Man behind Kate & Will’s upcoming rock star royal visit? Senate’s Usher of the Black Rod

Appointed Canadian Secretary to the Queen in 2009, low-profile Kevin MacLeod is the lead organizer behind the royal visit.

The royal couple's nine-day, seven-city tour of Canada "will be the highest-profile, most-televised, most watched, most written-about, royal visit that Canada has perhaps ever had," says Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who expects a record number of Canadians to come out to public events ...

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