Meyer was born in 1944 to Reginald Henry Rome Meyer and his wife Eve.
Reginald was a flight lieutenant in Coastal Command of the RAF who was killed in action over the Greek island of Icaria 13 days before his son was born (in 2011 Meyer visited the island and met witnesses of the shooting-down and burial of his father).
 Meyer was educated at Lancing College, a boarding independent school for boys (now coeducational), near the village of Lancing in West Sussex, the Lycee Henri IV in Paris and Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in History (he has been an honorary fellow of Peterhouse since 2002).
After graduating, he attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at Bologna.
Meyer was born in 1944 to Reginald Henry Rome Meyer and his wife Eve. Reginald was a flight lieutenant in Coastal Command of the RAF who was killed in action over the Greek island of Icaria 13 days before his son was born (in 2011 Meyer visited the island and met witnesses of the shooting-down and burial of his father).  Meyer was educated at Lancing College, a boarding independent school for boys (now coeducational), near the village of Lancing in West Sussex, the Lycee Henri IV in Paris and Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in History (he has been an honorary fellow of Peterhouse since 2002). After graduating, he attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at Bologna.
Christopher Meyer