Juliet Campbell read Modern Languages, and matriculated from Lady Margaret Hall in 1954. She became an honorary fellow in 1992. She joined the Foreign Office straight from university, only a few years after the Diplomatic Service was opened to women, and when it was still subject to a marriage bar.

In 1961 she became a junior member of Edward Heath's Common Market negotiating team. Despite the negative outcome of that early initiative, the European Community remained her speciality.

She also held positions in Bangkok, The Hague, Paris and Jakata, and it was during this last postinig that she married Alec Campbell, an historian, in 1983.

The climax of her diplomatic career was the posting to Luxembourg as British Ambassador from 1988 to 1991. No doubt she will tell us something of that time in her talk today.

She took up the position of Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge in 1992 and was Vice President of Cambridge University from 1993.

Juliet is a member of OWLC and spoke at our 2015 AGM on the subject "on being an Excellency".