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VI’s private secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, described how he had lunched with his friend Cosmo Lang, ‘whose mind is as good as ever, despite his evident physical frailty (he is eighty-one)’. 1 The old archbishop, now retired from episcopal duties, had given Lascelles what the latter termed ‘good, and
Sir Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles's diaries begin with Edward VIII's abdication and end with George VI's death and his daughter Elizabeth's Coronation. In between we see George VI at work and play, a portrait more intimate than any other previously published.
- Alan Lascelles
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.
Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (/ˈlæsəls/; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. In 1950, he wrote the Lascelles Principles in a letter to the editor of The Times ...
16 de nov. de 2006 · Kings Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles (ed. Duff Hart-Davies, Weidenfiend and Nicolson £25) The last volume of Sir Alan Lascelles’s diaries, published in 1989, left him disillusioned with the abdicating Edward VIII, whom he called ‘the most tragic might-have-been in all history’.
Born. in Sutton Waldron, Dorset, England. April 11, 1887. Died. August 10, 1981. Genre. Memoir. edit data. Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles GCB GCVO CMG MC was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and to ...
Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (/ˈlæsəls/; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. In 1950, he wrote the Lascelles Principles in a letter to the editor of The Times ...
