GEORGE (7TH EARL OF HAREWOOD) LASCELLES - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 01/02/1970 CO-SIGNED BY: PATRICIA (COUNTESS OF HAREWOOD) LASCELLES - HFSID 80085

GEORGE LASCELLES, 7 EARL OF HAREWOOD and PATRICIA LASCELLES, COUNTESS OF HAREWOOD
The seventh Earl of Harewood, first son of Great Britain's Princess Royal Mary, signed this sheet of stationery from his ancestral home Harewood House "With best wishes" with his wife in 1970.
Autograph sentiment signed "With best wishes/Harewood/Jan. 2nd. 1970" in blue ink and "Patricia Harewood" in black ink. 4x5 stationery from Harewood House, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Great Britain with scalloped top edge. Mounted to a 4¼x5 sheet of paper. Harewood House was built between 1759 and 1771 by Edwin Lascelles. It's still owned by the Lascelles family. GEORGE LASCELLES, born at Harewood House in 1923, was the first child of Great Britain's Princess Royal Mary, herself the daughter of King George V. He was made seventh Earl of Harewood in 1947, after the death of his father, the sixth earl. Lascelles fought in Italy during World War II and was a German prisoner of war from 1944 until May 1945. An opera enthusiast, he served as director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Gardens twice (1951-3 and 1969-1972) and chairman of the English National Opera from 1986 to 1995. Lascelles was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1986. PATRICIA LASCELLES, born Patricia Elizabeth Tuckwell in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1926, is the second wife of George Henry Hubert Lascelles. Lightly toned. Mounting paper is lightly rippled on verso (no show through). Edges jagged and irregular. Sentiment was folded once horizontally and vertically and unfolded. Otherwise, fine condition.