Literatur und Weblinks. My mother was born in February 1922 and her pram was decorated with snowdrops in honour of Lord Harewood’s parents’ marriage. Lord Harewood, who was first cousin to the Queen, passed away peacefully at his home, Harewood House, near Leeds on Monday 11th July 2011 aged 88.It was Lord Harewood’s wish that Harewood House and Grounds should continue to remain open to the public on his death, and during the period of family mourning leading up to his funeral. George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, KBE, AM, styled The Hon. He had been sixth in the line of succession at his birth. He founded Opera magazine in 1950, and also edited, and thoroughly revised, Kobbé's Complete Opera Book (1954) – having damningly reviewed an earlier edition in Opera.Harewood was in the line of succession to the throne because his mother, Princess Mary, was George V's only daughter, and Princess Royal. George Lascelles was born at his parents' London home of Chesterfield House on 7 February 1923, the first child of Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, and Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, and first grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary, who stood as sponsors at his christening. His fascination with performers such as Maria Callas, whom he engaged for many roles at Covent Garden, was not the deference of a fan, but the grateful friendship of somebody who really knew what the adoption of an artificial role could cost and what benefit it might bring people. On 7 February 1956, he took his seat in the House of Lords.A music enthusiast, Lord Harewood devoted most of his career to The earl's marriage to Marion Stein ended in divorce in 1967, after the earl's mistress, Patricia Tuckwell, had given birth to his son. I often saw him at concerts and the opera until the last couple of years.Lored Harewood has had a very successful life. Our aim is to offer a wide range of news items and present them in an interesting way for all ages.We are asking our readers to make a small donation, either as a one-off donation or a regular donation each month. The family share their time between 1929 Death of 5th Earl of Harewood. The improvement in its fortunes over the following years was not down to Harewood primarily, but to a local businessman, Harry Reynolds, who a few weeks later became its chairman. All contributions are appreciated, whether big or small. Juli 2011 ebenda) war ein britischer Adeliger und der älteste Sohn von Henry Lascelles, 6. George was at Eton college when he was called upon to be a page at the subsequent coronation. Privileged status gave him an entree to the world he sought to work in, but somehow he managed to combine being a director of the Royal Opera House with doing a kind of rapid apprenticeship as an administrative assistant who was soon heavily involved in casting.Harewood was, as he admitted in his autobiography The Tongs and the Bones (1981), a fundamentally shy man. In a sense he saw the performing arts as a form of mediation very little different from that of constitutional monarchy, on whose periphery he was raised. He is a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II, a great-grandson of King George V and is 60th in line to the British throne.From his birth in 1950 until he succeeded his father in July 2011, he was known by the courtesy title Viscount Lascelles.
David Henry George Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood (born 21 October 1950), is a British hereditary peer and film and television producer. Just before Christmas 1961, he became president of Leeds United, the team he had supported as a boy. Details will be announced shortly.In lieu of flowers, Lady Harewood would ask that donations are given to the 1923 7 February – birth of George, first son of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles (married 28 February 1922). The peer's patronage of the arts was not just decorative or social, but positively enabling. He is survived by Patricia and his four sons.• George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, opera administrator, festival director and writer, born 7 February 1923; died 11 July 2011Grandson of George V whose work with English National Opera helped transform British attitudesLord Harewood served with the Grenadier Guards during the second world war, ending up in Colditz. At the time of his death, he was 46th in the line of succession to the British throne.