"George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, (7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011), styled The Hon. George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was the elder son of the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. At his birth, he was 6th in the line of succession; at his death, he was 46th. Lord Harewood was the eldest nephew of both King Edward VIII and King George VI and was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth"
"Harold Harefoot Harold I ( 1016 – 17 March 1040), also known as Harold Harefoot, was King of England from 1035 to 1040. Harold's nickname ""Harefoot"" is first recorded as ""Harefoh"" or ""Harefah"" in the twelfth century in the history of Ely Abbey, and according to late medieval chroniclers it meant that he was fleet of foot. The son of Cnut the Great and Ælfgifu of Northampton, Harold was elected regent of England, following the death of his father in 1035. He was initially ruling England in place of his brother Harthacnut, who was stuck in Denmark due to a"
"widow of Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet, on 31March 1770. His stepdaughters were Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington and Seymour Fleming, later noted for the separation scandal involving her husband Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet. A picture of Seymour still hangs in Harewood House. Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1713, in Barbados – 25 January 1795) was a wealthy West Indian plantation owner of English ancestry. He was the elder son of Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) and Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune, leaving Edwin's younger brother Daniel as head of the business, whilst"
"Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British royal family. She was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary and was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, her great-grandmother. Mary was the paternal aunt of the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Her education started at home. World War I brought Mary out of seclusion as she launched a charity campaign to support British troops and sailors. She eventually became"
"years, being used as Dower House, the heirs-in-waiting house, a hunting lodge, or even rented out when not needed for the viscount, earl in waiting. In the late 19th century the hall was rented out to Sir Andrew Fairbairn, a Liberal MP, while he was building his country house at Askham Grange and the estate at Askham Richards. The Hall became the first family home of Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood and Viscount Lascelles, Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood after their marriage in 1922. Their son, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood was christened at"
"gentry family, amassed such extraordinary wealth and influence that his eldest son Edwin was raised to the English nobility as 1st Baron Harewood; he established Harewood House, still the family seat. The next generation of Lascelles was promoted to an hereditary earldom, still in existence today. Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) Henry Lascelles (1690 – 16 October 1753) was an English-born Barbados plantation owner. He was the son of Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734) and Margaret Metcalfe. He served as Collector of Customs for the British government in Barbados. He was a director of the British East India Company 1737-45, a financier, and Member"
"Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1713, in Barbados – 25 January 1795) was a wealthy West Indian plantation owner of English ancestry. He was the elder son of Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) and Mary Carter. His father split the family fortune, leaving Edwin's younger brother Daniel as head of the business, whilst raising Edwin as a lord of the manor over their English estates. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and on a European Grand Tour. He fought against the Jacobites (1745), and entered Parliament as MP for Scarborough from 1744 to 1754. He was"
"has Harold and Harthacnut dividing the realms of their father in an agreement. It also features Harold offering hospitality to his half-brother Edward the Confessor, but they were actually step-brothers, and Edward only settled in England following the death of Harold. Harold Harefoot Harold I ( 1016 – 17 March 1040), also known as Harold Harefoot, was King of England from 1035 to 1040. Harold's nickname ""Harefoot"" is first recorded as ""Harefoh"" or ""Harefah"" in the twelfth century in the history of Ely Abbey, and according to late medieval chroniclers it meant that he was fleet of foot. The son"
