The Mitfords
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stays with Pamela in Switzerland, 515–16
considers contacting father through medium, 516
in Prague, 516, 520
interviewed for Sunday Express, 521
Pamela visits, 522
illness and treatment, 524–5, 528–35, 537–9, 545–6, 549, 554, 563–4, 567, 570, 573–4, 576, 584, 586, 588, 702–3, 745, 748–9, 762
visit to East Germany, 541 & n
interviewed by David Pryce-Jones, 545n, 546–8
French racehorse named for, 548
and Jessica’s offer to visit from USA, 552–3, 563, 575
on feelings for mother, 554, 557–8, 562
proposed autobiography, 558, 561–2, 566–7
in Observer interview with Jessica, 572–5
awarded Legion of Honour, 575–6
awarded CBE, 578
Jessica cares for in Versailles, 589–93, 609, 670
death, cremation and burial, 593–5
Harold Acton writes memoir of, 609, 613, 630–1
view of Hitler, 637–8
provokes mother, 638
sisters appear in TV film on, 657, 659–61, 663–4, 668
Selina Hastings writes biography, 667, 702–3
Sidney Watkins sees, 681
collected letters, 728 & n, 731, 735–8
The Blessing, 16n, 259n, 263, 272n
Christmas Pudding, 7, 25n
Don’t Tell Alfred, 318n, 320, 323, 340–1, 343, 349, 511n
‘The English Aristocracy’, 286n
Frederick the Great, 507 & n, 517n, 521, 531, 538
‘The Great Little Duke’, 291n
Highland Fling, 4, 7, 22n
The Ladies of Alderley (ed.), 137n, 484
Love in a Cold Climate, 238 & n, 243n, 249–50, 257 & n, 263, 284n, 387, 617n
TV adaptation, 653n, 655, 669
Love from Nancy, 577, 729n, 730n, 735n, 738n
Madame de Pompadour, 263, 280n
Noblesse Oblige, 289n, 759; ‘The Old Ladies’, 30n
Pigeon Pie, 144
The Pursuit of Love, 87n, 121n, 145, 204n, 211–12, 218n, 223n, 224, 239n, 380
as musical comedy, 438, 488, 490, 492 & n
film, 555
TV adaptation, 653n
The Stanleys of Alderley (ed.), 13711
The Sun King, 323, 423n, 469–70, 474
Voltaire in Love, 263, 297n, 306 & n
The Water Beetle (collection), 291n, 376n, 384, 544
Wigs on the Green, 34, 45n, 49n, 52, 58,144
MITFORD, PAMELA (‘Woman’): accompanies Diana to South Africa, 603
writing, xvii
marriage to Jackson, 3
engagement to Watney, 7, 17n, 34
birth, 8
character and qualities, 8, 344
polio, 8
runs Biddesden farm, 9, 33–4
portrayed, 19
leaves home, 34
motoring, 35
suitors, 35
dyes hair, 102
visits family, 105
at Rignell in war, 144, 146, 148, 152–4, 177
Nancy denounces in war, 144
takes in Diana and Mosley after release from prison, 149, 192–3
flies back from USA in war, 152
at Deborah’s wedding, 175
Diana’s children stay with in war, 176, 578–9, 708
gives up herd of cattle in war, 177
celebrates Christmas (1941), 187
lives at Tullamaine castle, Ireland, 214, 301, 310, 748
remains at Rignell after war, 214
‘sagas’, 214, 354, 453, 541
and Derek’s racing, 223
divorce and settlement, 264, 272 & n, 278n, 747, 749
relations with Giuditta Tommasi, 264, 324, 748–9
visits to continent, 264
Jessica visits from USA, 266
wears hairnet, 277 & n
will, 278 & n
friendship with Rudi von Simolin, 301n
and father’s funeral, 306
buys and lets Woodfield House, near Cirencester, 324, 349
leaves Tullamaine and sells belongings, 324
stays at Deborah’s London house with Nancy, 335
devotion to dogs, 344, 350
Diana criticizes, 345
and interior decoration, 345
shopping indecisiveness, 370
visits Deborah, 370
visits Diana in Orsay, 375
denies unhappy upbringing, 377–8
and mother’s death and funeral, 395, 398
at Emma Tennant’s wedding, 401
in Zurich, 414, 442
calls off visit to Deborah, 423
visits Nancy in Paris and Versailles, 423, 425, 498, 505, 522
