Editor Charlotte Mosley and Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, talks about her life and her eccentric family. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from her childhood to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage, to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. She also discusses her friendship and a lifelong correspondence with writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor, which she collected in her book In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Comments [4]
@DarkSymbolist, absolutely not. Diana remained firmly and unrepetantly fascist with nazi sympathies and anti-semetic views her whole life. I am baffled by the Diana apologists. Sure she was beautiful and charming and awww just so lovable. She was married in front of Hitler for Chrissakes
Her actions and words speak for themselves!
(in regard to Diana's Nazi sympathies)
"....because politics...talk of politics...was VERBOTEN"
Nice one Leonard!
Let's talk about Unity...
And quite frankly, I don't think there was any ambiguity or question about Diana's views
This a remarkable family.
The first of half the last century truely was a dynamic time; new social and political ideas were springing everywhere. These women and their brother were of the time and defined the the time with their talent, humor, inventiveness and curiousity.
I've read their books and a some biographies.
I've twice visited the church at Swinbrook and enjoyed the looks my traveling companions have at seeing the reclining Redesdales. I was sadden on my second visit to see that Diana had joined her siblings.
Thank you for visiting the states!
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