The current Clerk is James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle.

The Clerk of the Closet is responsible for advising the Private Secretary to the Sovereign on the names for candidates to fill vacancies in the Roll of Chaplains to the Sovereign.

DO check your workplace policies on interoffice dating.

Learn from what happened to Michael and Jan on “The Office.” Although it’s a TV show, many companies have very real policies that prohibit dating between managers and subordinates, and some prohibit dating across the board.

Just think, you can browse profiles while commuting on the train or last thing at night between brushing your teeth and slipping beneath the duvet. How would you like your ex telling you what to do on a daily basis? Not to mention that committing such details to email, which can be easily shared, is pretty silly. The moment anyone else at your office gets wind, even it is the smallest suspicion, of your dating a co-worker…Well, remember the expression ’round the office watercooler?

Check out our list of the top five things about dating someone else in your office that could turn your date from fun to fired in so many flirtatious emails… ’ It’s not fun to be the centre of focus for pointed looks and elbow nudges.

It can be hard if you are a working professional – where do you get the time to meet new people if you are concentrating on finishing that project for Friday’s meeting?

The answer is, you guessed it, a professional dating site. No matter how much you find your boss attractive, or how much you think they might be flirting with you when they tell you to have that report on their desk by 5pm…let me repeat. In 1% of cases, this might work out into a long term relationship with a fun anecdote about how you met, but the majority of cases end up awkward, difficult and unbearable. It is also perfectly acceptable for a company that pays you money – based on the idea that you spend your time working for them – monitors your outgoing mail, to check that you are in fact working and not describing tonight’s big date plans in intimate detail to your colleague across the room.

Overall, much better to search for a date somewhere else.

He presents bishops for homage to the Sovereign, examines any theological books to be presented to the Sovereign, and preaches annually in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The Deputy Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1677, is the Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign, and Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal, and is the sole full-time clerical member of the Household.

Other members of the royal family may also have their own Clerk of the Closet.

The College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is under the Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1437.

It is normally held by a diocesan bishop, who may however remain in office after leaving his see.