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A son of [[Lancelot Royle|Sir Lancelot Royle]], he was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] and [[RMA Sandhurst]]. He joined the [[Life Guards (British Army)|Life Guards]] and subsequently the [[Special Air Service|SAS]]. He contracted [[polio]] on his way to [[British Malaya|Malaya]] and was invalided back to UK and spent a year in an [[Negative pressure ventilator|iron lung]].
In the 1950s, Royle became President of the Western Area [[Young Conservatives (UK)|Young Conservatives]]. Living in London, he became an [[insurance broker]] and unsuccessfully contested [[St Pancras North (UK Parliament constituency)|St Pancras North]] in the [[1955 United Kingdom general election
At the [[1959 United Kingdom general election
He was a junior minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1970 to 1974. He was appointed a [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG) in 1974.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46254 |date=5 April 1974 |page=4396 |supp=y}}</ref> He was invited to become Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party by [[Margaret Thatcher]] to reform the way the party recruited candidates. He was also responsible for the party's International office. He was elevated to the [[House of Lords]] in 1983 as '''Baron Fanshawe of Richmond''', of [[South Cerney]] in the County of [[Gloucestershire]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49498 |date=4 October 1983 |page=12949}}</ref>
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency)|Richmond]]
| years = [[1959 United Kingdom general election
| before = Sir [[George Harvie-Watt]]
| after = ''Constituency abolished''
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