#earl of harewood

[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!

[heavyarethecrowns]

[postcard-from-the-past]

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

British vintage postcard

[missmarymaywindsor]

Hello!

I apologise for just seeing this!

Contrary to popular belief Mary and Harry were actually a very devoted and loving couple who adored each other.

Mary’s eldest son George noted in his biography that he never saw his parents so happy than when they were scheming together and making plans.

Mary went to pieces after Harry died, carrying round pictures of him whenever she travelled. In the first year or two after his death she was not able to be left alone for fear that she would fall apart in her grief for him. She refused to permit any changes at Harewood to any items that Harry had installed. She even had her Christmas card picture taken beneath a painting of him, similarly to how Queen Victoria did of Albert.

After conversations with officials at Harewood House I can confirm they had nicknames for each other but they have asked that these are not revealed to the wider public as they are included in private correspondence.

Because of the age gap few could comprehend that such a marriage would be happy but the two were blissful and the best of friends, sharing passions for horse-racing, gardening, arts and culture. A particular favourite pastime of theirs would be to walk the gardens together and ask the gardeners about the rhododendrons, laughing secretly together as the running joke was the many incorrect and strange pronunciations they heard of the word. She even had these flowers placed on her wreath for him with a note that said something along the lines of (I’m afraid I don’t have the book with me to check) ‘with thanks for 25 years of perfect love and companionship.’

Hope this helps! ❤️

Princess Mary countess of harewood did she had a happy relationship With her husband Harry lascelles ?

many articles say they been in an unhappy marriage

I don't believe those articles ;/

Hello Anon! Unfortunately I don’t know much about the details of the relationship so I don’t think that I would be suitable for answering this question. People that would be great are @missmarymaywindsor and @darlinggeorgiedear

All of the information that I know is that they didn’t have the best relationship but it definitely wasn’t bad. The probably loved each other a little bit but they definitely weren’t soulmates. Henry was A LOT older than Mary, and as that wasn’t unusual for the time, it might’ve set the tones for a less happy marriage. But they ended up having 2 kids together so I don’t think that the marriage was a fail. They most likely respected eachother and found comfort in one’s presence.

Thank you for asking me questions!!!

[grandmaster-anne]

Great-grandchildren of Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

via George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood → David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood

Lady Emily Tsering Lascelles Shard (1975)

Benjamin George Lascelles (1978)

Alexander Edgar Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (1980) heir-apparent to the earldom

Hon. Edward David Lascelles (1982)

[nervoussystemmusicreverence]

The Bible - Honey Be Good

Music Video

Artist

The Bible

Composer

The Bible

Produced

Steve Earle

Credit

Boo Hewerdine - Voice, Guitar Greg Harewood - bass Dave Larcombe - drum Neill MacColl - guitar, mandolin Tony Shepherd - Keyboards, Percussion

Released

1988

Streaming

[inky-duchess]

If a monarch had a sister (with a princess title) who marries a lord, does she move down in rank or does he move up? And is it different if a brother with the prince title marries a lady?

No, the royal never changes status but they are the higher rank. They will always be Prince/Princess. For example Princess Mary married the Earl of Harewood and she became Countess of Harewood but she remained Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood and addressed as Her Royal Highness rather than Lady Harewood. However, there are exceptions. In the Japanese monarchy, women who marry out immediately lose their titles and status so they would take their spouses status.

[reasonsforhope]

Non-paywall version here.

"When Arley Gill, head of Grenada’s National Reparations Committee, envisioned his work seeking repair for centuries of enslavement on the Caribbean island, one thing was certain: It was going to be a long slog.

But just two years since its founding, the task force is fielding calls from individuals around the world looking to make amends for ancestors who benefited from enslavement in Grenada. 

“If you had told us this would be happening, we wouldn’t have believed you,” Mr. Gill says, crediting a burgeoning movement of descendants of enslavers getting wise to their family’s history and taking action. 

In Grenada’s case, the momentum began with a public apology made by former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her family in February at a ceremony on the island. They apologized for their forebears’ enslavement of people in Grenada and their enrichment from it, pledging an initial contribution of £100,000 ($130,000) toward education on the island.

“She opened the doors for people to feel comfortable” coming forward, says Mr. Gill.

In April [2023], Ms. Trevelyan and journalist Alex Renton co-founded an organization called Heirs of Slavery. Its eight British members have ancestors who benefited financially from slavery in various ways...

Heirs of Slavery says wealth and privilege trickle down through generations, and that there are possibly millions of Britons whose lives were touched by money generated from enslavement. 

The group aims to amplify the voices of those already calling for reparations, like Caribbean governments. And it supports organizations working to tackle the modern-day consequences of slavery, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, from racism to health care inequities. But it’s also setting an example for others, drafting a road map of reparative justice for enslavement – at the individual level...

“Shining a light is always a good idea,” says Mr. Renton, who published a book in 2021 about his family’s ties to slavery, donating the proceeds to a handful of nongovernmental organizations in the Caribbean and England. “You don’t have to feel guilt about it; you can’t change the past,” he says, paraphrasing Sir Geoff Palmer, a Scottish Jamaican scholar. “But we should feel ashamed that up to this point we’ve done nothing about the consequences” of slavery.

Start anywhere

Most Africans trafficked to the Americas and Caribbean during the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended up in the West Indies. The wealth generated there through unpaid, brutal, forced labor funded much of Europe’s Industrial Revolution and bolstered churches, banks, and educational institutions. When slavery was abolished in British territories in 1833, the government took out a loan to compensate enslavers for their lost “property.” The government only finished paying off that debt in 2015. 

The family of David Lascelles, the 8th Earl of Harewood, for example, received more than £26,000 from the British government after abolition in compensation for nearly 1,300 lives, while “the enslaved people were given nothing,” Mr. Lascelles says. He joined Heirs of Slavery upon its founding, eager to collaborate with peers doing work he’s been focused on for decades.

“People like us have, historically, kept quiet about what our ancestors did. We believe the time has come to face up to what happened, to acknowledge the ongoing repercussions of this human tragedy, and support the existing movements to discuss repair and reconciliation,” reads the group’s webpage.

For Ms. Trevelyan, that meant a very public apology – and resigning from journalism to dedicate herself to activism...

For Mr. Lascelles, a second cousin of King Charles, making repairs included in 2014 handing over digitized copies of slavery-related documents discovered in the basement of the Downton Abbey-esque Harewood House to the National Archives in Barbados, where much of his family’s wealth originated during enslavement. 

“What can we do that is actually useful and wanted – not to solve our own conscience?” he says he asks himself...

“Listen and learn”

...The group is planning a conference this fall that will bring together families that benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade along with representatives from Caribbean governments and Black Europeans advocating for reparations. In the meantime, members are meeting with local advocacy groups to better understand what they want – and how Heirs of Slavery might assist.

At a recent meeting, “there was one man who said he wanted to hear what we had to say, but said he saw us as a distraction. And I understand that,” says Mr. Renton. “Maximum humility is necessary on our part. We are here to listen and learn, not try to take the lead and be the boss.”

Mr. Renton’s family has made donations to youth development and educational organizations, but he doesn’t see it as compensation. “I see this as work of repair. If I sold everything I own, I couldn’t begin to compensate for the lives my ancestors destroyed,” he says."

-via The Christian Science Monitor, August 1, 2023

Note: I know the source name probably inspires skepticism for a lot of people (fairly), but they're actually considered a very reliable and credible publication in both accuracy and lack of bias.

[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 ❤️‍🩹

[ginandoldlace]

The state funeral of King George V took place in St George’s Chapel  in 1936. Mourners were led by the late King’s son, King Edward VIII. All four of King George’s surviving sons (The King, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester, and The Duke of Kent) marched behind his coffin in a procession through Windsor, having partaken in the Vigil of the Princes at Westminster Hall the day prior. In the procession, they were also joined by The Earl of Harewood, the husband of the King’s only daughter, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal.

After the funeral, the late King was initially interred in the Royal Vault, but was moved to his permanent resting place in 1939. His wife, Queen Mary, was laid to rest beside him following her death in 1953.

[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.

[heavyarethecrowns]

[ex-frat-man]

Orpheus and Leopard, 1980, bronze

Commissioned by 7th Earl of Harewood; located at Harewood House in Yorkshire, England.

Harewood was the elder son of the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.

[george-the-good]

The Sunday Pictorial - May 18, 1947

By a Special Contributor to the ‘Sunday Pictorial’

The tumult and the shouting dies. But for the King there can be no relaxation. When the cheering crowds disperse and go home, he has a tedious exacting job to do at his desk.

Throughout Britain this week the talk has been of our King and Queen. When they left for South Africa they were envied their promise of sunshine and non-austerity food.

Then, day after day, we heard of them giving a reception here, auditions there... It was work, hard work.

And now they are back… to work again in surroundings so familiar that they lack the excitement and glamour of the young Dominion.

Passers-by, looking up at the Royal Standard floating above Buckingham Palace, know that the King is back in London and try to imagine what he is doing. But all that emerges from behind those grey stone walls is a dull, factual Court Circular, with its list of people received, Privy Councils held, and ladies and gentlemen in attendance.

Now let’s go through the tall, double glass doors of the Privy Purse, the ‘business’ entrance of the Palace, on your right as you face it from the Mall, and see how the King’s day is planned, how the head of the Empire does his work.

In general control of the King’s official activities is his private secretary, holder of an office that has grown in importance greatly during the past three reigns until today it is often referred to as that of the ‘Sovereign’s Personal Prime Minister.’

The present private secretary is sparsely built, quizzical Sir Alan Lascelles, who holds the office not because he is first cousin to the Earl of Harewood, the King’s brother-in-law, but because of his long record as a servant of the Crown. He was assistant private secretary to the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales, private secretary to the Governor-General of Canada, and assistant private secretary to George V, Edward VIII and George VI.

Always an early riser, Sir Alan walks over from his house at St. James’s - which he has rent free as part of his salary - just after nine, and is firmly seated at his desk, with a good idea of the news of the day, by nine-thirty. At any moment after that a bell may ring, and an old-fashioned card indicator on the wall falls, showing the words ‘The King.’

