Viscount Lascelles
Born
Alexander Edgar Lascelles

(1980-05-13) 13 May 1980
OccupationChef
Spouse
Annika Elizabeth Reed
(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.

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.

As he is in the line of succession to the throne, under the Royal Marriages Act 1772, until 2015 Lascelles needed royal permission to marry.

Ancestry

The following table shows five generations.[2][3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 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. Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), page 173
  3. Burke's Peerage, volume 2, 2003, p. 1784


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