The Mitfords
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The Duchess of Windsor, 662 & n, 664
A Life of Contrasts, 218n, 604, 614 & n, 641n, 803 & n
Loved Ones, 87n, 156n, 341n, 604, 691n, 701n
Mosley, Jean (née Taylor), 338, 343, 569, 673
Mosley, Leonard: Curzon, 381 & n
Mosley, Louis (Alexander/Charlotte’s son), 698 & n, 783
Mosley, Max: and mother’s detention in war, 146, 160, 163–4, 711
birth, 155 & n
pictured, 161
wartime childhood, 170, 185, 187, 189–90
adenoids removed, 257
holiday in Spain, 258
at boarding school, 264
moves from Crowood, 264, 579
stays with grandmother, 273
opera-going, 338
marriage, 339n, 343
in Oxford, 343
approached by agent to take ammunition from Territorial Army, 408
gives up smoking, 409
motor racing interests, 499 & n, 560, 568–9 & n
returns to England from France, 511
upbringing, 578–80
expelled from school, 656
and Bernie Ecclestone, 671
and father’s death, 673
and Nicholas Mosley’s Rules of the Game, 688
visits Diana at Swinbrook, 709–10
Mosley, Michael (Micky), 560, 673, 687–9
Mosley, Nicholas (later 3rd Baron Ravensdale), 111 & n, 194, 245, 307, 617–19
Accident, 432
Julian Grenfell, His Life and the Times of his Death, 618 & n
Rules of the Game, 678 & n, 681, 686–90
Mosley, Sir Oswald: affair with Diana, 10–11, 25n, 33
forms British Union of Fascists (BUF), 10
reads Nancy’s Christmas Pudding, 25
and John Sutro, 28
and first wife’s death, 33, 35
BUF meeting at Olympia, 34
affair with Alexandra Metcalfe, 36, 38
children, 38
Diana’s devotion to, 38
links with Nazis, 38
marriage to Diana, 38, 75–7, 104n
addresses Olympia meeting, 46 & n, 444–5
brings libel case against Daily Star, 51 & n
on newsreel, 51n
in Nancy’s Wigs on the Green, 58–60
quarrel with Diana, 78 & n
plans German radio station to broadcast to Britain, 80n, 128n
fishing, 135
imprisoned in war, 144–6, 160, 163, 168, 570
urges followers to resist foreign invasion, 145
released (1943), 146, 193n
Pamela takes in after release from prison, 149
marriage relations with Diana, 157
sues Sunday Pictorial, 168n
joins Diana in Holloway prison, 185 & n, 187
leads Union Movement for centralized Europe, 213
Nancy dislikes, 213, 730
settles in Wiltshire, 213
accused of attempting to seduce Unity, 228–9 & n
post-war political activities and ideas, 245, 318, 611
plans trip to Channel Islands, 250n
moves from Crowood, 254 & n, 264
buys and sails boat, 256 & n
reacquires passport, 257
visits Nancy in Paris, 259
buys and occupies property in Orsay, near Paris, 263–4, 270 & n, 324
buys house in Ireland, 264
contests North Kensington in 1959 general election, 265, 318 & n
holds sex talk with son Alexander, 267
and burning of Clonfert, 282
phlebitis, 295
at Redesdale’s funeral, 306
on Jessica’s memoirs, 312
sues for withdrawal of Irene Ravensdale’s book, 313n
autobiography, 324
gives up politics after failed final attempt to enter Parliament (1966), 324, 452–3 & n, 455–6 & n
requests inspection of ballot papers in 1969 election, 335 & n, 336
post-war attitudes to, 353, 358, 372
relations with Nancy, 377
French radio describes views, 381
sorts papers at Ileclash, 389
rumoured involvement in plot with Nasser, 405–7 & n
visits to South Africa, 406–7, 409, 413–14, 428–9
secret service actions against in Germany, 407–8
interviewed for television, 416, 431, 527n, 611
and Diana’s flu, 419
Skidelsky writes on, 430, 583, 611–12
operation on nose, 435 & n
depicted in BBC programme The Thirties, 444–5 & n
invited to Peregrine Hartington’s coming-of-age party, 447
attempts to have BBC committed for contempt of court for attacks, 451 & n
