David Lascelles
For much of his adult life David worked as a producer of both documentaries and drama for television and the cinema. Several have been nominated for awards including Inspector Morse (BAFTA & RTS award winner), Wide-eyed and Legless, Moll Flanders and Richard III.
He lives at Harewood in Yorkshire, which has been his family’s home since the 18th century and for many years chaired Harewood House Trust, the educational charitable trust that looks after the House, gardens and collections for the public benefit. Following the death of his father in 2011, he became the 8th Earl of Harewood.
He is one of the founders of Heirs of Slavery, a campaign group that supports reconciliation and reparative justice to redress the horrors of the Transatlantic slave trade.
He has travelled widely in the Himalayas and in 2004 invited a group of monks from Bhutan to come to Harewood and build a stupa, a Buddhist monument. His first book, A Hare-Marked Moon (Unbound, 2021), describes the experience.
Out of Colditz (Profile) is his second book.