The Mitfords
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later sale, 665
Ismay, General Hastings, Baron, 224n
Jackson, Derek: friendly relations with Mosley, 35
marriage to Pamela, 35, 87n
rides in Grand National, 86
visits Mitford family, 105
Nancy denounces in war, 144
takes in Diana and Mosley after release from prison, 149
wartime service in Royal Air Force, 149, 156, 171, 176, 187
wartime research work, 153
in USA, 206
appointed Professor of Spectroscopy at Oxford, 214
hunting and steeplechasing, 214–15, 223, 748
moves to Tullamaine Castle, Ireland, 214, 264
divorce, 264, 272n, 747, 749
third marriage (to Janetta), 264
on wealth, 381
marriage to Barbara Skelton, 434
awarded Légion d’Honneur, 482 & n
engagement to Pamela, 557
celebrates Pamela’s seventieth birthday, 647
death, 684–5
will, 686–7
letters to Pamela, 747
on faith, 802
Jackson, Janetta (née Woolley; then Kee; then Parlade), 264, 326 & n, 708
Jackson, Vivian, 35
Jailhouse Rock (film), 302 & n
Jamaica: Deborah visits with Andrew, 373–4 & n
James, Audrey Evelyn (later Field; then Pleydell-Bouverie), 240 & n, 254
James, Edward, 47 & n, 241n, 254, 761–2
Jean-Pierre (Mosleys’ driver), 282
Jeans, Sir James: The Stars in their Courses, 556
Jebb, Sir Gladwyn see Gladwyn, Baron Jebb, Julian, 658 & n, 660–1, 663–4, 668–70, 682n Jenkins, Roy, 687n
Jews: Nazis persecute, 36
Nancy mocks Unity’s attitude to, 53
Hitler speaks about, 68
mixed-race, 125–6
Mosley denounces, 612, 633, 635n
Unity admits to hating, 623
Johannesburg, 409
John, Augustus, xv, 282, 311, 456
John Paul I, Pope, 653 & n
Johnson, Lady Bird, 705
Johnson, Lyndon B., 373–4 & n, 425, 434, 443, 507
Jones, Olive, 47
Joshi, Vijay, 430 & n
Joyce, William (‘Lord Haw-Haw’), 84 & n
Jullian, Philippe, 431
Kahn, Barbara, 372
Kahn, Otto, 245n
Kahn, Richard, Baron, 612
Kandinsky, Wassily, 112n
Kannenberg, Willy, 128–9
Katanga, 360, 387n
Kearsey, Alexander, 125n, 410 & n, 414
Kearsey, Clementine (‘Pussette’), 414
Kearsey, Frances (née Mitford Aunt Puss’), 124 & n
Kee, Janetta see Jackson, Janetta
Kee, Robert: chairs Brains Trust, 308 & n
Deborah meets in Paris, 328
on Panorama programme, 345
at lunch for Jessica, 418
dines with Deborah, 503
Frances Partridge on, 708
and Mitterrand, 764
The Green Flag, 459 & n
Keeler, Christine, 391n, 400
Kennedy, Edward, 385 & n, 773
Kennedy, Ethel (née Skakel), 424
Kennedy, George, 760
Kennedy, John F.: acquaintance with Mitfords, xv
inauguration, 326, 346–7
fondness for Deborah, 350, 360–1
meets Macmillan in Bermuda, 359 & n
regard for Macmillan, 362
Deborah visits, 369
telephones Deborah, 380n
attends Chatsworth loan exhibition of drawings in Washington, 383, 385 & n
broadcasts on Cuban missile crisis, 385 & n
cancels Skybolt missile programme, 385 & n
Nancy dreams of, 387–8
visits Edensor and sister Kathleen’s grave, 398 & n-400
assassinated, 403–4
Kennedy, Joseph, 359 & n, 764
Kennedy, Robert, 424 & n, 511
Kennedy, Rose, 764
Kenyatta, Jomo, 382
Keppel, Alice (née Edmonstone), 222 & n
Keppel, Lady Cecilia (Cela), 28 & n, 29
Keswick Show (1983), 695
Khashoggi, Adnan, 784 & n
Khrushchev, Nikita, 314, 328, 333n, 422, 788
Kilmartin, Joanna (née Pearce), 502
Kimmich, Maria (née Goebbels), 77 & n
Kimmich, Max W, 78n
Kissinger, Henry and Nancy (née Maginnes), 768
Kliot, Aranka (née Hajos; then Treuhaft), 214, 249 & n, 280–1, 298, 487
Knight, Hester (née Loyd; ‘Heck’), 692, 747, 766
Kohler, Herbert, Jr, 716
Korean War (1950–3): outbreak, 271 & n
Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 460–1
Labouchere, Rachel, Lady, 463
Labour Party: forms government (1945), 215
