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.
Peerage of England | ||
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Preceded by Thomas Brand (abeyant in 1965) |
Baroness Dacre (abeyance terminated) 1970–Present |
Succeeded by Current Incumbent |