Debo mitford biography sample
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I have been waiting months to read this, as it seems the entire membership of the New York Public Library was in line to read it before me, and they well and truly took their time! However, the wait was absolutely worthwhile and I was enthralled throughout this delightful volume of memoirs from the gods surviving Mitford sister. inom adore reading everything inom can about the eccentric, witty, unconventional and beautiful Mitford sisters, whose lives spanned the tumultuous 20th century and who counted Hitler, Churchill, JFK and the Prince of Wales, among others, as their friends. Debo, the youngest of the clan, never courted fame or controversy like her older sisters; she married Andrew, second son of the Duke of Devonshire, at 21, and settled down to what she thought would be an unremarkable existence as an officer’s wife. Little did she know that three years later Andrew’s older brother Billy, married to JFK’s sister Kick Kennedy, would be killed in action, and that
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Mostly British History
Finally, we have reached the last post of our Mitford Sister’s trilogy, and if you are still reading, you must be sighing in relief! I am excited to dive into the life, of Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, the sister I love most, and the one who got me interested in this family to begin with. (So if you have grown tired of my writing about these women, you have her to blame!) We will also be driving a bit more into the Mitford family dynamics, I’ll be sharing some anecdotes and stories about the family, and finally sharing some more resources about them. But for now….Let’s meet “Debo.” (Her nickname universally used)
Deborah Mitford was born in 1920 and unfortunately, she was not a boy. As her sister Nancy shared in a decades later interview, their parlor maid had told her upon Debo’s birth that she knew immediately that the baby was not a boy from the look on Lord Redesdale’s face… In this interview Nancy went on to share that although disappoin
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Diana, Debo's favourite sister, left her first husband, Bryan Guinness, for the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and was imprisoned in Holloway from 1940 until 1943. Nancy informed on Diana to the Foreign Office, calling her 'an extremely dangerous person.' She later admitted that this was, 'not very sisterly behaviour' but did it again in protest against her sister's release from prison, a betrayal that Diana mercifully never discovered. Although Nancy was sharp and elegant, Diana was the staggering beauty, and it may have fanned the flames when Diana, who had two sons from her first marriage, gave birth to two Mosley sons (Formula 1's Max, and Alexander, who died four years ago) within weeks of Nancy's two miscarriages.
Nancy, with her naturally satirical mind, could not observe Unity's naïve passion and Diana's commitment to the fascist cause (so at odds with her gentle, empathetic character) without immortalising it as best she