Gerald Lascelles

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Gerald David Lascelles (21 August 1924–27 February 1998) was the younger son of the 6th Earl of Harewood and Princess Mary, The Princess Royal, the only daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary. He was the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. He was styled The Honourable Gerald Lascelles.

Lascelles was born at Goldsborough Hall, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire and was baptised with The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of York as his godparents. After Edward VIII abdicated, he became 8th in the line of succession.

On 15 July 1952, he married Angela Estree Dowding (born 20 April 1919) at St. Margaret's, Westminster. They had one son, Henry Ulick Lascelles, born in 1953. They were divorced in 1978.

On November 17, 1978, Lascelles married his second wife, Elizabeth Evelyn Collingwood (23 April 1924–14 January 2006) in Vienna, Austria. They had one son, Martin David, born out of wedlock on 9 February 1962.

He was the president of the British Racing Drivers' Club from 1964 to 1991 after the 5th Earl Howe died. Lord Howe had asked Lascelles to replace him. He was briefly a driver before this. He died in Bergerac, France in 1998.