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8. Mai 2024 · End of an Era: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1887-1920 and King’s Counsellor (Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles) by Sir Alan Lascelles (Edited by Duff Hart-Davis) – GentleRain Book Review – Cannonball Read 16. “…his own losses were irreplaceable:” The Life and Times of a Private Secretary to Royalty.
Vor 5 Tagen · So nervous is the King that he asks his Private Secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles, to follow up his appeals with a late-night telephone call to Churchill’s train carriage. Winston finally and grudgingly defers to the Sovereign’s wishes. He admits to Lascelles that “if that poor ship should go to the bottom, you will all say, ‘I told you so
27. Apr. 2024 · The Princess then told her sister and mother, while Townsend informed the Queen’s secretary, Sir Alan Lascelles. “You must be either mad or bad,” said Lascelles in disbelief. The Queen was sympathetic but, as head of the Church of England, Lascelles said she could not consent to Margaret marrying a divorced man. However, if the ...
2. Mai 2024 · Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (/ˈlæsəls/ LASS-əlss; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) 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 George VI and Elizabeth II.
6. Mai 2024 · Alan Lascelles, King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006). John Martin, Downing Street: The War Years. (London: Bloomsbury, 1991). Lord Moran, Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran, The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
2. Mai 2024 · Nor is it any reassurance that Alan Lascelles, who was George VI’s private secretary, could not fault the draft chapters: ‘I would take [each instalment] home, armed with my sharpest blue-pencil, keenly looking forward to using it’. Alas, Lascelles said, his blue pencil ‘nearly always remained unblunted … such emendations as I have had to suggest were almost invariably the correction ...
5. Mai 2024 · Sir Alan Frederick “Tommy” Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC (/ˈlæsəls/; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) 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 Queen Elizabeth II.