lacks fireplace, 426
considers writing book, 430
discussion with Raymond Mortimer, 432
on reasons for moving to Grüningen, 459
comforts Nancy during illness, 480, 530–1, 539–40, 543, 562, 564, 569, 745
leaves Switzerland to live in England, 480
life at Woodfield, 480, 587–8, 603, 642
in Paris, 489
at Peregrine’s wedding celebrations, 494, 494
Deborah visits, 512
husbandry, 512
Nancy visits in Switzerland, 515–16
suffers theft, 528
Mogens Tvede wishes to marry, 535
accompanies Nancy to East Germany, 541
appearance, 544
kidnap and ransom fantasy, 551 & n
effect of engagement, 557
at Chatsworth during bomb scare, 571–2
and Nancy’s funeral, 595, 596, 597
opposes Pryce-Jones’s biography of Unity, 603
poultry-breeding, 603, 696
stands for parish council, 620–1
in Diana’s memoirs, 621
and lost family scrapbook, 624, 626–8, 648
meets Jessica after dispute, 635–6
celebrates Queen’s Silver Jubilee, 642–4
seventieth birthday celebrations, 645, 647
buys Swinbrook cottage, 648
congratulates Jessica on A Fine Old Conflict, 650
in TV film about Nancy, 659, 664
Diana visits, 690–1
gives jewel replica to Unity, 697 & n
visits Diana, 703
letters to Diana in prison, 708
and Diana’s stay at Swinbrook cottage, 709
winters in South Africa, 720
knée operation, 729, 731–2
death and funeral, 742–52, 764
leaves house to Emma Tennant, 745
early correspondence, 800
strict upbringing, 800–1
Mitford, Thomas (Tom): correspondence with Nancy, 3
schooling, 5
studies for Bar, 23n
friendship with Randolph Churchill, 26n
Christmas present from Deborah, 52
visit to Munich, 56, 57. attitude to Hitler, 57n
Hitler praises, 76
and George VI’s coronation, 94
escorts Deborah at debutante dances, 104
pictured, 142
war service, 151
works on Rattenbury case, 158n
on Margaret Wright at Inch Kenneth, 202
killed in action in Burma, 205–6 & n, 211, 217, 663
teased about adultery, 207
rhyme on Pamela’s hairnet, 278n
Mosley claims to have been member of British Union of Facists, 518 & n, 521, 658n, 661
Nancy accuses of hating Mosley, 521, 738n
political views, 522, 658n
misrepresented in TV film on Nancy, 660
relations with Diana, 762
MITFORD, UNITY: political views, xvi, 10–11, 90
suicide attempt, xvi, 40, 114n, 143, 247n, 560
early letters, xvii
character and behaviour, 10–11,187–8, 218
schooling, 11, 378
private language
, 14n
as debutante, 23 & n, 24
joins British Union of Fascists, 33
threatens breach with Nancy, 34
admiration for Hitler, 36, 40, 46, 49, 54, 56, 58, 63
embraces Nazism in Germany, 36, 40, 53–6, 61n
meetings with Hitler, 37, 54, 64–5, 68, 80, 85, 103, 113, 116, 126, 130, 137
as confidante and correspondent of Diana, 38
devotion to Jessica, 40
Diana takes to Nazi Party Congress, 43n
satirized in Nancy’s Wigs on the Green, 45n
pictured, 50, 117
makes Hannibal collage for Hitler, 54n, 55
twenty-first birthday, 62
Eva Baum denounces, 69n
on Mediterranean cruise, 71n
attitude to Romilly, 90
hostility to Violet Hammersley (Wid), 98
musician favours, 100
and Terence O’Connor, 103
returns from Germany, 105
dislike of Italians, 128n
flu/pneumonia, 130–5
Daily Express criticizes, 136
pet dog, 139n
condition after suicide attempt, 143, 155, 157, 165, 174, 175, 178, 180
rumoured to be in concentration camp, 144
whereabouts unknown after outbreak of war, 151
life at High Wycombe, 154–5
stays with Pamela at Rignell, 154–5
embraces Christian Science, 169
at Deborah’s wedding, 174, 175
banned from visiting Diana in prison, 174
visits Pamela, 177
