Alan Lascelles

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Alan Lascelles


Born
in Sutton Waldron, Dorset, England
April 11, 1887

Died
August 10, 1981

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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 Queen Elizabeth II. He wrote the Lascelles Principles in a 1950 letter to the editor of The Times, using the pen-name "Senex". ...more

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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

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“Carting potatoes, of which we have a fine crop, I was continually struck by the resemblance which the average large potato bears to General de Gaulle, though the potato is, of course, the more malleable of the two.”
Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

“… other people’s troubles don’t make one’s own any easier …”
Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles

“I don’t see how history can arrive at the truth if contemporaries are not allowed to write it.”
Alan Lascelles, King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles