Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood

Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, KG GCVO DSO TD (9 September 1882 – 23 May 1947), styled The Honourable Henry Lascelles before 1892 and Viscount Lascelles between 1892 and 1929, was a British soldier, a Yorkshireman and a landowner.

Background
Lascelles was the son of Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood and Lady Florence Bridgeman.

Military career
Lascelles was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and commanded the 3rd Battalion in the First World War.

Marriage and family
Lord Harewood married Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, at Westminster Abbey, on 28 February 1922. The best man was Sir Victor Audley Falconer Mackenzie, 3rd Bt.

The bride's attendants were:
 * Lady Diana Bridgeman, daughter of the 5th Earl of Bradford.
 * Lady May Cambridge, daughter of the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice of Albany.
 * Lady Mary Thynne, daughter of the 5th Marquess of Bath.
 * Lady Mary Cambridge, daughter of the Marquess of Cambridge.
 * Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Mother.
 * Princess Maud, daughter of Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife.
 * Lady Rachel Cavendish, daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.
 * Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the 8th Duke of Richmond and Gordon.

After their marriage, Lord and Lady Harewood had two homes, Chesterfield House (destroyed after the 2nd World War) in London and Goldsborough Hall, North Yorkshire that became their family homes throughout the 1920s. They had two children:


 * George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (born at Chesterfield House 7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011) and christened at St Mary's Church Goldsborough 25 March 1923
 * The Hon. Gerald David Lascelles (born at Goldsborough Hall 21 August 1924 – 27 February 1998)

Lord Harewood was a Freemason and, from 1942-1947 he served as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England. He died at the age of 64 at his home, Harewood House.

Legacy
Harry Gray named his then new 1921 Burrell 8 N.H.P. Scenic Showman's Engine 'Lord Lascelles' after him, an engine that still exists and is regularly rallied.

It is also widely established that Virginia Woolf based the character of Archduke Henry on him in her novel Orlando, a tribute to her lover Vita Sackville-West. Henry Lascelles was one of West's suitors.

The Earl is the great granduncle of the 2nd in line to the British throne - Prince William, the Prince's father Charles being the Heir apparent.

Styles from birth to death



 * 1882 – 1892: The Hon. Henry Lascelles
 * 1892 – 1929: Viscount Lascelles
 * 1929 – 1947: The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Harewood