Then Sir Alan, known to the King and Queen and to everyone else at the palace as Tommy, ‘goes up’ to the King. Those words are literally as well as constitutionally true, for the King’s business room - he does not call it his study - is on the first floor.

With the King, Tommy will go through the latest dispatches and messages from our Ambassadors abroad, reports from Whitehall, minutes from various Government departments, ‘submissions’ from the Prime Minister and from the Premiers of the Dominions, each of whom has the right of direct approach to the King.

Tommy knows more of what is going on all over the Empire and the world than anyone else, except the King. That’s part of his job.

It is his task to advise the King on every kind of problem, from whether he should accept an invitation to open an agricultural show, to what he should say in a Christmas broadcast, or whether and how he should intervene in some major crisis in public affairs.

Under Sir Alan are two assistant private secretaries, who take on the routine work, fixing details of programmes for provincial visits by the King and Queen, arranging for audiences and so on.

Part of their task is to furnish a short ‘aide-memoire’ for the King about everyone whom he receives in audience. The King has a really remarkable memory for faces and names, but he cannot be expected to remember details of each man’s career, of the interests and attainments of everyone he meets.

Another of their responsibilities is to furnish rough outline material for the King’s speeches, material which the King himself will later review and arrange.

Altogether there are about forty-five active members of the Royal Household in daily attendance at the Palace, not counting another fifty or more extra equerries, ushers, chaplains and holders of political appointments to the Household. They are the men - and women - who comprise the Court of St. James’s, the wheels in the smooth-running machine of British monarchy.

Today the Palace is run not as a great gentleman’s house, with everything in profusion regardless of cost, and kindly but not over-efficient amateurs holding important jobs, but on strict business lines.

In any business house it is true that if the boss is slack or unpunctual, the rest of the staff are likely to fall off in efficiency. That is true at the Palace as well, and the ‘boss’ - the King - is as hard working, as early rising as anyone on his staff.

Seven-thirty is his normal hour for rising, and he has his simple breakfast alone - bacon is his favourite dish, but the ration does not always run to it. Immediately afterwards he walks into his ‘business room,’ unlocks the red-leather dispatch boxes which have been brought in by the Page of the Presence - an old and trusted Palace servant - and settles down to read.

His papers may include a secret report from a British ambassador on the state of war-preparedness in the country to which he is accredited, and a memorandum on the miners’ attitude to nationalisation of the coalfields, as well as half a dozen other important matters. All of these the King reads and digests.

Presently he rings for his secretary, and the long morning procession begins, to end before lunch with perhaps a new ambassador coming to present his ‘letters of credence’ or a new bishop to do homage on bended knee before the secular head of the Established Church, or an Empire statesman or an outgoing Governor-General to have audience and stay to lunch.

Almost every day the King and Queen lunch together, usually with Princess Elizabeth at table as well, and over lunch the family discuss their plans, arrange theatre parties or dances, talk over the coming week-end at Royal Lodge, and chat of the everyday familiar things that are part of any family’s life.

If there are important State guests at luncheon, the talk is naturally on a more serious plane, and Elizabeth, who meets as many of the important Palace visitors as possible, as part of her training, joins in the conversation.

After luncheon, the King likes to take a short stroll in the Palace gardens, sometimes with Elizabeth and her Corgi dog, sometimes alone. Then it is back to his desk till tea time.

Tea is another family gathering, after which, there is usually a final audience the King must give to the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, or some other highly placed member of his Government.

Between then and dinner, the King sits at his desk tidying up the odds and ends left over during the day: for he is a man with a tidy mind, as befits a former naval officer, and he cannot bear leaving over things unfinished till the next day.

Often it is seven-thirty before he is finished - and that means that one or other of the secretaries, if not all three, is still on duty - and the royal dinner is served at eight.

There is just time to bath and dress - the King nearly always wears a dinner jacket and black tie - before he joins the Queen and the Princesses for what they all regard as the pleasantest part of the day.

In armchairs, the King and Queen and their daughters like to sit, the King reading a light book for relaxation, or looking at a sporting magazine, the Queen knitting or doing embroidery, and the Princesses reading or studying.

Even then, the King is not off duty. At any moment there may be a telephone call from Whitehall, a Government messenger may come to the Palace with urgent dispatches which the King must see at once.

Then the private line to Tommy’s house over at St. James’s comes into action, and if the matter is one of real gravity, the King’s secretary will leave his own home and rejoin his master for a conference that may go on till midnight.

For being the King-Emperor is a full-time job. He is, indeed, the servant of his own subjects and he is ready always to turn from his own recreations to the duty which is not of his own choice, but which he has accepted at all times with unflagging zeal.

[grandmaster-anne]

Great-grandchildren of Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

via George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood → Hon. James Edward Lascelles

Sophie Amber Lascelles Pearce (1973)

Rowan Nash Lascelles (1977)

Tanit Lee Lascelles (1981)

Tewa Ziyane Robert George Lascelles (1985)