Monarch Elizabeth II Succeeded by Mary Wilson Spouse(s) Alec Douglas-Home | Preceded by Lady Dorothy Macmillan Nationality British Name Elizabeth Baroness | |
Born 6 November 1909 ( 1909-11-06 ) Died 13 September 1990(1990-09-13) (aged 80) | ||
Elizabeth Hester Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel (née Alington; 6 November 1909 – 3 September 1990) was the wife of Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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She was born in 1909, the third daughter of Cyril Alington, the headmaster of Eton College and chaplain to George V, and his wife, Hon. Hester Margaret Lyttelton (CBE), daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. Lady Home was the first woman to become a fellow (governor) of Eton. She married Alec Douglas-Home in 1936. Thanks to her husband acquiring and renouncing various titles she had, according to The Guinness Book of Records (1974–90), more names successively in her lifetime than any other once-married only British woman.
Death
She died in September 1990 at the age of 80. Her husband outlived her by just over five years. They had been married for 54 years.