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3 de abr. de 2021 · Personajes inolvidables de series: Tommy Lascelles, de 'The Crown'. Si algo destaca en la serie que retrata a la familia real británica es el personaje de Sir Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, el secretario y consejero de los reyes. Un hombre pragmático perfectamente consciente de que tenía que garantizar la supervivencia de una institución anacrónica.
16 de may. de 2007 · 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.
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 ...
14 de sept. de 2021 · Tommy Lascelles, as he was known, was christened Alan. His uncle was 5th Earl of Harewood, whose son married George V's daughter, the Princess Royal. Won MC during WWI, served briefly in India, where he met his future wife Joan, the daughter of the Viceroy.
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.
14 de sept. de 2021 · Alan "Tommy" Lascelles served four British monarchs as Assistant Private Secretary or Private Secretary from 1935 until 1953. In these important roles, Lascelles would have contact with George V, Edward VIII, George VI and Elizabeth II. He kept a diary from early 1936 (about the time of George V's death) until after WWII in 1946.
- Alan 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 ...
