Leeds United owner leads tributes to Dowager Countess Lady Harewood, honorary patron of LUFC

By The Newsroom
Published 6th May 2018, 20:03 BST
Updated 9th May 2018, 10:11 BST
Lady Harewood, Countess Dowager of Harewood, has died. Here she is pictured with Leeds United's Andrea RadrizzaniLady Harewood, Countess Dowager of Harewood, has died. Here she is pictured with Leeds United's Andrea Radrizzani
Lady Harewood, Countess Dowager of Harewood, has died. Here she is pictured with Leeds United's Andrea Radrizzani
TRIBUTES have been paid to the Dowager Countess of Harewood, Patricia Lascelles, who has died at the age of 91.

Lady Harewood, the widow of the 7th Earl of Harewood, George Lascelles, died on Friday at Harewood House after a long illness. The Australian-born former violinist and fashion model had lived at the grand estate near Leeds for half a century and had introduced its popular bird garden.

In a statement, her stepson, the Earl of Harewood, David Lascelles, said: “I am very sad to announce the death of my stepmother Patricia, who died peacefully after a long illness on 4th May, 2018.

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“She was at her home, Harewood House, where she had lived during her long marriage to my father and where, since his death in 2011, she has continued to live, in a house that they both loved. My thoughts are especially with her sons Michael Shmith and Mark Lascelles, with her brother Barry Tuckwell and with her wider family both here in the UK and in Australia, where she was born and lived the first part of her life.”

Lady Harewood was a long-time suppo