Ladies’ Home Journal, 257 & n
Lady see Mitford, Nancy
Lady Macleans Cook Book, 476 & n
Lady, The (magazine), xv, 3, 22n, 106
La Fayette, Madame de (Marie Madeleine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de): La Princesse de Clèves, 253 & n, 259n, 268
Lamb, Henry, 28 & n
Lamb, Lady Pansy (née Pakenham), 28 & n
Lambton, Antony, Viscount, 640–1 & n, 701, 788
Lambton, Lady Elizabeth (née Fitzmaurice), 526 & n
Lancaster, Nancy (née Perkins; then Tree; then Field), 273 & n
Lancaster, Osbert, 376, 379 Lansdowne, Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 7th Marquess of, 203 & n
Lanvin (couturier), 348, 364
Laroche, Baroness, 37, 89
Laski, Marghanita, 544
Lasteyrie, Marquis Louis de (‘Lolotte’), 278 & n
Lauda, Niki: For the Record, 651 & n
Laval, Pierre, 217 & n, 248
Law, Joy (née Spira), 586, 588
Lawley, Sue, 725 & n
Laycock, Robert, 343
Leach, Penelope, 533n
Lees-Milne, Alvilde (née Bridges; then Viscountess Chaplin), 227 & n, 233, 243, 399–400, 448, 450, 613, 666, 705
Lees-Milne, James: friendship with Nancy, 9
correspondence, 79
marriage to Alvilde, 227n
visits Chatsworth, 399–400
walks in Cotswolds with Nancy, 452
letter to The Times on Lady Redesdale’s death, 565 & n
devotion to Diana, 665
on Bryan Guinness’s meeting with Diana, 694n
at launch party for Selina Hastings’s biography of Nancy, 705
at Pamela’s birthday celebration, 720
on Pamela’s economizing, 721
and Pamela’s obituaries, 743
on Patrick Leigh Fermor, 758
on growing old, 782
death, 791n
Ancient as the Hills, 779 & n
The Bachelor Duke, 399n
Lehane, Emmy, 388 & n, 406, 569, 663, 674–5
Lehane, Jerry: at Redesdale’s funeral, 306
as Mosley’s driver, 388 & n, 454
hopes to go to Lismore, 406
amused by demonstration of new vacuum cleaner, 440
shoots ravens, 461
on Mosley’s TV appearance, 517
meets Ronnie Peterson, 568–9
helps Diana during Nancy’s illness, 609
and Palewski’s visit to Pope, 663
looks after Diana, 674–5, 730, 775
and Diana’s wish to die, 680
and injured mallard, 723
Lehane, John, 569
Lehmann, Rosamond, 516
Lenya, Lotte, 761
Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (ed. Charlotte Mosley), 45n, 759
Leverhulme, Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount, 765, 789
Liaut, Jean-Noël, 791 & n, 803
Liberace, 314
Life (magazine), 471, 474
Lillie, Beatrice, 273
Lindemann, Frederick Ale
xander (later Viscount Cherwell), 214
Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, 282, 310n, 697, 789
Lisney, Suzanne (later Guinness), 21n
Lloyd, Alexander, 2nd Baron, 92n
Lloyd, Jean, Lady (née Lady Jean Ogilvy), 92–3 & n, 780
Lloyd, John Selwyn, 788
Lloyd George, David, 444
Loewenstein, Princess Josephine, 541 & n
Londonderry, Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of, 69 & n, 150
Londonderry, Edith, Marchioness of, 69–70 & n
Longford, Elizabeth, Countess of, 788
Longford, Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of, 563, 579, 693–4, 788–9
Longleat (estate), Wiltshire, 467n
Lord, Tom, 292, 303
Los Angeles: riots (1965), 438
Losch, Ottilie (Tilly; Countess of Carnarvon), 47 & n, 450n
Louis XIV, King of France, 323, 423
Louis, Joe, 69n
Lovell, Mary S.: The Mitford Girls, 797n
Lowry-Corrie, Patricia, 579
Lubbock, Adelaide (née Stanley), 238 & n, 254 & n
Lucinge, ‘Baba’ see Faucigny-Lucinge, Princess Liliane de
Lutyens, Emily: Candles in the Sun, 461
Lygon, Lady Dorothy (‘Coote’) see Heber-Percy, Lady Dorothy
Lygon, Lady Mary (Maimie), 668
Lynn, Olga, 225 & n
Maastricht Treaty (1992), 735n
Mac, Mrs (Biddesden cook), 28
McCalmont, Lilah, 162,166
McCarran Act (USA), 270n
