I have a talk with Peter Wilmot-Sitwell [chairman of SG Warburg] about the Royal Family. Most fascinatingly of all, the Queen tells me of her diary, which she keeps without fail. Princess Margaret later married Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer, in 1960 - but their union didn’t last, and the couple divorced in 1978. As the monarchy lost power through the nineteenth century, they replaced it with performance. For the last thirty-years of his life, Lascelles lived in the Old Stable Block at Kensington Palace and was considered a wise old man who connected The Queen with the reign of her grandfather King George V. For advice on our products or for help placing an order, please call +44(0)20 7734 5985, Henry Poole, 15 Savile Row, London W1S 3PJ. The entry, dated September 23 1984, notes down a conversation between Mr Rose and Jock Colville, the former parliamentary private secretary to the Tory Prime Minister. As early as February 1936, I remember Joey Legh [later, equerry to King George VI] warning me that plans were already afoot to liquidate [Wallis's second husband Ernest] Simpson (matrimonially speaking), and to set the Crown upon the leopardess's head. He returned to England with a new bride, Joan Thesiger, who was the Viceroy of India’s daughter. So I yielded. Have you ever heard of it?'. The king, too, became fired with the Horatio Nelson spirit, an alarming development for his private secretary, Alan "Tommy" Lascelles. [Former Labour Prime Minister] Jim Callaghan says: ‘I must confess I should have done the same.’, I ask the Queen whether she still has to approve the names of all the new warships. Sandringham Estate: Inside the royal residence of the Queen. This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 19, 2007. Julie Burchill. Who is David Lascelles, the 8th Earl of Harewood? If this theory is true, it would certainly account for the fact that it was quite useless to expect him to appreciate any general rules of behaviour. The soulless Edward was king. (Tommy Lascelles died on August 10, 1981, aged 94.) ‘But I have no time to record conversations, only events.’ Nor, she says, does she dictate, finding it inhibiting. Alan Lascelles (1887-1981) "Tommy" Lascelles was Private Secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles Arthur Moore Lascelles (1880-1918), Captain The Durham Light Infantry VC, MC Daniel Lascelles (1655-1734), English landowner and politician of Stank and Northallerton, North Riding, Yorkshire It doesn't mean a thing. Through these roles the position wields considerable influence. The public spectacle has to be a true enough expression of the values it upholds. On 2 June 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey. Under the will, each of his brothers was left a very large sum — about three-quarters of a million in cash; he was left nothing, and was precluded from converting anything (such as the stamp collection, the racehorses, etc.) [The King managed to pull through.]. Charteris war der zweite Sohn von Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, des ältesten Sohnes von Hugo Richard Charteris, 11. Afterwards the High Master asked him what he thought of the boys. We discuss whether the Queen was informed of Anthony Blunt’s treason when he confessed to MI5 in 1964 (though it was not made public till 1979). At a wedding, when asked if he was ‘bride’ or ‘bridegroom’, he replied: ‘I don’t know. 'It's just some election dodge of old Baldwin's. It was to mark his new title and appointment as Personal Secretary to The King that Sir Alan placed his first orders at Henry Poole & Co: a blue dress coat and dress trousers, a pair of stripe winter cashmere trousers and (as war approached) a khaki service jacket. In body, he might have been a sculptor's model; but his mental, moral and aesthetic development, broadly-speaking, remained that of a boy of 17. ‘I asked about a dozen people at 24 hours’ notice, and by great good fortune they were all free to come!’, [Historian] Steven Runciman tells me that when it was decided that Prince Charles should go to Gordonstoun, Princess Marina (later the Duchess of Kent) said to Prince Philip: ‘How like you to send him to the only German school in Britain.’, The Queen Mother, overhearing this, said to Princess Marina: ‘I have always wanted to say that, but didn’t dare.’. Instead, despite a somewhat inactive war, he was awarded the Military Cross. (He told his daughter long after he retired that, if he could have his life again, he would breed horses. I stay for the weekend with [interior decorator] David and Pamela Hicks. He retired from his 27 years of royal service on the last day of 1953, at the age of 66. Thorpe and published by Weidenfeld on November 14 at £30. war sowie 1978 als Life Peer aufgrund des Life Peerages Act 1958 Mitglied des House of Lords wurde. I had been out of England for five years, and during that time had heard little of the Prince of Wales, and less of Mrs [Wallis] Simpson and her immediate predecessors. To order a copy for £24 (offer valid until November 16, 2019; P&P free), visit mailshop.co.uk or call 01603 648155. A drink with [former head of the diplomatic service] Denis Greenhill. Nachdem diese nach dem Tode ihres Vaters König Georg VI. und Mitglied des House of Lords, Hugo Richard Charteris, 11. The Queen is careful never to reveal what she thinks of each, although it is generally known that she and Margaret Thatcher had sharp disagreements on the importance of the Commonwealth. As a young graduate, he was rather louche. Moreover, the implication is that he, a lonely bachelor, 'fell deeply in love' for the first time in his life with the soulmate for whom he had long been waiting. Lavinia Hankinson, who has died aged 97, was the elder daughter of Sir Alan ("Tommy") Lascelles, who served as Private Secretary to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, and his wife . It was he who told Group Captain Peter Townsend 'you must be mad or bad or both', when the courtier declared his intention to marry Princess Margaret. The Crown true story reveals that Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, arranged the first meeting between Philip and Elizabeth in 1939 when the Royal Family toured the Royal Naval College. He says Anthony Blunt should undoubtedly have been sacked from the Royal Household when his treason was first known. Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield, Privatsekretär von Königin Elisabeth II. On Oct. 9, 1940, Lascelles recounts an evening at his club: "there was a crackle in the street like little boys letting off fireworks on Guy Fawkes' day, which proved to be the arrival of a bouquet of incendiary bombs. Nachfolger als Privatsekretär wurde 1977 sein bisheriger Stellvertreter (Deputy Private Secretary), Philip Moore. Bevis Hillier [art historian and author], who is writing [former poet laureate] John Betjeman’s life, tells me that not even in his cups will John Sparrow [Warden of All Souls, Oxford] part with his letters from Betjeman; probably because they shared a salacious interest in little boys’ muddy football shorts. Consequently, when he came to the parting of the ways, he stood there tragically and pitifully alone. Essentially honourable, then, despite being memorably unpleasant. ', 'God forgive me,' said S.B. "Former King's Counsellor's Revealing Diaries". There is no consensus, then, on Lascelles’s true character. Olivia Colman spielt als Elizabeth, zusammen mit den Hauptbesetzern Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Daniels, Jason Watkins, Marion Bailey, Erin Doherty, Jane Lapotaire, Charles Dance . On the Queen, he takes an affectionate but detachedly Whig view. READ MORE: How Princess Margaret branded royal wartime defences 'pathetic', The diary’s entry continued: “Jock replied: ‘I don’t know about Tommy, but Winston did not want to repeat the mistake of 1936.’, “‘Princess Margaret was not pleased by this.’”. To the extent that he was a propagandist, an enemy of Edward VIII, a reactionary, and everything else he is claimed to be, it was because he realised the royal family had very little choice. He was also spitting with rage about the fact that Edward VIII was not patriotic enough: “He never cared about England or the English.” Ferdinand Mount remembers Lascelles visiting his school, where Mount “was startled by his explosion of venom against the Duke of Windsor … He was memorably unpleasant.”. The Prince of Wales enjoyed jazz, cocktails, the Charleston and didn’t know who had written Jane Eyre. Lascelles gets caricatured as a stiff-arsed, hard-bristled, curmudgeonly enforcer of horrible rules in The Crown, forever thwarting true love’s course. To Headington for tea with [philosopher] Isaiah Berlin. — an attitude typical of boyhood. At such a time, junior members of the Household cannot walk out on a new King because they happen to have disapproved of the Prince of Wales. ". But perhaps it can be said no other private secretary had as much knowledge of the Royal Family than the Queen’s first secretary - Sir Alan Lascelles. He told us that when he received the insignia of the CH [Companion of Honour] from the Queen, he felt some resentment against the courtiers, who managed to be both patronising and irritating. A row is ignited when Lascelles retires, after the Queen requests that her friendly aide Charteris is given the top job over his monotonous colleague Sir Michael Adeane - the "natural" heir . There was one curious outward symptom of this. The young man would accede as George VI within 12 months, and Lascelles would become his Private Secretary in 1943. He knew about the atom bomb six months before it was dropped on Japan. Extracted from King's Counsellor: Abdication And War, The Diaries Of Sir Alan Lascelles, to be published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson on August 6 at £13.99. (He gives thanks that he inherited the “long, flat Lascelles thighs.”) His main interest as a young man — just like Edward VIII’s — was to be active. Philip has stayed loyally by the Queen’s side for over 70 years, with the Queen herself describing him as her “strength and stay”. Lascelles had begun his royal career working for Edward when he was Prince of Wales, but quickly soured. 03:37 EST 01 Aug 2020. Sir Alan (Tommy) Lascelles who was Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1943-1953, telling off Martin Charteris (who later took over his position in 1972-1977. I remember Martin Gilliat [the Queen Mother’s private secretary] telling me that the Queen Mother did not like to hear Anthony Blunt disparaged even after he had been exposed by Mrs Thatcher as a Soviet spy. He was also Keeper of the Royal Archives from 1943 to 1953. He read Shakespeare on the Tube as he travelled to meetings at the bank, and wrote amateur poetry. Clive, always an indifferent seer, assured me that I need have no anxiety on that score. Conversation flagged, and to reanimate it the Prince of Wales said brightly: 'Now you can settle this, Mr Hardy. Prior to that Lascelles was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1920, serving in that role until resigning in 1929, citing differences with the prince . Partner content is not updated. Thatcher then said she would like to say goodbye to the Queen, a request that was ignored. The Private Secretary was also privy to King George VI’s explosive temper; episodes he code-named ‘Nashville’ because the monarch gnashed his teeth and raised his clenched fists to heaven. Many people have asked me: 'Could nobody have averted the ultimate catastrophe of the Abdication?' You can unsubscribe at any time. I remember sitting, one hot night, when our train was halted in Dodoma station, deciphering the last and most urgent of several cables from Baldwin begging the Prince to come home at once. READ MORE: The touching secret link that Archie shares with one royal. Roy Jenkins confirms this in his memoirs. He went straight to his room, and for a long time was glued to the telephone. The Private Secretary is the principal channel of communication between the monarch and the governments in most of the Commonwealth realms. [note 1] They also have responsibility for the official programme and correspondence of the Sovereign. The royal aide was also apparently partly responsible for the decision not to give the Queen’s children their father’s surname. With the heavyweight of the crown now on her shoulders, who could the Queen turn to for guidance?
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