Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre

Rachel Leila Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre (née Brand, 24 October 1929) is a British peeress, daughter of Thomas Brand, 4th Viscount Hampden & 26th Baron Dacre and Leila Emily Seely, a granddaughter of Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet, and a great-great granddaughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford.

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.

On 26 July 1951, she married the Hon. William Douglas-Home, son of the 13th Earl of Home, and younger brother of the future Prime Minister and 14th Earl of Home, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

They had four children:

In 1970, the abeyance of her father's barony of Dacre was terminated in her favour.

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Peerage of England
Preceded by
Thomas Brand
(abeyant in 1965)
Baroness Dacre
(abeyance terminated)

1970–Present
Succeeded by
Current Incumbent