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Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (9 September 1882 – 24 May 1947) was a British
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and peer. He was the husband of Mary, Princess Royal, and thus a son-in-law of
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and Queen Mary and a brother-in-law to Edward VIII and
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Early life and marriage

Lascelles was the son of
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, and Lady Florence Bridgeman, daughter of
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. He was born at the London home of his maternal grandfather, 43 Belgrave Square. Article by H.E. Wortham, revised by K.D. Reynolds. Lord Harewood married Princess Mary, only daughter of
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and Queen Mary, at
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, on 28 February 1922. His best man was
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. After their marriage, Lord and Lady Harewood split their time between their homes;
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in London, and
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, part of the Harewood Estate and
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itself, in
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, which became their family home in 1930, after the death of his father in October 1929. They had two children: * George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (born at
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7 February 1923 – died 11 July 2011) and christened at St Mary's Church Goldsborough 25 March 1923 *
Gerald David Lascelles Gerald David Lascelles (; 21 August 1924 – 27 February 1998) was the younger son of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood and Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a first cousin of Queen Eliza ...
(born at
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21 August 1924 – died 27 February 1998) Their elder son, the 7th Earl of Harewood, wrote about his parents' marriage in his memoirs ''The Tongs and the Bones'' and describes their relationship, saying that "they got on well together and had a lot of friends and interests in common". He also noted that "Shy, aloof and worse, I have heard my father called since; but that was not how his friends knew him rhow his family felt about him; and I knew then, and know still, that when I was 24 I lost potentially the best friend and mentor I could ever have – at precisely the moment I discovered this was so".


Military career

After education at
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, Lascelles attended the
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before being commissioned as a second lieutenant into the
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on 12 February 1902, serving until 1905. He was an honorary attache at the British embassy in
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from 1905 until 1907, then served as aide-de-camp to the
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, Earl Grey, until 1911. In 1913 he joined the Territorial Army as second lieutenant in the
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yeomanry. He was promoted
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on the Reserve of officers in 1914. He continued with the yeomanry after the outbreak of the
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until he rejoined the Grenadier Guards for service on the Western Front in April 1915. Even so, he continued to be promoted within the regiment to
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in 1917. Postwar he was promoted major in 1920 and retired in 1924. Entry under Viscount Lascelles (published before succession to earldom same year). Meanwhile, at the front, he was wounded in the head at the
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but recovered to fight in the
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in 1915, and was wounded a further two times as well as gassed. He was promoted captain and later major in command of a battalion (the 3rd) in 1915, and
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in 1918. He was awarded the
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(DSO) and a bar both in 1918, as well as the
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. He continued his interest in the Territorial movement after the war, as honorary colonel of the 1st Battalion The London Regiment from 1923, the 5th Battalion
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from 1937, and as president of the West Yorkshire Territorial Forces Association from 1928. He was also appointed in 1937 honorary air commodore of the 609 (West Riding) Bomber Squadron of the
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Other interests

After the war, Lascelles remained interested in local
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issues and events, often contributing to the Leeds Board of Management. He was president of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council. He was Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1927 until his death. He was president of the
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in 1929 when that year's Royal Show was held at
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. Interested in equestrian sports, he served as Master of the Bramham Moor Hounds from 1921, was a steward of the Jockey Club, and co-editor of ''Flat Racing'' (1940) for the London Library. Lord Harewood, a Freemason, served as Grand Master of the
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from 1942 to 1947.


Political career

As Viscount Lascelles, he attempted to enter the
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in 1913. He stood as the Unionist candidate in the
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. (The
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incumbent, Sir Stanley Buckmaster, had been appointed Solicitor General.) In the three-cornered fight that also included a
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candidate, he came second to Buckmaster by 878 votes. He did not seek election again, and his defeat led to a later distaste for politics. He declared in later life "every war in which Britain had been involved had been due to the inefficiency of politicians, and they began what soldiers had to end". On succeeding to his father's earldom, he became a member of the
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Death and legacy

Lord Harewood died of a heart attack on 24 May 1947 at the age of 64 at his home,
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. He is buried in the Lascelles family vault at All Saints' Church, Harewood. Lady Harewood, the Princess Royal, survived him by almost eighteen years and died in 1965. It is widely understood that
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based the character of Archduke Henry on him in her novel ''Orlando'', a tribute to her lover
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. Henry Lascelles was one of West's suitors. In the 2019 film ''
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'', Viscount Lascelles is played by
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.


Honours and arms

British honours: *
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(DSO), with Bar – 3 June 1918 (Bar – 3 Apr 1919) *
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(KG) – 27 February 1922 * Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem – 1 March 1923 *
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(TD) – 10 May 1929 *
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(GCVO) – 1 January 1934 * Personal Aide-de-Camp (ADC) – 1 February 1937 Foreign honours: * Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) * Grand Cross of Order of Muhammad Ali (
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) *
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(Norway)


Ancestry


References


External links

*
harewood.org

goldsboroughhall.com
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