"Alexander Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles Alexander Edgar Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (born 13 May 1980), known as ""Orly"" - is an English chef, and the third child and second son of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, and his first wife Margaret, Viscountess Lascelles. He is a direct descendent of King George V and is 60th in line to the British throne. He is heir apparent to the earldom of Harewood, due to his elder brother having been born before their parents marriage. Lascelles married at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on 18 August 2017, Annika Reed (b. 1984), the daughter of"
"School in Leathers Lane. In the sciences, one Halewood family produced two Fellows of the Royal Society: John Hilton Grace, a mathematician; and his nephew, Alan Robertson, an animal geneticist. The Grace family lived at Okells Farm and Court Farm. Halewood Halewood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It lies near the city of Liverpool's southeastern boundary, bordered by the suburbs of Netherley, Hunt's Cross and Woolton. Historically a part of Lancashire, at the 2001 Census, the population of the civil parish was 20,309, remaining similar at the 2011 Census. The combined population of"
"Battle of the Boyne in 1690. The story goes that Robert Byerley captured a fine brown horse at the Battle of Buda, the Byerley Turk, which is the eldest founding father to all thoroughbred horses. The Byerley Turk was buried at the Hall in 1706. As Robert and Mary Byerley's five children all died without issue, the Hall was sold to Daniel Lascelles about 1756 and became part of the Harewood estate during the construction of Harewood House in the 1750s. The house was remodelled by John Carr and Robert Adam. The Hall remained within the Lascelles family for 200"
"Harewood Harewood ( ) is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 3,734. It sits in the Harewood ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. The A61 from Leeds city centre to Harrogate passes through the village. The A659 from Collingham joins the A61 outside the main entrance to Harewood House ( ) to descend the slopes of the Wharfe valley before continuing towards Pool-in-Wharfedale. The Harewood Arms public house and hotel is opposite the entrance to the Harewood"
"Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire on 22 April 1904, serving as such until 14 December 1927. In early 1901 Lord Harewood was asked by King Edward to take part in a special diplomatic mission to announce the King's accession to the governments of France, Spain, and Portugal. In 1908, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1922. On 29 October 1881 he married Lady Florence Katharine Bridgeman, daughter of Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford, and they had three children:"
"Duchess of Rothesay. He received the National Jewish Theatre Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. In May 2017 an authorized biography of Harwood, ""Speak Well of Me"" by W. Sydney Robinson, was published by Oberon Books. He attended the Seapoint Boys' High School in that area of Cape Town. He moved to England in 1951. In 1959, he married Natasha Riehle (1938–2013), a descendant of Russian nobility. They had three children: Antony (born 1960), Deborah (born 1963), and Alexandra (born 1966). The actor Sir Antony Sher is his cousin. He is the brother of South African dance critic Eve Borland."
"Harewood Castle Harewood Castle is a 14th-century stone hall house and courtyard fortress, located on the Harewood Estate, Harewood, in West Yorkshire, England (Grid Reference SE 322457). Harewood Castle is a grade I listed building. The castle was founded by Sir William De Aldeburgh; he was granted a licence to crenellate in 1366. He built the rectangular tower house on a steep slope, where it is visible for miles around. The main block of two storeys is flanked by four angle towers, one being a plain entrance tower; the chapel is situated over the portcullis chamber. The lower kitchen wing"
"name to Hare. Thomas Hare (MP) Sir Thomas Hare, 4th Baronet (1690–1760) Stow Bardolph, Norfolk was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1715. Hare was the second son of Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet of Stow Hall and his wife Elizabeth Dashwood, daughter of George Dashwood of Hackney. He entered Oriel College, Oxford in 1703. At the 1713 Hare was returned as Member of Parliament for Truro. He opposed the Hanoverian Succession, and in June was awarded a post as first register and clerk of the crown in Barbados. On the accession of"
"Emily Shard Lady Emily Tsering Shard (née Lascelles, born 23 November 1975) is the eldest child and only daughter of the 8th Earl of Harewood, a British film producer who is the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Harewood (himself a first cousin of the Queen). Emily and her brother, Benjamin, were born out of wedlock and therefore have no claims to the Harewood titles, nor places in the line of succession to the British throne. Their two younger brothers are legitimate. Though they were born illegitimate, Emily and Benjamin were later legitimised by the Privy Council and given"
