Rachel Leila Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre (née

NEE

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 Brand, 24 October 1929) is a British peeress

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, daughter of Thomas Brand

Thomas Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden

Thomas Henry Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden CMG was a British and English peer, both Baron Dacre and Viscount Hampden....

, 4th Viscount Hampden

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 & 26th Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, heiress of a large estate in Cumbria centred on...

 and Leila Emily Seely, a granddaughter of Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet

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, and a great-great granddaughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford

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She is a great granddaughter of William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and through him a direct descendant of Charles II of England

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On 26 July 1951, she married the Hon. William Douglas-Home

William Douglas-Home

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, son of the 13th Earl of Home

Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home

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, and younger brother of the future Prime Minister

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 and 14th Earl of Home

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, Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...

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They had four children:

• Hon. James Thomas Archibald Douglas-Home (b. 16 May 1952), married Christine Stephenson and had one daughter.
• Sarah Douglas-Home (b. 4 July 1954), married Nicholas Dent.
• Gian Leila Douglas-Home (b. 23 June 1958)
• Hon. Dinah Douglas-Home (b. 1964), married Harry Marriott.

In 1970, the abeyance

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 of her father's barony of Dacre

Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, heiress of a large estate in Cumbria centred on...

was terminated in her favour.

Sources

• The Peerage database