health worries, 467, 639
interviewed on TV by David Frost, 501 & n
Deborah defends, 519–20
disclaims anti-Semitism, 521
on Nancy’s illness, 531, 539, 545, 577
interviewed on American TV, 572–3
overlooks rubbish in countryside, 584
Parkinson’s disease, 603–4
anti-Semitism, 612, 633, 635n
debates in Oxford Union, 617
opposition to Pryce-Jones’s book on Unity, 633
nominated to stand as Rector of Glasgow University, 645
claims Tom Mitford to have been Fascist, 658n
health decline and death, 671–2, 678–9, 686
affair with Lady Diana Cooper, 673
Nicholas Mosley’s book on, 686–8
maligned by Nancy, 728 & n
Lady Redesdale’s fondness for, 737
and Diana’s caring for Nancy, 763
Europe, Faith and Plan, 307 & n
My Answer, 254n
My Life, 500 & n, 501, 504, 514, 518 & n, 522n
Mosley, Patrick (Max/Jean’s son), 674n
Mosley, Vivien (later Forbes-Adam), 111 & n, 687–9
Mossiker, Frances, 533–4
Mossman, James, 517n
Motley, Lewis, 13n
Mottahedeh, Mildred (née Root), 715
Mouchy, Diane de Castellane, Duchess of, 351 & n
Moulin de la Tuilerie (house), near Paris, 233 & n
Mountbatten, Edwina, Countess, 332
Mountbatten, Admiral Louis, 1st Earl, 494–5
Mouton, Grover III, 714
Mouvement Republicain Populaire, France (MRP), 220
Moyne, Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron (Diana/Bryan’s son) see Guinness, Jonathan
Moyne, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron, 26 & n, 27, 728
Munich Agreement (1938), 41, 137n
Murdo (handyman at Inch Kenneth), 314
Murdock, Pele de Lappe, 734
Murphy, Anthony, 656n
Mürren, Switzerland, 28, 29
Mussolini, Benito, 116 & n, 328
Muv see Redesdale, Sydney, Lady
Nader, Ralph, 755
Nancy Mitford: A Portrait by her Sisters (TV documentary), 657 & n, 659–61, 663–4, 668, 670
US version, 682n
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 405–7
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact (1939), 150n
Nazis: anti-Semitism, 36
Unity embraces, 36–7, 47
Jessica abhors, 40
Parteitag (1935), 64; (1938), 123,134–5
and art, 112n
Neidpath, Catherine, Lady (née Guinness Jonathan’s daughter), 456, 694 & n, 700–1, 712–13
The House of Mitford (with Jonathan), 21n, 681 & n
Neidpath, James, Lord, 700, 713
Neidpath, Richard, 700
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 1st Viscount, 106n
Nevile, Peter, 91 & n, 123
Nevin, Denis, 780
New Party, 10
New York Herald Tribune, 295
Newall, K.W., 71n
Newall, Mary (née Pollen), 70 & n
News Chronicle, 9111, 333–4
Nicolson, Juliet, 801 & n
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br /> Night of the Long Knives, 48n
Nkrumah, Kwame, 378
Noailles, Anne-Jules de, 354n
Noailles, Viscount Charles de, 354 & n
Noailles, Viscountess Marie-Laure de (née Bischoffsheim), 286 & n
Nolde, Emil, 112n
Norfolk, Lavinia, Duchess of (née Strutt), 765
Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 236 & n, 673
Novello, Ivor, 179
Nuremberg trials (1946), 224 & n
Nureyev, Rudolf, 465
Oberammergau: passion play, 50n
Obolensky, Serge, 48n
Observer (newspaper), 572–3, 575
O’Connor, Terence and Cecil (née Cook), 103 & n
Ogilvie-Forbes family, 393
Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 30n, 291, 337 & n, 350n, 399, 436, 465
cancer, 524n, 525
Ogilvy, Sir Angus, 391 & n
Ohnesorge, Wilhelm, 126, 128n
Old Mill Cottage, High Wycombe, 41
Olympia, London, 46 & n, 444–5
Onassis, Jacqueline (earlier Kennedy), 518 & n, 751 & n
Orieux, Jean: Talleyrand ou Le Sphinx incompris, 587
Orléans, Philippe, due d’, Regent of France, 239 & n
Orloff-Davidoff, Count Serge and Countess Elisabeth (née Scott-Ellis), 51 & n
