The Mitfords
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recovers Unity from Switzerland after suicide attempt, 143
writes to Jessica in USA, 148
hostility to communists, 152
Deborah swears at, 157
visits Diana in prison, 160, 163, 167, 191
and Deborah’s wedding, 172–4
cares for Unity, 180, 218–19, 230, 245, 251
and Nancy’s operation for removal of ovaries, 184
at Inch Kenneth, 202, 246, 266, 313, 342, 367, 368, 371n
and death of son Tom in Burma, 205–6, 211, 229
separation from husband, 211
sisters agree to hand over Inch Kenneth for lifetime, 213
visits Jessica in USA, 213–14, 245, 565
Deborah entertains at Christmas (1946), 231
consults Cairns about Unity’s suicide attempt, 247n
view of husband, 248
and Unity’s death, 251–2
contributes to annual allowance for Jessica, 266
Jessica visits on Inch Kenneth, 266, 371–2
proposes smuggling items to sell in USA, 275 & n
golden wedding, 278
liking for Aranka Kliot, 280
visits Rudi von Simolin, 301n
at husband’s funeral, 306
Parkinson’s disease, 317 & n, 342
health decline and death, 323, 365, 392–6, 427–8
and Jessica’s Hons and Rebels, 331, 333, 335–6, 566n
busy activities, 336
Nancy blames for inability to have children, 357n
carol-singing in Harrods Bank, 361
Nancy depicts as neglectful mother, 376 & n, 377–8
injured in car accident, 382 & n
funeral, 395
Deborah finds letters from sisters, 423
papers kept at Chatsworth, 481
fondness for Mosley, 537
Nancy’s feelings for, 554, 557–8, 562, 564–5
Jessica’s feelings for, 555, 564–5
Deborah on relations with, 559
in Diana’s memoirs, 619
and Nancy’s view of Hitler, 637–8
provoked by Nancy, 638
letter to Jessica on elopement, 795–7
strictness with children, 800–1
Redgrave, Vanessa, 508
Redl, Colonel, 440 & n
Regulation 18B see Defence Regulation 18B
Rémy, Colonel (i.e. Gilbert Renault): Mémoires d’un agent secret de la France libre, 233
Renard, Marie (Nancy’s cook), 240 & n, 244, 246, 255, 277, 290, 359, 481, 481–4, 489, 527, 531–2
retires, 535–6
Pamela visits, 541
visits sick Nancy, 577, 589
Rennell, Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron, 515
Rennell, James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron, 64, 65n, 183
Rennell, Lilias, Lady (née Guthrie), 65n, 181, 183, 206
Renta, Oscar and Annette de la (née Reid), 767, 777, 799
Reventlow see Haugwitz-Reventlow
Reves, Wendy (née Russell), 462 & n
Rhodesia, 446–7, 618
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 56, 58n, 69, 77n, 134n
Rice, Edward, 503, 560
Rice-Davies, Mandy, 399
Richards, Brooks, 333
Richardson, Natasha, 714
Richardson (of Duntisbourne), Gordon, Baron, 740
Richardson, Tony, 714
Riddell, Enid, 163 & n
Ridley, Jasper, 445n
Rignell House, Oxfordshire, 35, 144, 146, 148, 155, 192, 214, 578, 709
Roberts, Hugh and Jane (née Low), 799 & n
Rodd, Peter (‘Prod’): background and character, 33
engagement and marriage to Nancy, 33–4, 44n, 45
searches for Jessica after elopement, 40, 80, 83n, 85, 88
Christmas present from Deborah, 52
affair with Mary Sewell, 73n
declines invitation to German ambassador’s, 97
on impropriety of Jessica’s attachment to Romilly, 107
military service, 144, 151–2, 171, 176,180–1, 184
conversation, 195, 200
returns to England from Italy (1944), 200
and mother’s will, 206–7
visits Redesdale after death of Tom Mitford, 206
film of Sudan, 236
in Paris with Nancy, 247, 252–3
suicide pills, 248
visits England from France, 248
liaison with Adelaide Lubbock, 254
divorce from Nancy, 263
lung removed, 305
letters, 457
death, 515 & n
Rödel, Jeanne, 702
Rodzianko, Paul, 207n
Rohm, Ernst, 47–8 & n, 49
Rome: Nancy and Rodd honeymoon in, 44
