It was in 1934 that Diana first went to Germany with Unity. He took Diana as his lover while refusing to leave his wife, Cynthia until she died in 1933. At the time, Mosley was still married and had just become the head of the British Union of Fascists. In early, 1932, Diana Mitford first met Oswald Mosley. If you’re not familiar, a brief rundown is as follows, in order of age: Nancy, a novelist, with a satirical, biting wit Pamela, a countrywoman at heart, the rock of them all Diana, of which, more later Unity, who became obsessed with Hitler and attempted to shoot herself on the outbreak of war Jessica, who eloped with their Communist cousin and, Deborah, who became the Duchess of Devonshire and chatelaine of one of Britain’s greatest houses, Chatsworth. Each of the six Mitford sisters was fascinating in her own way, each representing a different facet of that fast-moving, giddy, highly politicized time. And yet she was also a fascist, jailed for the dangerousness of her beliefs during the second world war. Indeed, reading some of her letters-the six sisters wrote to each other frequently, sometimes daily, across several decades-shows a woman who is loyal to her family, bewildered by the spiky jibes of her oldest sister Nancy (the novelist, the one you’d most like to go for a Whisky Sour with), adoring of her husband and children.
Diana Mitford herself would churn out an autobiography called”A Life Of Contrasts”, in 1970.Īs points out, she was not a dangerous woman in the more straightforwardly criminal sense. Her childhood and that of her siblings are quite well documented, thanks in large part to sister Jessica’s (“Decca’s”) autobiographical “ Hons and Rebels“. Diana, or “Honks”, as was her moniker, was born June 10th, 1910 in Westminster, London. Her close friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her that “She was the nearest thing to Botticelli’s Venus that I have ever seen”.Īll the Mitford sisters had nicknames and seemed to adopt something like a linguistic microclimate in conversation. One of, and arguably the most well-known, of the Mitford Sisters, Diana was also regarded as the most beautiful of her siblings.
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