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| | Independent, The (London): Obituary: Lady Margaret Douglas-Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | The last public record of her as a performer is of her playing "Ain't Misbehavin' " and Viennese salon music at her family house, Althorp, in Northamptonshire, for a television documentary which was prompted by her autobiographical volume A Spencer Childhood (1994) and which it is hoped will be broadcast in the near future. |
 | | She was born Margaret Spencer in 1906, the sixth and youngest child of Bobbie Spencer, later sixth Earl Spencer, and Margaret Baring, the modest, warm-hearted and unconventional daughter of the first Lord Revelstoke, the banker. |
 | | Her mother was the favourite sister in a talented brood that included the novelist and Russophile Maurice Baring and the two eldest boys, John and Cecil, successively second and third Baron Revelstoke, who turned the fortunes of the family bank around after the great crash of 1890 over which their father had presided. |
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