Elizabeth Douglas-Home
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Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (Template:Nee; 6 November 1909 – 3 September 1990) was the wife of British politician and prime minister Alec Douglas-Home.
Biography
She was born Elizabeth Hester Alington,Template:Sfn the second daughter of the Very Rev Cyril AlingtonTemplate:Sfn—headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College successively, as well as chaplain to King George VTemplate:Sfn—and his wife, Hester Margaret Lyttelton, daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton.Template:Sfn Elizabeth was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
She married Alec Douglas-Home on 3 October 1936.Template:Sfn Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles, she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records, more names successively in her lifetime than any other once-married, British-only woman.Template:SfnScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
The couple had four children:
- Lady (Lavinia) Caroline Douglas-Home DL (b. 11 Oct 1937), who served as a Lady-in-Waiting to various members of the Royal Family
- Lady Meriel Kathleen Douglas-Home (b. 27 Nov 1939), m. Adrian Darby, Bursar of Keble College, Oxford
- Lady Diana Lucy Douglas-Home (18 Dec 1940 - 22 August 2024), m. James Wolfe Murray
- David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home (20 Nov 1943–22 Aug 2022).
She died on 3 September 1990 at the age of 80.[1] Her husband outlived her by just over five years.Template:Sfn They had been married for nearly 54 years.
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