Figure 1.--Princes Mary's sons were the Honarable Gerard Lascelles and George Lascelles. Note the matching suits. This photograph was taken about 1930. I'm not sure if this is their school uniform, as there is no badge. They probably just begun wearing suits like these when they dressed up once they began school.

As older boys, probably after they began preparatory school at about 8 years of age, the boys began to wear different clothes. They wore short pants suits and kneesocks. In their prep school uniforms they look very much like the average British school boys of the day rather than fancily dressed young royals as they did as younger boys. They also wore kilts, but only for special occasions.

Suits

The boys wore single-breasted suits with sift collars and neckties. The suits had short pants and were worn with kneesoccks. The suits look like standard prep school uniforms at the time. Some of the kneesocs hd turn-over-tops with stripes (figure 4). I'm not sure if these were school socks.

Kilts

Like the other Windsors the boys were also dressed in kilt outfits for special dressy occasions. Both George and Gerald wore their kilt outfits with big Eton collars as teenagers for the '35 Jubilee and '37 Coronation. The boys wore very smart Scottish kilt outfits with velvet jackets and gleaming Eton collars for their grandfather George V's Jubilee in 1935. There are some studio portraits showing the brothers in these outfits on view at Harewood House in Yorkshire but I've not seen the pictures published anywhere. However, there is a glimpse of the outfits in photos of the Royals parading on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during the Jubilee celebrations.

Created: 7:30 PM 7/25/2008
Last updated: 7:30 PM 7/25/2008