Educated at St Philip's School,
Ampleforth College and
Balliol College, Oxford, Roberts was
commissioned into the
Irish Guards in 1977. Roberts went on serve as
commanding officer of the 1st Battalion of the
Irish Guards in
London and
Northern Ireland. Roberts also served as
Colonel of the Irish Guards from 2008 to 2011, being succeeded by
Prince William on 10 February 2011. Roberts was the author of
Soldiering: The Military Covenant (1998). ==Personal life and death==