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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Lady Dorothy Macmillan</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire">GBE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_(retouched_greyscale).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg/220px-Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg/330px-Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg/440px-Lady-Dorothy-Evelyn-Macmillan-ne-Cavendish_%28retouched_greyscale%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="3288" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Lady Dorothy in 1920</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1900-07-28</span>)</span>28 July 1900</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">21 May 1966<span style="display:none">(1966-05-21)</span> (aged 65)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Birch_Grove" title="Birch Grove">Birch Grove</a>, East Sussex, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Spouse_of_the_prime_minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom">Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom</a> (1957–1963)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output 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socialite and the third daughter of <a href="/wiki/Victor_Cavendish,_9th_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire">Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire</a>. She was the <a href="/wiki/Spouse_of_the_prime_minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom">spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom</a> between 1957 and 1963, as the wife of <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_life">Family life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She spent her first eight years at <a href="/wiki/Holker_Hall" title="Holker Hall">Holker Hall, Lancashire</a> (located in the county of <a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a> post-1974); and <a href="/wiki/Lismore_Castle" title="Lismore Castle">Lismore Castle, Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She became known as Lady Dorothy from the age of eight, when her father succeeded to the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Devonshire" title="Duke of Devonshire">dukedom of Devonshire</a>, and the family moved into <a href="/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth House, Derbyshire</a>, and the other ducal estates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953–54_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953–54-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received lessons in French, German, riding and golf. From the age of sixteen she lived with the family at <a href="/wiki/Rideau_Hall" title="Rideau Hall">Rideau Hall, Ottawa</a>, where her father served as <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General of Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200954_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200954-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage">Marriage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1920 she married publisher and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> politician <a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Harold Macmillan</a>, who had been on her father's staff in Canada. Their lavish wedding, on 21 April at <a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s,_Westminster" title="St Margaret's, Westminster">St Margaret's, Westminster</a>, was attended by royalty, aristocracy and leading literary figures, and was hailed as the social event of the <a href="/wiki/Season_(society)#The_Season_in_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Season (society)">London season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200958_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200958-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lady Dorothy was a dutiful political wife and the couple remained married and publicly together (despite her long-lasting affair with Conservative politician <a href="/wiki/Robert_Boothby,_Baron_Boothby" title="Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby">Robert Boothby</a>) until her death from a heart attack at the Macmillan family estate at <a href="/wiki/Birch_Grove" title="Birch Grove">Birch Grove</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Sussex" title="West Sussex">West Sussex</a>, in 1966. Her husband, who was created <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Stockton" title="Earl of Stockton">Earl of Stockton</a> in 1984, outlived her by 20 years. </p><p>She and Harold had four children: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Macmillan" title="Maurice Macmillan">Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden </a> (1921–1984), Conservative politician and publisher. Married <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Macmillan,_Viscountess_Macmillan_of_Ovenden" title="Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden">The Hon Katharine Ormsby-Gore</a>, daughter of the <a href="/wiki/Baron_Harlech" title="Baron Harlech">4th Baron Harlech</a>. His father outlived him by nearly three years.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Caroline_Faber" title="Lady Caroline Faber">Lady Caroline Macmillan</a> (1923–2016). Married <a href="/wiki/Julian_Faber" title="Julian Faber">Julian Faber</a>; five children.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lady_Catherine_Amery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lady Catherine Amery (page does not exist)">Lady Catherine Macmillan</a> (1926–1991). Married <a href="/wiki/Julian_Amery" title="Julian Amery">Julian Amery</a> (later Baron Amery of Lustleigh), Conservative politician; four children.</li> <li>Sarah Macmillan (1930–1970). Married Andrew Heath in 1953; two children. Having had an abortion in 1951, she was unable to have children of her own and the couple adopted two sons.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe2010_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe2010-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (July 2019)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She had an unhappy life, which was blighted by a drinking problem, and died aged only 40, her father outliving her by 16 years.</li></ul> <p>In 1929 Lady Dorothy began a lifelong affair with the Conservative politician <a href="/wiki/Robert_Boothby,_Baron_Boothby" title="Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby">Robert Boothby</a>, an arrangement that scandalised high society but remained unknown to the general public.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe20102467,_2477_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe20102467,_2477-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Philip Frere, a partner in Frere Cholmely solicitors, urged Macmillan not to divorce his wife, which at that time would have been fatal to a public career even for the "innocent party". Macmillan and Lady Dorothy lived largely separate lives in private thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe201095_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe201095-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The stress caused by this may have contributed to Macmillan's nervous breakdown in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParris1997[httpsarchiveorgdetailsgreatparliamenta0000parr_j7g3page98_98–104]_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParris1997[httpsarchiveorgdetailsgreatparliamenta0000parr_j7g3page98_98–104]-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was often treated with condescension by his aristocratic in-laws and was observed to be a sad and isolated figure at <a href="/wiki/Chatsworth_House" title="Chatsworth House">Chatsworth</a> in the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorne198867_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorne198867-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Campbell suggests that Macmillan's humiliation was first a major cause of his odd and rebellious behaviour in the 1930s then, in subsequent decades, made him a harder and more ruthless politician than his rivals Eden and Butler.