Ormsby-Gore, Mary see Mayall, Mary
Orsay see Temple de la Gloire
Ortaus, Annemarie, 109–10 & n
Orwell, George, 486n, 751
Orwell, Sonia (née Brownell), 485–8, 490–1, 542, 751
Osborne, John: A Patriot for Me, 441n
Osborne, June: marriage to Randolph Churchill, 26n
Oxford Group see Moral Rearmament
Page, Lillian, 521n
Paget, Lady Rose, 273
Palewski, Gaston (‘the Colonel’): Nancy meets, 145
relations with Nancy, 211, 215–17 & n, 219–21, 223, 226–7, 230, 233, 237–9 255, 263–4, 380, 483
in Nancy’s Pursuit of Love, 212
abscess in spinal column, 221
writes articles for Randolph Churchill, 224
attacked in Aurore, 228
attacks Tharaud, 233
mother’s illness, 242
on March of Time newsreel, 243
Nancy considers marriage to, 246–7
fainting fit, 249
political speechmaking, 249
as ambassador to Rome, 263, 316, 349
liaison and marriage with Violette de Pourtalès, 263, 469, 526, 528
on success of Nancy’s books, 323
as Minister for Scientific Research, 324
romantic attachments, 324, 402 & n
suggests Nancy write novel, 387
visits Washington, 398
warns Nancy of Mosley’s supposed plot with Nasser, 405 & n, 407
meets Jessica, 420
sees Khrushchev, 422
appointed head of Constitutional Council, 436 & n
gives parties for de Gaulle, 462, 492
on Mitford writings, 507
visits Diana and Mosley, 514
favours not telling Nancy about cancer, 538
in Harold Acton memoir, 609
protests at being unmentioned in Nancy’s will, 653
in TV film about Nancy, 659, 663
meets Pope, 663
makes advances to Selina Hastings, 673
death, 699
treatment of Nancy, 702–3
Palffy-Erdödy, Countess Francesca (‘Baby’), 97 & n, 124
Palffy-Erdödy, Count François-de-Paul, 460n
Palffy-Erdödy, Countess Johanna (‘Jimmy’), 98n, 560
Panorama (TV programme), 502, 517–18
Papasin, Consuelo (Elo), 790
Papon, Maurice, 334
Paris: Diana studies in, 9, 14n
Jessica spends year in, 33, 39
Jessica visits with mother and Deborah, 66–7
Nancy lives in, 212, 215–17, 237–9, 248
social life, 226–7
Nancy moves to flat in rue Monsieur, 240 & n
strikes, 241n
May 1968 uprisings, 511 & n, 512n, 515n
Parker-Bowles, Derek, 368, 432, 621
Parsons, Lady Bridget, 335 & n
Partridge, Frances: Everything to Lose, 708
Partridge, Ralph, 456 & n
Pasquier, Eric, 653
Pasquier, Maurice, 653
Pasture, Mrs Henry de la: The Unlucky Family, 351
Paulain, Madame, 39
Pawson, Algernon (‘Tony’), 305 & n
Paxton, Sir Joseph, 726
Peart, Frederick, 614
Penn, Joan (later Bowles), 22n
Penrose, Derrick, 785
Penrose, James, 504 & n
Perkin, Miss (supposed governess), 672
Peterson, Ronnie, 568–9 & n
Phelps (American tenant of Swinbrook cottage), 557 & n
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 239n, 404, 541n, 614, 695, 765, 780
Phillimore, Miles, 109–11 & n
Phillips, Georgina (née Wernher), 92 & n, 93
Phillips, Harold, 92n
Picasso, Pablo, 432
Pietra, La, Florence, 608
Piggott, Lester, 540
Plante, David, 751
Plantin, Constant, 587
Pleydell-Bouverie, Audrey see James, Audrey Evelyn
Pol-Roger, Odette (née Wallace), 227 & n
Pomereu, Lydie, Marchioness of (née d’Harcourt), 460–1 & n, 671, 679
Pompadour, Madame de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de), 263, 279 & n
Pontresina, Switzerland, 20, 21
Portland, William Cavendish Bentinck, 7th Duke and Ivy, Duchess of (née Gordon-Lennox), 572
Portland, Winifred, Duchess of, 449
Pourtalès, Violette de (later Palewski), 263, 402n, 479, 526, 663
Powell, Enoch, 576
Prague, 516, 520
Presley, Elvis, 302 & n, 777–8
Presley, Priscilla, 777
Preston, Stuart (‘the Sergeant’), 236 & n
Price, George Ward, 116 & n
Profumo, John, 390 & n, 399, 402n, 735
