Lady Home effigy, Mausoleum of the Black Douglases
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Image: © kim traynor Taken: 24 Mar 2015
The 7th Countess of Home was the grandmother of Sir Alec Douglas-Home who replaced Sir Harold Macmillan as Britain's prime minister in 1963. Her marble effigy dates from the 1870s.