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Sir Alan Lascelles was born into the courtier class. A grandson of the 4 th Earl of Harewood, he was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became assistant private secretary to the Prince of Wales in 1920 having served as aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law, Lord Lloyd, who was Governor of Bombay.
Sir Alan Lascelles, known as 'Tommy', writes well, but can't do sums. He said 4% death rate for bombing raids wasn't too bad considering the circumstances. What he didn't consider was that this figure was for each individual raid, so if 100 planes started and lost 4, then the remaining 96 went on next raid and lost 4 and a little bit, then 91 went again and lost 4 and a bit more, then 86 ...
Lascelles's last entry was in 1946 - he was just too tired to continue - and he retired in 1953 as Queen Elizabeth II's private secretary, having served four monarchs. Though he often helped historians before his death in 1981 at the age of 94, he offered only tantalizing glimpses of his raw diaries, carefully locked away in a chest.
Lascelles writes revealingly, first-hand, about events like the Titanic and the first use of poison gas during the war. The WWI section was the best, though it makes for undeniably grim reading with his own frontline service and the loss of so many of his close friends.
Alan Frederick Lascelles, nado en Sutton Waldron o 11 de abril de 1887 e finado en Kensington o 10 de agosto de 1981, foi un funcionario público británico, secretario privado de Xurxo VI e Isabel II.. Traxectoria. Naceu no seo dunha familia aristocrática, seu pai era o comandante Frederick Canning Lascelles, fillo de Henry Lascelles, conde de Harewood e súa nai Frederica Maria Liddell era ...
19 de oct. de 2015 · Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles was born on 11 April 1887 at Sutton Waldron House in Dorset. He was the sixth and youngest child, and only surviving son, of Commander Frederick Canning Lascelles.
The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom beginning in 1950, under which the sovereign can refuse a request from the prime minister to dissolve Parliament if three conditions are met: if the sovereign could "rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working ...
