Lady Home; Wife of Former British Prime Minister
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Lady Home, 80, wife of former British prime minister Lord Home. The former Elizabeth Alington first met Alec Douglas-Home during World War I when he attended Eton, the prestigious boys’ boarding school where her father, the Very Rev. Cecil Alington, was headmaster. She married Home in 1936. The couple visited the White House during the Johnson Administration when Home was prime minister. She traveled with him during his long political career as a Conservative Party leader. On Monday in Castlemains, Scotland, after a stroke.
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