"Harewood married Marion Stein, a concert pianist and the daughter of the Viennese music publisher Erwin Stein. Lord and Lady Harewood had three sons: This marriage ended in divorce in 1967, considered a scandal at the time. Stein went on to marry politician Jeremy Thorpe. Lord Harewood was married a second time on 31 July 1967 to Patricia ""Bambi"" Tuckwell (24 November 1926 – 4 May 2018), an Australian violinist and sister of the musician Barry Tuckwell. The wedding took place at Waveny Park in New Canaan, Connecticut. They were obliged to be married abroad as, in England, registry office"
"Harewood Park Harewood Park is a rural estate of in Herefordshire, England, which has been owned by the Duchy of Cornwall since 2000. It is located roughly midway between Hereford and Ross-on-Wye. The land at Harewood Park was part of a royal hunting estate, which was granted by King John to the Knights Templar of the nearby village of Garway in 1215. By 1312 it was recorded as containing a hall, grange and chapel. After the Knights Templar were disbanded, the estate passed to the Knights Hospitaller until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. The land was then"
"of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle and Order of St Patrick. The latest memorial in the church is on the north wall; it is to the memory of the 6th Earl of Harewood and his wife, Mary, Princess Royal. The stained glass in the west window is from the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe. All Saints' Church, Harewood All Saints' Church is a 15th-century redundant church in the park of Harewood House, the seat of the Earls of Harewood, near the village of Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in"
"architects, geologists, structural engineers, ecologists and staff of the Harewood Estate, Historic Property Restoration Ltd and English Heritage, was nearing completion. The castle was taken off the Buildings at Risk Register in that year. Harewood Castle Harewood Castle is a 14th-century stone hall house and courtyard fortress, located on the Harewood Estate, Harewood, in West Yorkshire, England (Grid Reference SE 322457). Harewood Castle is a grade I listed building. The castle was founded by Sir William De Aldeburgh; he was granted a licence to crenellate in 1366. He built the rectangular tower house on a steep slope, where it is"
"Harewood Grove. He married twice, first to Isabel Matilda Robinson (1837-1862) the daughter of Joseph Robinson of Southend and they had two children. After Isabel's death he married Ann Hudson only child of William Hudson of Brough, Yorkshire. They had a son and four daughters. Both his sons became architects. George Gordon Hoskins George Gordon Hoskins FRIBA (28 October 1837 – 11 December 1911), was an English architect responsible for the design of several public buildings in the North East of England. His works include many large and important buildings - mansions, banks, hotels, hospitals, libraries, and schools. ""Gee-Gee"" Hoskins"
"Arthur Heywood Sir Arthur Percival Heywood, 3rd Baronet (25 December 1849 – 19 April 1916) was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Percival Heywood. He grew up in the family home of Dove Leys at Denstone in Staffordshire. He is best known today as the innovator of the fifteen inch minimum gauge railway, for estate use. Dove Leys looked over the valley where the North Staffordshire Railway from Rocester to Ashbourne ran. The family travelled by train to their relatives in Manchester and on holiday to Inveran in the Highland region of Scotland. Heywood developed a passion for the railway"
"Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, was awarded her own personal arms, being the royal arms, differenced by a label argent of three points, each bearing a cross gules. Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British royal family. She was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary and was born during the reign of Queen Victoria, her great-grandmother. Mary was the paternal aunt of the current British monarch,"
"Gerald David Lascelles Gerald David Lascelles (21 August 1924 – 27 February 1998) was the younger son of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood and Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. He was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was styled ""The Honourable"" Gerald Lascelles. He and his first cousin, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, shared the same birthday. Lascelles was born at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, and was baptised with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of York as his godparents. At his birth, he was 7th"