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 265
McCarthy, Mary, 476, 751
Birds of America, 554 & n, 557, 576–7
MacDonald, Ramsay, 78n
McFadyen, John, 357
McGee, Willie, 265
MacGillivray, Sir Donald, 374
MacGillivray, Neil, 375n
McGregor, Neil, 800
Machell, Roger, 687
Macindoe, Armida and Rosemary, 68 & n, 71n, 671, 684
Macindoe, Colonel J.D., 71n
Mackinnon family, 579–80
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy (née Cavendish), 319, 355, 378, 402 & n, 717
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton): Deborah visits, 319 & n, 355
appoints Andrew Devonshire to Commonwealth Relations Office post, 325
visits to Chatsworth, 339, 698
visits de Gaulle, 348
Bermuda meeting with Kennedy, 359 & n, 361
Kennedy’s regard for, 362
Deborah criticizes, 378
letter to Deborah, 380
and Skybolt missile programme, 386n
Kennedy visits in England, 399n
taunts Labour Party for indecision over Common Market, 418n
sees sample of Skidelsky’s book on Mosley, 430
declines then accepts peerage, 578 & n
Jeremy Thorpe imitates, 584
protests at label ‘citizen’, 652
widowed, 698n
death and funeral, 717
Winds of Change, 470 & n
Madeleine (Mosley’s French cook), 282
Mailer, Norman, 642
Maitland, Peter, 783 & n
Major, John, 756
Malraux, André, 348
Manchester, 453–4
Margaret, Princess: Nancy’s nickname for, 287 & n
dines with Deborah, 319
visits Chatsworth and Derbyshire, 373, 375 & n
gives prize to Deborah for Shetland Pony win, 513
nicknamed ‘Yvonne’ by Private Eye, 541n
attends ball at Quaglino’s after Duke of Windsor’s death, 582
Harold Acton avoids, 609
Elizabeth Cavendish acts as Lady-in-Waiting to, 622 & n
Marie Antoinette (film), 286n
Marlborough Club, 93
Marlborough, Gladys, Duchess of (née Deacon), 651 & n
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of, 303 & n
Marlborough, Laura, Duchess of (née Charteris), 713
Marriott, Maud, Lady (née Kahn; ‘Momo’), 244 & n, 317–18, 338, 348
Marsh, Sir Edward, 179 & n, 185
Martini, Umberto de, 231n
Mary, Queen of George V, 239
Maugham, William Somerset, 278
Maxwell, Elsa, 294
Mayall, Mary (née Ormsby-Gore), 175, 623 & n
Maynard, Miss (furrier), 345, 347
Mboya, Tom, 382
Mellon, Paul, 503
Mellon, Rachel (née Lloyd; ‘Bunny’), 384, 504n
Mellors, Keith and Stella, 747
Ménégand, Madame (Mémé), 372, 524
Menuhin, Yehudi, 399
Mersey, Edward Bigham, 3rd Viscount, 491 & n
Mersey, Katherine, Viscountess (née Petty-Fitzmaurice; ‘Wife’): friendship with Deborah, 284 & n, 294–9, 319, 571, 692
and general election result (1959), 318
unwell in Inch Kenneth, 341
on President Kennedy, 361
Diana takes to film, 375
in Ireland with Deborah, 416
likeness to Lady Labouchere, 463
coffee-making, 491
on Mosley’s TV interview, 517
visits Diana, 526
tea-drinking, 559
visits Chatsworth, 614
death, 764
Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra (née Curzon; ‘Bar Bar’ or ‘Baba’), 36, 38, 690
Mexico City: earthquake (1957), 298
Meyer, Eugene, 147
Millar, Elizabeth (‘Doodie’) see Costa de Beauregard, Elizabeth
Milnes-Gaskell, Mary (later Motley), 13 & n
Mitchell Beazley (publishers), 500n
Mitchell, James, 500n
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind, 116
Mitford, Bertram (Lord Redesdale’s brother; ‘Tommy’), 45n, 746
Mitford, Clementine (later Lady Beit; ‘Tina’), 81 & n, 113
MITFORD, DEBORAH see Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of
MITFORD, DIANA see Mosley, Diana, Lady
Mitford, Dorothy (née Cordes Bertram’s wife; ‘Aunt Sport’), 44, 45n, 157
Mitford Girls, The (stage musical), 670n
Mitford, Iris, 22 & n, 84, 238, 306, 332, 447, 469, 475n