hostility to Deborah, 178
mother cares for, 180, 218, 230, 251
prison visits to Diana, 181,185
on Inch Kenneth with parents, 203, 211
death from meningitis, 211, 247n, 252
threatened by strangers, 222
Mosley accused of attempting to seduce, 228–9 & n
Nancy’s proposals for welfare, 230
Deborah entertains at Christmas 1946, 231
questions clergymen, 232
works in hospital, 240
Nancy writes on, 281
David Pryce-Jones writes biography, 545n, 547, 603, 605–6, 617, 623–7, 629, 631–3, 637
in Diana’s memoirs, 618–19
Jessica declares affection for, 626n, 634, 642n
in Julian Jebb article, 663
gives ‘Chicken’s Mess’ to Hitler, 697
All About Everybody, 7, 148
Mitterrand, François, 764
Mohrt, Michel, 688
Molotov, Vyachelsav M., 290
Monckton, Bridget, Viscountess (née Hore-Ruthven; ‘Idol’), 581 & n
Monckton, Walter, 1st Viscount, 581n, 582
Monkey Club, The (London finishing school), 41
Montagu, Edwin, 256 & n
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law, 1st Viscount, 463 & n, 467, 469–70, 527 & n
A History of Warfare, 471n
Montgomery, David (later 2nd Viscount), 463 & n
Moral Rearmament (earlier Oxford Group), 84n, 109–10
Moran, Charles Wilson, Baron: The Struggle for Survival 459 & n, 462
Morell, Dr Theodor, 134n
Morgan, Sydney, Lady, 99n
Morley, Robert, 440
Morrison, Alastair, 736n
Morrison, Declan James (Sophia’s son), 736 & n
Morrison, Nancy (Sophia’s daughter), 779
Morrison, Sophy see Cavendish, Lady Sophia Louise Sydney
Mortimer, Raymond: corrects Nancy’s Voltaire in Love, 296 & n
writes obituary of Violet Hammersley, 413n
discusses Goethe with Pamela, 432
in Venice with Nancy, 436
unheated home, 448
reviews Nancy’s The Sun King, 469
dines with Nancy, 482
irritates Nancy with views, 505
obituary of Nancy, 595
Mosley, Alexander: in Nancy’s Don’t Tell Alfred, 34
birth, 38, 136n, 137
and mother’s detention in war, 146, 160, 163–4, 699, 708, 711
pictured, 161
wartime childhood, 164–5, 170, 187, 189–90
sent to boarding school, 233 & n, 264
at father’s political meeting, 245
moves from Crowood, 264, 748
on Mohammedanism, 267
sexual awareness, 267–8
and burning of Clonfert, 282
sees first Aldermaston march, 307
studies at Ohio State University, 362 & n
gives up smoking, 409
returns to England from France, 511
on father’s TV interview, 517
childhood and upbringing, 578–80
expelled from school, 656
marriage, 674
and Nicholas Mosley’s Rules of the Game, 686, 688
in Paris, 790n
Mosley, Alexander (Max/Jean’s son), 674n
Mosley, Charlotte (née Marten), 674 & n, 680–1, 699, 703, 790n; (ed.) Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, 45n, 759n; (ed.) A Talent to Annoy, 509n
Mosley, Cynthia, Lady: death, 33, 35
MOSLEY, DIANA, Lady (née Mitford; then Guinness): estrangement from Jessica, xvi, 40, 59, 607, 670, 704, 755
political beliefs, xvi, 34, 37, 353
early letter from Unity, xvii
final letter from Deborah, xvii
marriage to Bryan Guinness, 7, 9–10
relations with Nancy, 7
relations with brother Tom, 8
social awareness, 8
studies in Paris, 9, 14n
divorce from Guinness, 10–11, 24 & n, 27–8, 35
meeting and affair with Mosley, 10–11, 25n, 33
tonsillectomy, 13n
in Mürren, Switzerland, 28, 29
breach with Nancy, 34
visits and admires Nazi Germany, 36–7
meets Hitler, 37
children with Mosley, 38, 134, 156–7
close relations and correspondence with Unity, 38
devotion to Mosley, 38
marriage to Mosley in Germany, 38, 75–7, 83, 104n
sends money to Jessica, 42, 118
takes Unity to Nazi Party Congress, 43n
satirized in Nancy’s Wigs on the Green, 45n, 58
