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Alec’s, widow, Helen, The Dowager Lady Hardinge of Penshurst (1901-1979) continued her husband’s work of restoration and preservation. She recalled that when she and her husband first met the demolition contractor, Mr Funnell, they were horrified to be told by him that he would dearly like to get his hands on Hampton Court to demolish it!
Le major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2e baron Hardinge de Penshurst, GCB , GCVO , MC , PC est secrétaire privé du souverain pendant la crise d'abdication d'Édouard VIII et pendant la majeure partie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Hardinge was born in 1894, the son of The Hon. Charles Hardinge (who was created Baron Hardinge of Penshurst in 1910 and served as Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916). He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and fought in the First World War, alongside his brother, rising to the rank of Lieutenant and winning the Military Cross.
Major Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2. Baron Hardinge von Penshurst , GCB , GCVO , MC , PC (17. Mai 1894 - 29. Mai 1960) war Privatsekretär der Soverei gn während der Abdankungskrise von Edward VIII und während des größten Teils des Zweiten Weltkriegs .
3 de jul. de 2019 · Sir Alec Hardinge, then the King’s Private Secretary, described Halifax as “always the court favourite,” noting, “It took me a long time to get the King and Queen to look on the new Prime Minister with favour, but in the end the King at any rate made great friends with him.” 3
24 de fev. de 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.
