 In 1944, he was made honorary surgeon to King George VI.Post-war, he was Public Medical Officer for the Allied High Commission (the Allied body that governed occupied Germany after the war).Roberta Cowell attended Whitgift School, a boys' public school in Croydon and was an enthusiastic member of the school's Motor Club, along with John Cunningham, who would later be famous as an RAF night fighter ace and test pilot.