Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Eton College; Trinity College.
He went on to do national service in the Rifle Brigade. He built a career in journalism and publishing. In 1957 he bought the British high society publication The Queen, which he revamped, renaming it Queen and hiring Beatrix Miller as editors
In the 1960s he provided financial backing for the first British pirate radio station Radio Caroline.
In the 1960s–1970s he was named as managing director of the Evening Standard and Daily Express newspapers. A British newspaper obituary observed that, in the course of his newspaper career, Stevens "revelled in his image as a posh bully, living up, or down, to Private Eye"s nickname for him: "Piranha teeth."
Stevens was Chairman of English Heritage from 1992–2000.
In 1992 he was awarded a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for his part in curating the Sovereign Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and he was knighted in 1996. Stevens was born in Marylebone, Central London, England.
He was the son of Major Charles Greville Bartlett Stewart-Stevens and Betty Stevens (née Hulton), who died shortly after his birth.
His step-brother was the military officer Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, Equerry to Her Majesty The Queen and Deputy Master of the Household in the Royal Household from 1976 to 1994. Their daughter Pandora married property developer Charles Delevingne and they have three daughters, Chloe, and models Poppy Delevingne and Cara Delevingne.