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Hace 2 días · Sir Alec Douglas-Home was an aristocrat who had given up his peerage to sit in the House of Commons and become prime minister upon Macmillan's resignation. To Wilson's comment that he was out of touch with ordinary people since he was the 14th Earl of Home , Home retorted, "I suppose Mr. Wilson is the fourteenth Mr. Wilson".
Hace 4 días · Foreign Secretary: Sir Alec Douglas-Home; Home Secretary: Reginald Maudling; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: James Prior; Secretary of State for Defence: The Lord Carrington; Secretary of State for Education and Science: Margaret Thatcher; Secretary of State for Employment: Robert Carr; Minister of Housing and Local ...
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Hace 2 días · Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-1964. Douglas-Home, who was a family friend of the queen's mother, served for just under a year. Harold Wilson, 1964-1970, then 1974-76. Wilson, the first Labour prime minister during the queen's reign, reportedly enjoyed a relaxed relationship with Elizabeth. Edward Heath, 1970-1974.
Hace 4 días · Sir Alec Douglas-Home had succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party in October 1963. Macmillan’s government had been badly rocked by the sensational political sex scandal involving the Secretary of State for War John Profumo.
Hace 2 días · Chamberlain had few friends among his parliamentary colleagues; an attempt by his parliamentary private secretary, Lord Dunglass (later prime minister himself as Alec Douglas-Home), to bring him to the Commons Smoking Room to socialise with colleagues ended in embarrassing silence.
Hace 4 días · It came after 13 years of Tory rule, and the Tories had lost their charismatic leader, Harold Macmillan, to be replaced by Alec Douglas Home who did not have quite the same appeal. The Government was exhausted and beset by scandals, the most well-known one being John Profumo and Christine Keeler.
Hace 5 días · Soon after its completion the house was let to Lord Dunglass, and his eldest son, the future Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, was born in it on 2 July 1903. (fn. 69) Sir Cuthbert Quilter may later have lived here for some years.
