The Hon Felicity Betty Douglas-Home, who died 3 December, 2025, aged 96, was the third wife, and widow of Major the Hon Henry Montagu Douglas-Home, MBE (1907-1980).
She was born 24 July 1929, the former Felicity Betty Jonsson, daughter of Major Aubrey Thomas Jonsson (1877-1941), of Natal, South Africa, by his wife the former Elizabeth Noel Crofts, and married firstly, 28 July, 1948 (div. 1962), the Hon Victor Patrick Hamilton Wills (1926-2011), third son of the 1st Baron Dulverton, OBE (1880-1956), and his wife the former Victoria Mary Chichester (1887-1968), scion of the Chichester baronets; she married 2ndly, 16 February, 1966, as his third wife, Maj the Hon Henry Douglas-Home (born 21 Nov 1907), second son of the 13th Earl of Home, KT (1873-1951), and his wife the former Lady Lilian Lambton (1881-1966), daughter of the 4th Earl of Durham (1855-1929).
Her second husband's first wife was Lady Margaret Alexandra Elizabeth Spencer (1906-1996), a great-aunt of Diana Princess of Wales. Henry Douglas-Home was brother of the Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (aka the 14th Earl of Home (disclaimed), later Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC) .
Her 2nd husband died 19 July, 1980.
She leaves issue by both marriages, a son and a daughter from her first marriage, Christopher Wills (born 21 Feb 1953), and Penelope Wills (born 14 Jan, 1950), and a son from her second marriage, Peregrine Douglas-Home (born 28 July, 1967). She was predeceased by a son from her first marriage, Jeremy Wills (1955-2015).
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