Everything about Gerald Lascelles totally explained
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 in
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.
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