Lord Charles O’Hagan, godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 79 after suffering a head injury.
He died at the North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple on March 23 following a subdural hematoma, an inquest opening in Exeter was told.
The Conservative peer, whose full name was Charles Towneley Strachey O’Hagan, lived at Beaford near Winkleigh in Devon.
Lord O’Hagan served as a Member of the European Parliament for Devon during two periods, from 1973 to 1975 and again from 1979 to 1994.
Lord Charles O’Hagan, godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 79 after suffering a head injury.Getty
He also held a ceremonial position as a Page of Honour to the late Queen Elizabeth II between 1959 and 1962.
Born in 1945, he was the 4th Baron O’Hagan, a title he inherited at the age of 16 following his grandfather’s death.
Lord O’Hagan was the grandson of politician Maurice Towneley-O’Hagan, 3rd Baron O’Hagan.
The title did not pass to his father, Major Thomas Strachey, who died in 1955.