Romilly, Bertram, 95 & n
Romilly, Constancia (later Weber Jessica’s daughter; ‘Dink/y’; ‘Donk’): birth, 175 & n, 180
childhood, 196,198; Nancy leaves diamond brooch to, 200n
threatens to run away, 200 & n
in USA, 207
and Jessica’s reaction to Unity’s death, 211
invites Lady Redesdale to visit in USA, 213
wariness of Nancy, 241
and mother’s plans for visit to Europe, 269
Deborah meets in USA, 276–7
Nancy proposes to leave goods to, 280
on visit to Europe (1955), 285
in Mexico City at time of earthquake, 298 & n
and grandmother’s death, 396
baby by James Forman, 485–8, 490–1, 493, 496, 507 & n
pet dog, 497 & n
second child by Forman, 542 & n
marriage to Terry Weber, 662 & n
visits mother, 736
attends dying mother, 767–9, 771, 773
Romilly, Esmond: elopement and marriage with Jessica, 35, 39–40, 80–1, 82, 86, 91n, 96, 97, 796
leaves for USA, 41
Deborah dislikes, 42, 796–7
attitude to Unity, 85
appearance, 87
view of Fascists, 90
on public school life, 106
works as advertising copywriter, 121n
death in action (1941), 147–8, 185 & n, 328, 796
in USA, 147, 154
joins air force, 166
in Canada, 176
in Jessica’s Hons and Rebels, 328, 330n, 331
in Philip Toynbee’s Friends Apart, 445n
fondness for Tom Mitford, 522
Boadilla, 542
Out of Bounds (with Giles Romilly), 39
Romilly, Giles: suicide, 496 & n
Out of Bounds (with Esmond Romilly), 39
Romilly, Jessica see Treuhaft, Jessica
Romilly, Julia (Jessica-Esmond’s daughter): birth, 121n
death, 123n
Romilly, Nellie (née Hozier), 39, 95, 549, 556
Rookery, The (on Devonshires’ estate), 149, 198
Rosa (waitress at Osteria Bavaria), 63, 68
Rose Cottage, near Chiswick, 33
Rosebery, Albert Edward Primrose, 6th Earl of, 293
Rothenstein, Sir John, 316, 418
Rothschild, Jacob, 4th Baron and Serena, Lady (née Dunn), 767
Rothschild, Liliane de, Baroness, 590–1
Rothwell (farm manager), 689
Rougemont, Laure de (later Princesse de Beauvau-Craon), 218n
Roussin, André: The Little Hut (translated by Nancy), 263, 270, 441n
Les oeufs de l’autruche, 258
Roxburghe, George Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of, 540
Roy, Harry, 796
Royal Academy: ‘Treasures of Chatsworth’ exhibition, 666
Royal Smithfield Show (1975), 614–15
Rudkin, Mark, 454
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, 793
Russell, Bertrand, 228 & n
Russell, Lady Patricia (née Blackwood), 560–1
Russia: Nancy visits, 279, 281
Rutland Gate, London, 4, 91–2, 165
Sachs, Sir Eric (Mr J
ustice), 451
Sackville-West, Edward, 211, 296–7 & n, 340, 342
death, 436 & n
Sagan, Françoise, 305 & n
Sagan, Violette de Talleyrand Périgord, Duchess of see Pourtalès, Violette de
Saint, Charles, 426
St Clair-Erskine, Hamish: relations with Nancy, 7, 9, 20 & n, 22, 33, 272, 570, 729n, 738
Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Due de, 290 & n
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 5th Marquess of (‘Bobbety’), 433 & n
Salmon, Rosemary (later Mosley), 111n
Sandys, Duncan (later Baron Duncan-Sandys), 366, 463n
Sanègre, Georges and Ofélia, 712
Santo Domingo, Marquess of, 273
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 587
Sauguet, Henri, 244 & n, 622
Scarsdale, Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount, 568
Schaub, Julius, 126, 128n
Scherman, David, 471
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 348
Schiller, Friedrich von: Die Jungfrau von Orleans, 169
Schlageter, Leo, 115
Schleicher, Kurt von, 47 & n
Schmeling, Max, 68 & n
Scholtz-Klink, Gertrud, 79
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 122 & n
Scott, Norman, 656 & n
Second World War (1939–45): outbreak, 138–9
Sefton, Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of, 540
‘Sem’ see Goursat, Georges
Séréza, Vanda (‘Zella’), 290 & n
Sewell, Anthony, 73n
Sewell, Brian, 463
Sewell, Mary (née Lutyens), 73 & n
Seyres, M. de, 219
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 130 & n
Sézille, Mme (dressmaker), 286
Shaw, George Bernard, 193
Shell, Henrietta (Mrs John Stewart; ‘Tello’), 98 & n, 153 & n
Sherrin, Ned, 669–71
Sherwood, Dr, 610–11
Sherwood, Hugh, 227 & n
Sherwood, Patricia (née Chetwode), 227n
Shimwell, Alan, 799
Shultz, George, 705 & n
Siffert, Jo, 560
Sigrid (Nancy’s ex-maid), 222n, 330
Silcock, Lieut.-Colonel John and Juliet (‘the Wonderfuls’), 310
Simolin, Rudolfine von (later Saint Paul; ‘Rudi’), 264, 301 & n, 748
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 308
Sitwell, Georgia (née Doble), 155
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 308, 320n, 787
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 155 & n, 788
Skelton, Barbara, 434 & n
Skidelsky, Robert: visits Diana in Orsay, 430, 498–9, 502
watches Mosley interview on TV, 501
describes Mosley’s TV appearance, 611
condemns Mosley’s anti-Semitism, 612
television series on Thirties, 671
friendship with Diana, 803
Oswald Mosley, 583 & n, 611–12, 633 & n
Politicians and the Slump, 502n
Slade, Julian, 438, 492
Slade School of Fine Art, 14n
Slim, Field Marshal William, 1st Viscount, 414
Smith Act (USA), 276n
Smith, David, 374, 379n
Smith, Ian, 447n
Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 374, 664
Social Democratic Party: Andrew Devonshire joins, 687n
Sonja, Queen of Norway, 799
Sound of Music, The (film), 443n
South Africa: Mosleys visit, 406–7, 409–10, 413, 428, 603
Pamela winters in, 720
Southern, Terry: The Magic Christian, 428
Soviet Union: as threat, 248
Spanish Civil War, 74
Spectator (journal), 707n, 711
Speer, Albert, 75
Spock, Benjamin, 481, 508, 516 & n
Stadelmann, Julius, 56, 68–9
Stalin, Josef, 234, 791
Stanley of Alderley family, 228 & n
Stanley, Alice, 136
Stephens, Ellen (‘Diddy’), 201, 314, 377
Stevens, Miss (hairdresser), 173
Stevenson, Adlai, 362
Stewart, Jackie, 569
Stewart, Mrs John see Shell, Henrietta
Stewart, Madeleine (‘Madeau’), 153 & n, 397, 545, 660, 700, 720
Stewart, Oliver, 154n
Stirling, Archibald and Charmian, 449 & n
Stirling, Margaret, 450 & n
Stirling, Colonel William, 343, 449 & n
Stobie, Mrs (Lady Redesdale’s cook), 218
Stokes, Richard, 169n
Strachey, Lytton: friendship with Mitfords, xv
death, 23n
in Sitwells’ anecdote, 156
in love with Dora Carrington, 456 & n
friendship with Diana, 457, 569
Diana proposes to write on, 760–1
Streicher, Julius, 623, 633
Strindberg, August: The Road to Damascus, 710
Stuart, John (‘Stavros Niarchos’), 368 & n, 410
Stuart-Wortley, Violet (née Guthrie), 562 & n
Sudetenland, 130–1
Sunday Express, 521
Sunday Pictorial: Mosleys sue, 167n
Sunday Telegraph, 764
Sunday Times: Nancy writes for, 263, 278, 377, 382n
picture of Nancy in, 551
Sutro, John, 26 & n, 28, 224 & n, 524
Swash, Michael, 677 & n
Swinbrook House, Oxfordshire: Redesdale builds and occupies, 3
Diana dislikes and leaves, 9
Jessica describes, 11
Deborah’s fondness for, 41, 102, 580
sold, 41, 559, 579 & n
memorial to Redesdale, 342
Nancy buried at, 594–6
grave headstones damaged, 615
Pamela buys cottage in, 648
Diana stays in cottage, 709–10 & n
Deborah revisits, 779
Diana buried at, 804
Sykes, Christopher, 484
Sykes, Christopher Simon, 799
Tarmac plc, 697
Tattersall, Colonel, 414, 510
Tavistock Restitution of Conjugal Rights case (1935), 794
Taylor, A.J.P., 581
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 282
