ROYAL BEREAVEMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26470, 26 May 1947, Page 5

ROYAL BEREAVEMENT

Ear! of Harewood’s Death

HUSBAND OF PRINCESS MARY Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, May 24. The death has occurred of the Earl of Harewood. Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal, and members of the family were with the Earl at his death. The news was immediately sent to their Majesties at Royal Lodge, Windsor, where they are spending Whitsun holiday week-end. The death occurred at 11.25 GMT yesterday but was not announced till 8.30 a.m. GMT to-day. There will be no court mourning, but the Royal Family will observe private mourning. A private funeral will be held at All Saints’ on Tuesday and memorial services will be held at York, .tylinster, and St. Mark’s, North Audley street, London, on Thursday.

Reuter’s Court correspondent understands that the arrangements for the luncheon at Buckingham Palace on Monday to celebrate Queen Mary's eightieth birthday will not be affected, and also that the first presentation

were at Buckingham Palace to welcome home the Royal Family from their South African tour. George Henry Hubert, now Viscount Lascelles, who succeeds to the title, was a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and was wounded and captured in Italy in June, 1944. He was Counsellor of State with his mother and the Duke of Gloucester during the King’s visit to South Africa. Viscount Lascelles is an under-graduate of Cambridge University and went into residence at King’s College as a freshman last January.

Henry George Charles Lascelles was the sixth Earl of Harewood. succeeding his father in 1929. He married Princess Mary in 1922, and was personal ADC to the King since 1936. Born on September 9, 1882, the eldest son of the fifth Earl and Lady Florence Bridgeman, the Earl of Harewoou received his education at Eton and Sandhurst. His earlier military commissions were held with the Grenadier Guards and Yorkshire Hussars. He was Honorary Attache in Rome, 1905-7, and A D.C. to the Governor-General of Canada from 1907-11. After his return to England he contested the Keighley division of the Yorkshire electorate as a Unionist. He served in the Grea. War in which he was three times wounded. He was awarded the D.S.O. and Bar. and the French Croix tie ■At the time of his death, the Earl of Harewood was the royal trustee of tnc British Museum, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, and Chancellor of Sheffield University.

party, which this year ranks as a substitute for the courts, will take place on Wednesday as arranged. The Earl of Harewood had been in failing health for some time and went recently to Harewood House, near Leeds. Neither he nor the Princess Royal, because of the Earl’s ill-health,