Michaela, Lady Reid is a Danish/British author. Although her parents were Danes, she was educated in the UK, reading law at

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. She married Sir Alexander Reid, the grandson of Sir James Reid, personal physician to

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. She discovered Sir James's papers in the 1960s after moving into Ellon Castle in Aberdeenshire. Her book based on these papers, ''Ask Sir James'', was critically acclaimed and has been reprinted by

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She lives in

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