Gerald Lascelles

Who was Gerald Lascelles?

The Honourable Gerald David Lascelles was the younger son of Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood and Mary, Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. He was the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was styled The Honourable Gerald Lascelles. He and his first cousin, The Princess Margaret, 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. After Edward VIII abdicated, he became 8th in the line of succession.

On 15 July 1952, he married Angela Estree Lyssod D'Arcy Dowding at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They then moved into a house in Albion mews, W2. Before divorcing in 1978, they had one son:

Henry Ulick Lascelles, born on 19 May 1953. Henry married first Alexandra Morton on 25 August 1979, divorced 1999, and second Fiona Wilmott in 2006. He has one son by his first marriage, Maximilian John Gerald, born 19 December 1991.

On 17 November 1978, Lascelles married his second wife, Elizabeth Evelyn Collingwood, in Vienna, Austria. They had a son: