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17 de dic. de 2006 · Sir Alan Lascelles, known to the Establishment as Tommy, was born in the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and died aged 94 a few days after watching a firework display to mark the wedding ...
Tommy Lascelles's diaries begin with Edward VIII's abdication and end with George VI's death and his daughter Elizabeth's Coronation. In between we see George VI at work and play, a portrait more intimate than any other previously published. The early part about Edward VIII is a damning profile; the bulk of the book is World War II as seen from a key courtier--Lascelles is first assistant and ...
In Royal Service: The Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1920-1936, Volume II, Sir Alan Lascelles Volume 1 of In Royal Service: The Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles, Sir Alan Lascelles: Author: Sir Alan Lascelles: Editor: Duff Hart-Davis: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Hamilton, 1989: ISBN: 0241125626, 9780241125625: Length:
Lascelles writes revealingly, first-hand, about events like the Titanic and the first use of poison gas during the war. The WWI section was the best, though it makes for undeniably grim reading with his own frontline service and the loss of so many of his close friends.
Alan Frederick Lascelles, known as "Tommy", was born on 11 April 1887, the son of Commander Frederick Canning Lascelles and Frederica Maria. He was educated at Hazelhurst preparatory school, Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. During the First World War, Lascelles served in France with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry (1914-18).
18 de nov. de 2006 · He was visited only by his children and grandchildren and one or two very old friends, complained Tommy Lascelles a few years before he died; apart from that, ‘I only see some of the young ...
