Background
Lascelles was the son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood and Lady Florence Bridgeman.
Lascelles was the son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood and Lady Florence Bridgeman.
Lascelles attended the Royal Military College before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards on 12 February 1902.
He was the son-in-law of King George V and Queen Mary. He went on to command the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards during the First World War. After the war had ceased (1918), Lascelles remained interested in local Yorkshire issues and events, often contributing to the Leeds Board of Management.
He was president of the Yorkshire Rural Community Council.
Lord Harewood married Princess Mary, only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, at Westminster Abbey, on 28 February 1922. Harry Gray named his then new 1921 Burrell 8 North.H.P. Scenic Showman"s Engine Lord Lascelles after him, an engine that still exists and is regularly rallied.
lieutenant is also widely understood that Virginia Woolf based the character of Archduke Henry on him in her novel Orlando, a tribute to her lover Vita Sackville-West. Henry Lascelles was one of West"s suitors.
9 September 1882 – 24 June 1892: Henry Lascelles 24 June 1892 – 6 October 1929: Viscount Lascelles 6 October 1929 – 24 May 1947: The Rt.
Honorary The Earl of Harewood.