Sir Timothy Mark Hitchens, KCVO, CMG (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen Elizabeth II in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999–2002. Hitchens was seconded from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to which he returned to become Head of the Africa Department (Equatorial). He had been First Secretary Political and Information, British High Commission, Islamabad and speechwriter for Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.