Temple de la Gloire (house), Orsay, France, 264, 271n, 282, 324, 400, 416, 456, 708 & n, 755, 787
Tennant, Lady Emma (née Cavendish Deborah’s daughter): birth, 149
childhood, 190, 198, 199, 205, 219
as bridesmaid, 225
and Jessica’s 1950 planned visit with children, 269
interviewed at Oxford, 295–6
passes maths exam, 302
attends W.I. party with mother, 303
visits Urquharts, 308
mother gives ball for, 354n
and Feray brothers, 370
marriage and honeymoon, 400–1 & n
inherits grandmother’s card table, 402
Deborah visits in Argentina, 445n
returns from Argentina, 450 & n
at Peregrine’s wedding, 494
education, 685
inherits Pamela’s house, 745
obituary of Pamela, 750 & n
Tennant, Emma (novelist), 685 & n
Tennant, Sir Iain, 93n
Tennant, Isabel (Emma’s daughter), 421n, 442 & n, 698
Tennant, Margaret, Lady (née Lady Margaret Ogilvy; ‘Maggot’), 93 & n, 99, 225
Tennant, Stella (Emma’s daughter), 580 & n, 719
Tennant, Stephen, 284
Tennant, Toby, 402n, 451n, 513, 752
Teresa, Mother, 757
Tharaud, Jean, 233
Thatcher, Carol, 694
Thatcher, Denis, 765, 781
Thatcher, Margaret, 614–15, 641, 725, 765, 780
This Week (TV programme), 416
Thomas, Hugh, 542
Thompson, Flora: Lark Rise to Candleford, 586
Thompson, John and Christine, 776
Thorpe, Jeremy, 584,
656n
Thyssen, Baroness, 420n
Time magazine, 481
Times, The: on Bowles, xv
obituary of Nancy, 595, 597
Times Literary Supplement, 335, 337
Timms, Mrs (Redesdale’s foreman’s wife), 157
Timms, Pam, 179
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, 250
Tobin, Madeleine see Bowles, Madeleine
Tomlin, Stephen, 760
Tommasi, Giuditta, 264, 301, 324, 377, 539, 748–9
death, 733 & n
Tone, Franchot, 100
Townsend, Group Captain Peter, 287n
Toynbee, Frances (née Smith Sally), 636 & n
Toynbee, Philip, 166 & n, 444, 496, 542, 604, 629, 633, 636–7, 752
Friends Apart, 445n
Toynbee, Polly, 685
Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition, Washington (1985), 705 Tree, Lady Anne (née Cavendish; ‘Tig’), 158n, 180n, 195, 218, 220n, 255 & n, 273, 418, 656, 792n
Tree, Marietta (née Peabody), 158n
Tree, Michael, 158n, 180n, 792–3
Tree, Ronald, 157 & n
Trefusis, Violet (née Keppel), 205, 222, 224, 231n, 232, 305, 327
Treuhaft, Aranka (Robert’s mother) see Kliot, Aranka
Treuhaft, Benjamin (Jessica’s son): birth, 241
and mother’s planned 1950 visit to Europe, 269
visits Europe (1959), 317
in France, 420 & n
at college in USA, 441
telephones Deborah, 654
bipolar disorder, 656 & n
exports pianos to Cuba, 771
TREUHAFT, JESSICA (née Mitford; then Romilly): estrangement from Diana, xvi, 40, 59, 148, 607, 638, 670, 704, 755
political ideas, xvi, 40, 145, 148, 265
will, xvii
on father, 4
home education, 5–6
rebelliousness, 11–12
socialism/communism, 12, 148
private language (‘Boudledidge’), 15n
spends year in Paris, 33, 39
elopement and marriage with Romilly, 35, 39–41, 80–1 & n, 82, 87–8, 91n, 92, 94–5, 96, 97, 796, & n
as debutante, 39, 71
relations with Deborah, 41–2
on unhappy childhood, 41
Diana sends money to, 42
in Germany, 50
pictured, 59, 472, 592
tours Germany with Unity, 62, 63n
writes in Honnish language, 62
visits to Paris, 66–7
holiday in Brittany, 72–3 & n
on Mediterranean cruise, 72n
parents visit, 85
lists weddings presents, 98–9
pregnancy and child, 107, 121 & n, 123n
death of first baby, 123n, 643, 797
Nancy attacks for living in America, 144
denounces Diana and Mosley in war, 146, 148
and Esmond’s death in action, 147–8, 185 & n, 265
in USA, 147–8, 154, 196
meets and marries Treuhaft, 148, 191 & n
birth of children, 175–6, 197–8, 241
visits Esmond in Canada, 176
works at Office of Price Administration, 192n