Harold Macmillan
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Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, w
Official portrait, 1959
Macmillan in 1959
Macmillan in 1942
Macmillan (top row, left) with Allied military leaders in the Sicilian campaign, 1943; Maj-Gen Bedell Smith to his left. Front row: General Eisenhower (then Supreme Commander, Mediterranean), Air Chief Marshal Tedder, General Alexander, Admiral Cunningham
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
Harold Macmillan
…Profumo scandal. Ben Pimlott later described this as the "biggest political misjudgement of her reign". Macmillan was succeeded by Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home in a controversial move; it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed "The Magic Circle", who had…
Portrait, c. 1963
Douglas-Home in 1963
As a member of the Eton XI, 1921
The Hirsel, the Douglas-Home family's principal residence