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Trinity College, Cambridge. Major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, GCB, GCVO, MC, PC (17 May 1894 – 29 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War .
- 17 May 1894
- Sir Alan Lascelles
18 nov 2006 · From July 1943, when he replaced Alec Hardinge as principal private secretary, he controlled access to the King and therefore established a close relationship with all the grandees who visited...
ROYAL INVESTIGATION. George VI wanted private secretary Alec Hardinge to go. Valentine Low. Friday September 15 2017, 5.00pm, The Times. Alec Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, was...
- Former Writer, The Times
29 mar 2021 · Edward VIII, Baldwin and Hardinge. Alexander ‘Alec’ Hardinge entered royal service as an assistant to Stamfordham in 1920. 38 In 1936 he became PPS to Edward VIII when other candidates for the position refused it. 39 The facts of the abdication crisis are well known.
- Iain Mclean, Scot Peterson
- 2021
Alan Lascelles. 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.
16 nov 2021 · Even the King’s own private secretary, Alec Hardinge, could not be quiet anymore, and he wrote a letter that he intended to send to the King, informing him that the relationship with Wallis would lead to a confrontation with the government. The King read Hardinge’s letter and felt utterly betrayed.
24 feb 2021 · Most useful of all was a private memoir of Alec Hardinge, Edward’s private secretary. Over the course of their association, Hardinge came to believe that the King was dangerously unstable; his revelatory memoir, and other documents, formed the basis of my book.
