In 1909 Nicolson joined HM Diplomatic Service. He served as attaché at Madrid from February to September 1911, and then Third Secretary at Constantinople from January 1912 to October 1914. During the First World War, he served at the Foreign Office in London, during which time he was promoted Second Secretary. As the Foreign Office's most junior employee at this rank, it fell to him in August 1914 to hand Britain's revised declaration of war to the German ambassador in London. He served in a junior capacity in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, for which he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours.
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill."
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
"Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff"
"Considering that his hair is like that of a gollywog and his clothes noticeable the other end of Trafalgar Square, this is an odd assertion."
"When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a"
"The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
"She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends."
A Personal Memoir by John Gore was published in 1941, followed by Sir Harold Nicolson's George V in 1952. Sir Harold touched on the difficulties faced by authorised royal biographers in his diaries, ...
'A tiny little white table for us four was set on the huge lawn,' recalled one visitor ... I thought he was staging a production of some sort.' ... He wore a kilt ... According to the Conservative politician Harold Nicolson, he was 'very distressed at the news'.
But nowadays sheer necessity is part of it ... She quotes Harold Nicolson, as early as March 1950, hearing from Paddy Leigh Fermor that the King, at an investiture, had to be ‘heavily made up with sun tan and rouge’ to conceal the pallor of the invalid ... .
The swelling mass of manufactured outrage unleashed by the Israeli foreign minister’s tweet was something to behold ...Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images ... There are no limits to human misunderstanding, wrote the historian and diplomat Harold Nicolson ... .
what exactly was the 'zig zag' technique? ...Napoleon's wife Josephine ... 'I have woken up full of you ... She replied ... Her long marriage to politician Harold Nicolson was defined by the fact that he took many of his own lovers - most of them of the same sex ... .
As headlines speak of war and carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, this column turns, unavoidably, to the vocabulary of war ... A British official, Harold Nicolson, invented “chatter-bug” for civilians who spread information or rumours ... [email protected] .
Masterchef. The Professionals. Rating.Ukraine's Stolen Children. Rating. ... Diplomat and wartime MP Harold Nicolson had a different idea ... A chap who has worked up a vigorous appetite will have no truck with cordon bleu, Harold believed ... or the French ... .
Masterchef. The Professionals. Rating.Ukraine's Stolen Children. Rating. ... Diplomat and wartime MP Harold Nicolson had a different idea ... A chap who has worked up a vigorous appetite will have no truck with cordon bleu, Harold believed ... or the French ... .
A floral and leafy chain of spaces designed and planted over thirty years by the writers and intellectuals Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson ... In 1925 Harold accepted a diplomatic posting to Iran (then usually called Persia in English).
The chosen candidate is expected to be given access to a range of private papers, letters and journals ... Mr Lacey told The Telegraph ... He added ... A Personal Memoir by John Gore was published in 1941, followed by Sir Harold Nicolson's George V in 1952 ... .
... of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, now part of Hachette ... With an investment from Nigel Nicolson, the son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, the firm was rebranded Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1949.
George V may have been, as the witheringly frank diarist Harold Nicolson had it, the epitome of dullness — “a stupid old bore” who “did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps” — but he had one great consolation ...Related articles ... .