beauty, 52
pictured, 59, 75
injured in car crash, 62n, 184n
abortions of children by Mosley, 63n
quarrel with Mosley, 78 & n
Deborah forbidden to see after marriage, 83
sends wedding present to Jessica, 95
reads Mein Kampf, 109
resists Oxford Group, 109–10
sends money to Unity, 134
imprisoned in war, 144, 146, 159–60, 162–3, 167–8, 185, 191, 708, 711
Nancy denounces, 144–7, 212
reconciliation with Nancy, 144–5, 170
released from prison (1943), 146, 192 & n
Pamela takes in after release from prison, 149,192–3
buys fur coat with share of Sunday Pictorial damages, 167n
Unity visits in prison, 181, 185
Mosley joins in Holloway, 185 & n, 187
visits father after death of brother Tom, 206
on Unity’s funeral, 211
letters from Nancy, 212
supports Mosley’s post-war political aims, 213, 245
in Belgravia house, 243n
supports Nancy in writing Love in a Cold Climate, 249
plans trip to Channel Islands, 250n
translates Balzac, 254n, 268
Nancy visits, 255, 439, 457–8
reacquires passport, 257
visits Nancy in Paris, 258
visits Spain, 258
buys and occupies property near Paris, 263
Nancy’s closer relations with, 263–4
edits The European, 264
fails to meet Jessica on visit from USA, 266
migraines, 295 & n
, 302 & n, 343, 353, 480, 583, 608, 610
at father’s funeral, 306
visits Venice, 314
stays with Nancy in Paris, 320
leaves Ireland for Orsay, 324
travel, 324
writes memoirs, 324, 604, 614, 617–19, 621
reading, 325
criticizes Jessica’s Hons and Rebels, 330
confused with Nancy in newspaper report, 333–5
complains about England, 352
mother pities for disappointing life, 358
visits mother on Inch Kenneth, 371n
sorts letters in clearing out Ileclash, 389–90
at Emma Tennant’s wedding, 401
cancels holiday in Egypt with husband, 406–7 & n
visits to South Africa, 406–7, 409–10, 413, 428
life at Orsay, 416
flu (1964), 419
plans funeral, 426–7
in Dublin, 435
cares for Nancy during illness, 480, 524–5, 530, 539, 545–6, 570, 577, 588–9, 597–8, 609, 731, 748–9
duodenal ulcer, 480, 552
meets Jessica before Nancy’s death, 481
on Jessica’s reaction to Constancia’s pregnancy, 486–7
at Peregrine’s wedding dance, 494
in Venice, 513
Deborah believes changed, 519–20
and Jessica’s visit to see sick Nancy, 533
relations with mother, 554, 565
visits Deborah at Chatsworth, 570
interviewed on American TV, 572–3
on contented childhood, 580
letters to Jessica, 595 & n
at Nancy’s funeral, 596, 596
opposes Pryce-Jones’s biography of Unity, 603, 662 & n, 664
view of Hitler, 604, 801–2
writes biography of Duchess of Windsor, 604
keeps diary, 614 & n
and Jessica’s hostility to sisters, 630–1
interviewed on Russell Harty’s TV programmes, 640–1, 721
visits son Desmond in Ireland, 644
translates Niki Lauda’s autobiography, 651
in TV film about Nancy, 659
and Oswald Mosley’s death, 672–4, 678–9, 681, 686
operation for brain tumour, 674–8, 683
convalesces at Chatsworth, 677
visit to Pamela, 690–1
Bryan Guinness meets in House of Lords, 693–4
deafness, 693 & n, 735, 739, 756, 762, 781
Pamela visits, 703
lets Temple de la Gloire and stays at Swinbrook, 708 & n
attends Duchess of Windsor’s funeral, 712
appears on Desert Island Discs, 725
and Jessica’s death, 755
moves to Paris flat, 755, 788n, 790
operation for skin cancer, 756n
recounts friendships, 760–2
portrayed as Polyhymnia in National Gallery mosaic, 762n
on old age, 781–2
favourite books, 784
Jan Dalley writes biography, 791 & n
on funerals, 793
on faith and hope, 802–3
death, cremation and burial, 804