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Major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, GCB, GCVO, MC, PC (17 May 1894 – 29 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War.
18. Nov. 2006 · From July 1943, when he replaced Alec Hardinge as principal private secretary, he controlled access to the King and therefore established a close relationship with all the grandees who visited...
When George VI came to the throne after the abdication he inherited Edward VIII’s private secretary, Alec Hardinge. At first they got on and Hardinge boosted George’s self-confidence.
- Former Writer, The Times
29. März 2021 · Alexander ‘Alec’ Hardinge entered royal service as an assistant to Stamfordham in 1920. 38 In 1936 he became PPS to Edward VIII when other candidates for the position refused it. 39 The facts of the abdication crisis are well known. Edward met Wallis Simpson when she was married to her second husband, Ernest, in 1931, and ...
- Iain Mclean, Scot Peterson
- 2021
16. Jan. 2014 · On March 28, 1936, the King, with his private secretary, Alec Hardinge, and Mrs. Hardinge, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, and three other guests, had been looking at portraits in Windsor Castle. He expressed great interest in George IV.
3. Juli 2019 · Sir Alec Hardinge, then the King’s Private Secretary, described Halifax as “always the court favourite,” noting, “It took me a long time to get the King and Queen to look on the new Prime Minister with favour, but in the end the King at any rate made great friends with him.” 3
Major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, (17 May 189429 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War.
