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The Mitfords

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by Charlotte Mosley

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

 

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