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- 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.
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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.
This man was Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, former Private Secretary to George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, and the Assistant Private Secretary to Edward VIII when he was Prince of Wales. He had lived, grace-and-favour, at the Old Stables at Kensington Palace (he thought it was one of the nicest houses in England) since he retired in 1953.
- Henry Oliver
Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles GCB GCVO CMG MC (/ˈlæsəls/; 11 April 1887 – 10 August 1981) was a British courtier and civil servant, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II.
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.
May 16, 2007 · During lunch with King George VI, the British PM revealed he planned to watch the Normandy invasion from the deck of the Royal Navy flagship. The king, too, became fired with the Horatio Nelson spirit, an alarming development for his private secretary, Alan "Tommy" Lascelles.
Jul 6, 2022 · Sir Alan Lascelles, usually called Tommy, had been the King’s Private Secretary for most of his reign. As April came to an end, he wrote to The Times under the pseudonym ”Senex”, Latin...
As private secretary to four successive British monarchs from King George V to the present Queen, Sir Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles (1887-1981) witnessed life behind palace doors at the closest of quarters.
