Lord Charles O’Hagan, godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 79 after suffering a head injury.

The Conservative peer served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Devon twice, from 1973 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1994.

Charles – full name Charles Towneley Strachey O’Hagan – also had a ceremonial role as a Page of Honour to the late Queen between 1959 and 1962.

She became his godmother when still Princess Elizabeth and he was photographed carrying her train for the Order of the Garter ceremony in Windsor in 1960.