Major Alastair Alexander Linton Watson LVO (born February 1953) was Private Secretary to HRH The Duke of York from July 2003 to July 2012. He was born in Wuppertal, West Germany, educated at Eagle House, Wellington College and at New College, Oxford, before he joined the Black Watch (the family regiment in which his father (Major General AL Watson CB, who was Colonel of the Black Watch and Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea) and brother (Patrick Watson: MD of Montrose Public Affairs) have served, in 1976.