Mitford, Jack see Redesdale, John Mitford, 4th Baron
MITFORD, JESSICA see Treuhaft, Jessica
MITFORD, NANCY: political beliefs, xvi, 34
childhood home, 3
leaves home, 3
depicts father, 4
describes mother, 5
education, 5–6
coming out as debutante, 6
attachment to St Clair-Erskine, 7, 9, 20, 22, 738
journalism, 7, 22n
relations with sisters, 7–8
socialism, 10, 34
studies art at Slade, 14n
and Diana’s divorce from Guinness, 27n, 28
engagement and marriage to Rodd, 33–4, 44n, 45
breach with Diana, 34
and Jessica’s elopement, 40, 83n, 107
on unhappy childhood, 41
correspondence with Evelyn Waugh, 45n, 759 & n
not told of Diana’s marriage to Mosley, 104n
teases Deborah as child, 121n
miscarriages, 136n, 144–5
in London in early months of war, 143–5, 151
denounces Diana and Mosley in war, 144–7, 212
reconciliation with Diana, 144–5, 170
affair and infatuation with Palewski, 145, 211, 223, 226–7, 230, 237—9, 246, 255, 263–4, 380, 483
works at Heywood Hill’s bookshop, 145, 188, 193n, 200, 204
works in canteen, 145, 180–1
on Unity’s condition, 180
ectopic pregnancy and removal of ovaries, 182–3 & n 356 & n
anti-Americanism, 199–200, 295, 305, 360–1, 363, 471, 549
on Unity’s death, 211
letters to Diana, 212
life in Paris, 212, 215–17, 219, 23
7–9, 248, 263
dislikes Mosley, 213, 730
Jessica renews relations with after war, 214
translates Palewski’s articles for Randolph Churchill, 224
moves to rue Monsieur, Paris, 240 & n
visits England from Paris, 242–3, 246, 450
and mother’s caring for Unity, 251–2
translates Mme de La Fayette’s Princesse de Clèves, 254n, 259n, 268
visits Diana, 255, 439, 457–8
Diana visits in Paris, 258
writes film scripts, 259n, 286n
adapts The Little Hut, 263, 270
article on U and non-U, 263, 285 & n, 288 & n
closer relations with Diana, 263–4
divorce from Rodd, 263
Francophilia, 263, 460, 502
writes for Sunday Times, 263, 278
Jessica visits in Paris, 266, 288–90, 315n
praises Deborah for improvements to Chatsworth, 267
declines Hollywood script-writing offer, 279 & n
visit to Moscow, 279 & n, 281
will, 280 & n, 474 & n, 481
sends money to Jessica, 281
dress, 286, 320, 348, 364, 448
suggests names for Deborah’s daughter, 294
in Venice, 317, 338, 356, 372, 399, 436, 465, 514
affected by mother’s death, 323
jealousy over Palewski’s affairs, 324
mocks Deborah’s Shetland ponies, 326
newspaper report on being required to report to French police during Khrushchev’s visit, 333n, 334–5
grey hair, 372
depicts mother as causing unhappy childhood, 376 & n, 377–8, 737
visit to mother on Inch Kenneth, 379
baffled by letter from Sunday Times reader, 381
on mother’s decline and death, 393, 395, 397
friendship with James Lees-Milne, 399n
at Emma Tennant’s wedding, 401
Deborah visits in Paris, 421
moves to Versailles, 426, 457–8, 463, 479, 483–4
prospective funeral, 426
leaves literary estate to be managed by Deborah, 437n
bridge-playing, 448
visits Deborah in Ireland, 460–1
boils egg for father in war, 471
Hodgkin’s disease, 479–80
operation for tumour of liver, 479
and Palewski’s marriage to Violette de Pourtalès, 479, 526
appearance in old age, 480
correspondence with Jessica over childhood, 480
reaction to Constancia Romilly’s pregnancy, 487–8
Versailles garden and wildlife, 489, 497, 499–500, 509, 511, 535, 546
at Peregrine’s wedding dance, 494
on hedgehogs, 500, 509
criticizes parents, 502–3
disagreement with Andrew Devonshire over France, 502
anti-English sentiments, 503
disparages Socialist government, 507
visits Germany, 507
article on pronunciation, 508–9 & n
on Diana’s unhealthy appearance, 508