Mrs. Genevieve Holmes, MVO

Genevieve was born in London in 1962 and lived her early life in Berkshire. Her parents Gerald & Janet Benney were instrumental in launching the charity polo which the INSPIRE Foundation has been running for nearly twenty years. Genevieve’s first serious job in 1982 when she became the ‘Fan Mail Secretary’ to the Prince of Wales. She was later promoted to Personal Secretary to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales a position she held until 1994 and for which she was made a Member of the Victorian Order. At the same time she married and has since had three children. She subsequently started a fledgling artistic career and in 1999 also became Secretary to the Action Medical Research Charity in the South East area. She agreed to become a Patron of the INSPIRE Foundation in July 2014.