Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  A mụrụ Douglas-Home na Mayfair, London, nke mbụ n'ime ụmụ asaa nke Lord Dunglass (nwa nwoke nke okenye nke The 12th Earl of Home) na nwunye ya, Lady Lilian Lambton (nwa nwanyị nke The 4th Earl of Durham). A na-ejikarị aha mbụ nke nwata nwoke ahụ eme ihe dị ka "Alec". Otu n'ime ụmụ ndị ntorobịa nke di na nwunye ahụ bụ onye na-ede ihe nkiri William Douglas-Home. N'afọ 1918, 12th Earl of Home nwụrụ, Dunglass nọchiri ya na earldom, na aha nsọpụrụ gafere Alec Douglas-Home, onye a kpọrọ Lord Dunglass ruo 1951. A zụrụ Lord Dunglass na-eto eto na Ludgrove School, nke Eton College sochiri. Na Eton ndị ya na ha dịkọrọ ndụ gụnyere Cyril Connolly, onye mechara kọwaa ya dị ka:  Ajụjụ: Olee ebe a mụrụ Douglas-Home?
Mayfair, London