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2010248_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2010248-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams2009">Williams 2009</a>, p. 53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953–54-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200953–54_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams2009">Williams 2009</a>, pp. 53–54.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200954-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200954_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams2009">Williams 2009</a>, p. 54.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilliams200958-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilliams200958_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilliams2009">Williams 2009</a>, p. 58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe2010-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe2010_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThorpe2010">Thorpe 2010</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFForbes1991" class="citation magazine cs1">Forbes, Alastair (21 September 1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/21st-september-1991/29/a-real-book">"A real book"</a>. <i>The Spectator</i>. p. 29<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 December</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Spectator&rft.atitle=A+real+book&rft.pages=29&rft.date=1991-09-21&rft.aulast=Forbes&rft.aufirst=Alastair&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.spectator.co.uk%2Farticle%2F21st-september-1991%2F29%2Fa-real-book&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALady+Dorothy+Macmillan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe20102467,_2477-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe20102467,_2477_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThorpe2010">Thorpe 2010</a>, 2467, 2477.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEThorpe201095-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEThorpe201095_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThorpe2010">Thorpe 2010</a>, p. 95. Thorpe points out that divorce still caused muttering as late as the 1950s. <a href="/wiki/Walter_Monckton,_1st_Viscount_Monckton_of_Brenchley" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley">Walter Monckton</a>'s divorce may have cost him promotion to the highest legal positions of Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor, while Anthony Eden faced criticism for divorcing and remarrying, and talk that he was unfit to make ecclesiastical appointments.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEParris1997[httpsarchiveorgdetailsgreatparliamenta0000parr_j7g3page98_98–104]-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParris1997[httpsarchiveorgdetailsgreatparliamenta0000parr_j7g3page98_98–104]_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFParris1997">Parris 1997</a>, pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/greatparliamenta0000parr_j7g3/page/98">98–104</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHorne198867-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHorne198867_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHorne1988">Horne 1988</a>, p. 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2010248-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2010248_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCampbell2010">Campbell 2010</a>, p. 248.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCampbell2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell_(biographer)" title="John Campbell (biographer)">Campbell, John</a> (2010). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pistolsatdawntwo0000camp"><i>Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown</i></a></span>. London: Vintage. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-845-95091-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-845-95091-0"><bdi>978-1-845-95091-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pistols+at+Dawn%3A+Two+Hundred+Years+of+Political+Rivalry+from+Pitt+and+Fox+to+Blair+and+Brown&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Vintage&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-845-95091-0&rft.aulast=Campbell&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpistolsatdawntwo0000camp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALady+Dorothy+Macmillan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHorne1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Alistair_Horne" title="Alistair Horne">Horne, Alistair</a> (1988). <i>Macmillan Volume I: 1894–1956</i> (original ed.). London: Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-333-27691-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-333-27691-4"><bdi>978-0-333-27691-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Macmillan+Volume+I%3A+1894%E2%80%931956&rft.place=London&rft.edition=original&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-333-27691-4&rft.aulast=Horne&rft.aufirst=Alistair&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALady+Dorothy+Macmillan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParris1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Parris" title="Matthew Parris">Parris, Matthew</a> (1997). <i>Great Parliamentary Scandals: Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear & Innuendo</i>. London: Robson Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-86105-152-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-86105-152-2"><bdi>1-86105-152-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Great+Parliamentary+Scandals%3A+Four+Centuries+of+Calumny%2C+Smear+%26+Innuendo&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Robson+Books&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=1-86105-152-2&rft.aulast=Parris&rft.aufirst=Matthew&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALady+Dorothy+Macmillan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThorpe2010" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/D._R._Thorpe" title="D. R. Thorpe">Thorpe, D. R.</a> (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lzVgMHMwZtwC"><i>Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan</i></a>. Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4090-5932-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4090-5932-5"><bdi>978-1-4090-5932-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Supermac%3A+The+Life+of+Harold+Macmillan&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-4090-5932-5&rft.aulast=Thorpe&rft.aufirst=D.+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlzVgMHMwZtwC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALady+Dorothy+Macmillan" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2009" class="citation book cs1">Williams, Charles (2009). <i>Harold Macmillan</i>. 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Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Stockton" title="Earl of Stockton">Earl of Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers" title="Macmillan Publishers">Macmillan Publishers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Giles%27_Church,_Horsted_Keynes" title="St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes">St Giles' Church, Horsted Keynes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037179#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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