 after suffering from a subdural haematoma, an inquest has been told.

Lord O'Hagan, whose full name was Charles Towneley Strachey O'Hagan, was the 4th Baron O'Hagan and lived in Devon. The late Queen, who died aged 96 in 2022, become his godmother before she ascended to the throne and was still known as Princess Elizabeth.

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As a youngster, he served as a page of honour from 1955 to 1961, helping the late Queen with her formal robes on state ocassions and at events such as the Garter Day parade. He took his seat in the House of Lords in the 1960s and but lost it in 1999 along with many other hereditary peers.

He became an Member of the European Parliament in December 1972 but lost it three years later. However, he later returned as an MEP for Devon in 1979 until his resignation in 1994 following the collapse of his second marriage. He was married three times and has two daughters.

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