"instead. At his death in 1860, Holdsworth left an enormous estate. Arthur Howe Holdsworth in 1807 married Catherine Henrietta Eastabrooke (1789-1878), daughter of John Eastabrooke and his wife Catherine Henrietta, widow of Robert Carr. His middle name was a tribute to the British Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, a family friend who served as one of two members of Parliament from Dartmouth from 1757 to 1782, overlapping the service in Parliament of Arthur Howe (1780–1786). The Holdsworth family later intermarried with other prominent West Country families, including the St. Aubyns of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, the Bastard family of"
"unmarried in 1738. His executors sold to Henry Lascelles (1690–1753) whose son, Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood built Harewood House. Centuries after it had been abandoned, Harewood Castle remained a landmark, the subject of several paintings in the 1797 by J. M. W. Turner. Recent times saw decay and weathering take their toll, and the unstable castle was placed on the Buildings at Risk Register by English Heritage. Then, around the year 2000, a £1 million rescue plan was drawn up, funded partly through English Heritage and partly by the Harewood Estate. As of 2008, the restoration project, which involved"
"is Netherwood Manor at Thornbury, Herefordshire, near Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. The former was Cobham Hall, near Gravesend, Kent, and the family still retains some property in the village. The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son Harry Robert Stuart Bligh, Lord Clifton (b. 1999) Earl of Darnley Earl of Darnley is a hereditary title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation in the Scots Peerage came in 1580 in favour of Esme Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, who was created Duke of Lennox at"
"Baron Inglewood Baron Inglewood, of Hutton in the Forest in the County of Cumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1964 for the Conservative politician William Fletcher-Vane. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Lyonel Vane, younger brother of Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard, who had succeeded to the barony of Barnard in 1891 on the death of his distant relative Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland and 8th Baron Barnard. William Lyonel Vane and his brother the ninth Baron Barnard were both great-great-grandsons of Hon. Morgan Vane, younger son"
"Ælfwine Haroldsson Ælfwine Haroldsson or Ælfwine was most probably an illegitimate son of King Harold Harefoot of England. He was probably born during the early 1030s, either in Scandinavia or after 1035 in England. He appears in an early twelfth-century cartulary from the monastery of Sainte Foi at Conques in Aquitaine as ""Alboynus"" (a cognate of Ælfwine), alongside the records that he was born in London and was the son of a King ""Heroldus"" (a Latinised version of Harold) and one ""Alveva"" (""Ælfgifu"" Latinised). It is also noted that he arrived in Conques in 1060 on pilgrimage and persuaded the"
"Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 22nd Earl of Waterford, 7th Earl Talbot, 7th Viscount of Ingestre, 7th Baron Dynevor (born 18 December 1952), styled Viscount of Ingestre until 1980, is an English nobleman and the Lord High Steward of Ireland. He is the premier earl in the Peerage of England as the Earl of Shrewsbury (created 1442), and in the Peerage of Ireland as the Earl of Waterford (1446). He also holds the titles of Earl Talbot and Baron Talbot. He is the fifth child and eldest son"
"that this could also serve as a punishment for Godwine, who had served as a chief supporter of Harold, and was now tasked with the gruesome task. Harold may have had a wife, Ælfgifu, and a son, Ælfwine, who became a monk on the continent when he was older – his monastic name was Alboin. Ælfwine/Alboin is recorded in 1060 and 1062 in charters from the Abbey Church of Saint Foy in Conques, which mention him as son of """"Heroldus rex fuit Anglorum"""" (Latin: Harold, who was king of the English People). Harold Harefoot is the most likely father as"
"nobleman Harold Harefoot, as well as Alfred Ætheling and Edward (later, King Edward the Confessor), the exiled sons of Æthelred the Unready. Isolated in Scandinavia, Harthacnut was unable to prevent Harold Harefoot seizing the crown for himself. Ruling England from 1035, Harold died in 1040 just as Harthacnut was preparing an invasion. Arriving soon after Harold's death, Harthacnut reigned in England only two years before his own death in 1042, a death that led to the peaceful succession of Edward. Frank Barlow speculated on Siward's political stance, guessing that during these upheavals Siward assumed ""a position of benevolent or prudent"