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Hace 1 día · 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
8 de may. de 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.
Hace 2 días · 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.
Hace 2 días · With the King and Queen during their visit were Mr. and Mrs. Churchill and also Sir Alan Lascelles, the King’s Private Secretary. The King and Queen were both tremendously interested in everything they saw and both told me how much they had enjoyed it.
6 de may. de 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 de may. de 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.
Hace 5 días · In the late Queen's early reign, this role was filled by the legendary Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, portrayed as a curmudgeonly enforcer in Netflix's The Crown, and known as 'the snake who saved the ...
