during the second world war, the house acted as a resident convalescent hospital but by the late 1940s, the princess royal and her family had moved permanently back to harewood, where the house and gardens were regularly opened to the public and regularly holding musical concerts connected with musical establishments including the yorkshire symphony orchestra and the leeds musical festival, the latter of which the princess was patron. her son, lord harewood, who was living at harewood, was both a member of the leeds music festival's executive committee and a patron of the yorkshire symphony orchestra's concerts.