Alec Douglas-Home
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Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of
Portrait, c. 1963
Douglas-Home in 1963
As a member of the Eton XI, 1921
The Hirsel, the Douglas-Home family's principal residence
Harold Wilson
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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Oppo
Alec Douglas-Home
…aristocrat, out of touch with the problems of ordinary families, and he came over stiffly in television interviews, by contrast with the Labour leader, Harold Wilson. The Conservative Party, in power since 1951, had lost standing as a result of the Profumo affair, a 1963 sex scandal involving a defence minister, and…
Wilson in 1975
Garter banner of Harold Wilson in the chapel at Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied PPE
Wilson in 1962
Wilson with US President John F. Kennedy in April 1963