Viscount Lascelles
Born
Alexander Edgar Lascelles

(1980-05-13) 13 May 1980 (age 43)
Bath, Somerset, England
OccupationChef
Spouse
Annika Elizabeth Reed
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(m. 2017)​
Children3
Parents

Alexander Edgar Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (born 13 May 1980) is an English chef, and the third child and second son of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, and his first wife Margaret, Viscountess Lascelles.[1] He is heir apparent to the earldom of Harewood, due to his elder brother having been born before their parents' marriage. He is a great-great-grandson of George V and second cousin once removed to Charles III

A chef, Lascelles has also taught about food at the John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge.[2]

Personal life

Lascelles' first child, Leo Cyrus Anthony, was born out of wedlock (by former girlfriend Laleh Yeganegy)[1] and is unable to succeed to his grandfather's earldom. On 18 August 2017 at Kew Gardens, Alexander Lascelles married Annika Elizabeth Reed (b. 1984). They have a daughter, Ivy, born in 2018 and a son, Kit Moon William, born 2023.

Ancestry

The following table shows five generations.[3][4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Walker, Tim (16 May 2014). "Viscount Lascelles, 53rd in line to the the throne, takes a job in the kitchen". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  2. ^ Skipp, Paul (28 January 2022). "John Of Gaunt School Newsletter". Archived from the original on 30 January 2024. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  3. ^ Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 173
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, p. 1784
British royalty Preceded byThe Earl of Harewood Line of succession to the British throne descended from Mary, daughter of George V Succeeded byThe Hon. Ivy Lascelles


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