Harewood is one of England’s finest country houses, set in the heart of Yorkshire amid a magnificent landscape of sweeping hills and a serpentine lake created by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Built in the 18th century, no expense was spared when Edwin Lascelles, a wealthy plantation owner, began building Harewood House in 1759. The building took 11 years to complete, and was built, decorated and furnished by the finest craftsmen in England, from York-born architect John Carr to fashionable Neoclassical interior designer Robert Adam, and England’s greatest furniture maker Thomas Chippendale.
Over the next 250 years, the Lascelles family, later Earls of Harewood, assembled and filled the house with spectacular art and furnishings. The 6th Earl married Princess Mary (daughter of King George V and Queen Mary) in 1922 and moved into Harewood in