Proust, Marcel, 784 & n
Pryce-Jones, Alan, 546
Pryce-Jones, David, 545 & n, 546–8, 620
biography of Unity, 603, 605–6, 617, 623–7, 629, 631–4, 637
Prynne, Lesley and Dorothy (née Slim), 388 & n
Pulitzer, Joseph, 291
Pushkin, Alexander, 488
Quandt, Gunther, 76n
Quandt, Harald, 115
Quennell, Peter: The Marble Foot, 761
The Sign of the Fish, 339
Quinton, Anthony, 332n
Radziwill, Dolly see Tvede, Dolores
Radziwill, Princess Grace (née Kolin
then Countess of Dudley), 287 & n, 386, 582
Rainbird, George, 470
Ramsay, Captain: Right Club, 164n
Ramsbotham, Peter, 74, 99, 107
Rattenbury, Alma, 157 & n
Raven, Simon, 653n, 655
Ravensdale, Irene, Lady (Auntie Ni): In Many Rhythms, 312 & n, 583, 688
Raymond, Verity (later Mosley), 111n
Reagan, Ronald, 428
Redbook (magazine), 443
Redé, Alexis de, 541 & n
Redesdale Cottage, Northumberland, 211, 243
Redesdale, Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron: xv, 516 & n, 588n
The Attaché in Peking, 681 & n
Redesdale, Bertram Mitford, 3rd Baron (Uncle Tommy), 330 & n, 331, 336
Redesdale, David Mitford, 2nd Baron (Mitford sisters’ father
Farve): homes, 3–4
appearance and character, 4
relations with children, 4–5
opposes education for daughters, 5–6
believes Asthall haunted, 13n
prospects for gold in Canada, 17n, 19
skating, 20n
admires Germany, 37
sells Sw
inbrook, 41
fury at Diana’s taking Unity to Nazi Party Congress, 43n
and Jessica’s elopement, 81, 86
attends George VI’s coronation, 94n
life at Swinbrook, 102
fishing on Windrush, 103n
at The Lady, 106
sympathetic view of Nazism, 123n
on Inch Kenneth, 143, 162, 202, 311
marriage difficulties and separation, 143, 149, 620
takes Margaret Wright as companion, 143, 165, 203n, 211, 248, 300
turns against Germany, 143, 151
punishes Deborah, 157
visits Southend, 165
at Deborah’s wedding, 174
attitude to Unity, 180, 203, 219
and death of son Tom, 205–6, 211
separates from wife and retreats to Redesdale Cottage, Northumberland, 211
portrayed as Uncle Matthew in Nancy’s Pursuit of Love, 212
sells furniture, 236 & n
disparages Peter Watson, 237n
breaks pelvis, 253n
death and funeral (1958), 266, 306, 307n
Jessica fails to meet on visit from USA, 266
will, 266, 307n, 663
attends cocktail parties in Northumberland, 270
golden wedding, 278–9
Nancy visits, 283
decline, 286, 300
Deborah visits, 300
in Jessica’s Hons and Rebels, 331, 335–6
in Nancy’s Don’t Tell Alfred, 340
at Swinbrook, 342, 709–10
photograph of ‘double’, 374, 379
pursues Michael Bowles, 500
objects to Diana marrying Mosley, 537
letter on Unity’s death, 683
chairs House of Lords Drains Committee, 710n
in Nancy’s account of visit to Mosley, 728 & n
sued for slander, 794–5
softens with age, 797
temper, 801
Redesdale, John Mitford, 4th Baron (Uncle Jack Jicksy), 336 & n, 432n, 560 & n
Redesdale, Sydney, Lady (née Bowles
Mitford sisters’ mother Muv): character, 4
and children’s education, 5–6
love for children, 5
sends Unity away to school, 11
prospecting in Canada, 17n, 18n, 19
skating, 20n, 21
admires Nazism and Hitler, 37, 143, 151
attends Jessica’s marriage to Romilly, 40, 92, 99
Deborah’s relations with, 41
protests at Diana taking Unity to Nazi Congress, 43n
in Munich, 49, 54
refuses to salute Nazi memorial in Munich, 49
sends Deborah to school, 51n
takes Unity, Jessica and Deborah on Mediterranean cultural cruise, 71n
and Jessica’s elopement, 81, 85–6
attends George VI’s coronation, 94 & n
forename, 99n
eccentric remarks, 101–2
admires Nelson, 106
Deborah mocks, 106
reading, 106
in Bayreuth, 134
marriage difficulties and separation, 143, 620