A YORKSHIRE PRINCESS

In 2012 Colin Dickson introduced a new rose, Yorkshire Princess, is memory of H.R.H. Princess Mary of Harewood, who was known as the Yorkshire Princess following her marriage to Henry Lascellas.

The rose being a lovely patio rose with white flowers that Colin had bred by crossing Nice n Easy, a shrub rose with buff apricot flowers that was bred by Colin Horner, with Regensburg, a white flowered floribunda by L. Pernille Oleson. Growing to about 60cm by 60, Colin's rose was named the best miniature/patio rose at the 2011 Belfast Rose Trials.

Princess Mary was born at Sandringham in Norfolk on April 25th, 1897 and was the only daughter of King George V. She was also the sister of King Edward VIII and King George VI, and in 1922 married Henry Lascellas, who in 1929 became the 6th Earl of Harewood.

Amongst the roles many she played in public life was being the Honorary President of the British Girl Guide Association from 1920 until her death, the Commandant-in-Chief of the British Red Cross Detachments and the Controller Commandant of the Auxilary Territoral Services during the Second World War. She later in 1953, following the death of her mother, became the Royal Patron of the National Rose Society.

Widowed in 1947, at which time she became known as the Princess Royal, she was to die in Harewood House in Yorkshire on March 28th, 1965.