#George lascelles

[collarsncrowns]

Grandchildren of TM King George V & Queen Mary:

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011)

The Hon Gerald Lascelles (1924-1998)

HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)

HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002)

HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935 -)

HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent (1936 -)

HRH Prince William of Gloucester (1941-1972)

HRH Prince Michael of Kent (1942 -)

HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944 -)

[missmarymaywindsor]

Extract from Queen Mary’s photo album showing Princess Mary with her infant son George Lascelles! And, of course, one with Grannie too!

[george-the-good]

When George Harewood was taken prisoner in the war, King George VI said to one of his friends in the same regiment: ‘Don’t worry. The Germans are such snobs that George will be well looked after.’

- Kenneth Rose journal entry, 21 August 1986. (Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose)

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George, the King’s nephew, joined the Grenadier Guards in 1942 at the age of 19. He was shot and wounded in Italy on 18th June 1944 and captured by the Nazis. He was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, aka Colditz Castle, alongside other Prominente – prisoners with illustrious Allied connections, that were earmarked as powerful bargaining chips.

In March 1945, Hitler signed George’s death warrant and SS commander Gottlob Berger was ordered to execute the Prominente. But realising the war was lost, Berger failed to carry out the sentence and released his prisoners to the Swiss.

- Harewood.org

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Look at Alix touching her baby great-grandson, George Lascelles's head😭❤

[daylight-upon-magic]

The Tatler - May 28, 1924

[grandmaster-anne]

28 February 1922 King George V and Queen Mary present their daughter on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The Princess is seen with her Grandmother Queen Alexandra and new husband Viscount Lascelles. © Universal History Archive

[postcard-from-the-past]

1922 wedding of Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, and Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood

British vintage postcard

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

I love that King George VI knighted Tommy Lascelles, gigglingly, on a train outside of Buffalo, NY.

I just look at Pip Torrens' dignified, elegant portrayal and imagine the whole thing. I'm having fits. 😂😝😂

[chilimissy]

HM Queen Mary HM King George Lord Lascelles HRH Princess Mary

[duchesssoflennox]

King George V was very fond of his only daughter, Princess Mary, who was born in 1897. He called her his "little ray of sunshine" and gave her the title of Princess Royal in 1932. He also supported her charitable work during the First World War and her marriage to Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, in 1922. Princess Mary was loyal and dutiful to her father and was deeply affected by his death in 1936. She remained close to her mother, Queen Mary, and her brother George VI until their deaths. 🤍🦋

Thanks for asking @bhoooo34 ❤️‍🩹

[collarsncrowns]

100 years ago today: King George V and Queen Mary became grandparents for the first time. Their daughter Princess Mary and her husband Viscount Henry Lascelles welcomed a son, The Hon. George Lascelles. George would succeed his father as Viscount Lascelles and again succeed him as the Earl of Harewood.

[george-the-good]

The King said to me rather bitterly this morning that Winston had come back from his Italian holiday looking a new man, and that while Ministers out of office always got such opportunities for recuperation, he never did. To that, I am afraid, the only possible answer is on the lines of il faut souffrir pour étre belle. It is a melancholy but inescapable fact that the Pope of Rome and the King of England are almost the only two human beings who can never expect a complete holiday until they reach the grave. Even the King’s private secretary can count on being allowed to go into honourable retirement some day.

- George VI’s Private Secretary, Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, diary entry, 26 October 1945 (King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War - The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles)

[palecolorinfluencer]

Orpheus and Leopard by the British sculptor Astrid Zydower (1930–2005)

Astrid Zydower was born in 1930 in a small village in what is now Poland, which at that time was within the borders of Germany. As a Jewish family Astrid and her 2 siblings were evacuated to Britain in 1939. Both their parents died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Astrid studied Sculpture and Drawing at the Sheffied School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. During the 1960s she taught at the Hornsey School of Art in North London.

This sculpture is located at Harewood House, a Palladian Stately Home in West Yorkshire, England, the seat of the Lascelles family. It was unveiled on 14th May 1985 by the English actress and friend of the then occupant George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011), a First Cousin of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

[darlinggeorgiedear]

Is it true that George forced his daughter to marry Henry Lascelles?

Nope! Princess Mary’s own account of the engagement disproves this myth. She was very excited to marry him, and when he proposed she rushed to her mother’s rooms and had her mother who was lounging in a kimono (a popular dressing gown style at the time) to IMMEDIATELY get up to go with her to ask Papa for his approval. Queen Mary would later add that she was concerned over what the staff would think of her walking around in a dressing gown, and George added that himself was a little shocked when his daughter and wife, wearing her kimono, randomly busted into his office.

[royal-confessions]

“Thirty year old men don't fall in love with fifteen year old girls. Peter Townsend began "romancing" Princess Margaret when she was a literal child then pounced on her when she was heartbroken and vulnerable after the death of her father. Can we please leave this "dashing war hero prince charming" rhetoric in 2022 this new year please! Tommy Lascelles was a good man for doing everything in his power to stop it and I am sure he was thinking both of his own daughters and of his good friend King George when he did it.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[world-of-wales]

Can you explain the Queen Mother and Princess of Wales with the two gentlemen post please?

Yah sure sweetie, the man in the first b&w pic is Tommy Lascelles (his actual name was alan).

He was a private secretary for George vi, then qeii. One of the first people to smell Edward viii's BS from miles away. He was a very big player at the palace and very instrumental when it came to tough decisions. He was also one of Queen mum's most trusted people. Her right hand man basically, she depended a lot on his advice. You can say she had a lot of her 'devious' work done by him bts. If she wanted something done then Tommy was the guy to make it happen.

And the second pic beneath him is of Jean Christophe Gray, will's private secretary who came up with the 'recollections may vary' line which Catalina pushed for to be added into the statement.

So the post is actually comparing the relationships between the two pairs and how JCG and Cat working together to get shit done in the monarchy is similar to Tommy and the Queen Mum scheming together to make sure there is a monarchy.