Gerald Lascelles

Gerald David Lascelles (21 August 1924–27 February 1998) was the younger son of the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary. He was the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was styled The Honourable Gerald Lascelles. He and his first cousin, The Princess Margaret shared the same birthday.

Lascelles was born at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire and was baptised with The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of York as his godparents. After Edward VIII abdicated, he became 8th in the line of succession.

On 15 July 1952, he married Angela Estree Lyssod D'Arcy Dowding (20 April 1919-28 February, 2007) at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They had one son, Henry Ulick Lascelles, born on May 19, 1953. They were divorced in 1978.

On November 17, 1978, Lascelles married his second wife, Elizabeth Evelyn Collingwood (23 April 1924–14 January 2006) in Vienna, Austria. They had one son, Martin David, born out of wedlock on 9 February 1962.

He was the president of the British Racing Drivers' Club from 1964 to 1991 after the 5th Earl Howe died. Lord Howe had asked Lascelles to replace him. He was briefly a driver before this. He died in Bergerac, France in 1998.

At his death he was the second grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary to die, since the death in 1972, of his cousin Prince William of Gloucester.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Gerald Lascelles
2= 2. Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
3= 3. Mary, Princess Royal
4= 4. Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood
5= 5. Florence Bridgeman
6= 6. George V of the United Kingdom
7= 7. Mary of Teck
8= 8. Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood
9= 9. Elizabeth de Burgh
10= 10. Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford
11= 11. Selina Weld-Forester
12= 12. Edward VII of the United Kingdom
13= 13. Alexandra of Denmark
14= 14. Francis, Duke of Teck
15= 15. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
16= 16. Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood
17= 17. Louisa Thynne
18= 18. Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
19= 19. Harriet Canning
20= 20. George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford
21= 21. Georgina Elizabeth Moncreiffe
22= 22. Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester
23= 23. Katherine Mary Manners
24= 24. Albert, Prince Consort
25= 25. Victoria of the United Kingdom
26= 26. Christian IX of Denmark
27= 27. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
28= 28. Duke Alexander of Württemberg
29= 29. Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde
30= 30. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
31= 31. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)