Person:Diana Mitford (1)

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Diana Mitford
b.17 Jun 1910
d.11 Aug 2003
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  1. Nancy Mitford1904 - 1973
  2. Pamela Mitford1907 - 1994
  3. Thomas Mitford1909 - 1945
  4. Diana Mitford1910 - 2003
  5. Unity Mitford1914 - 1948
  6. Jessica Mitford1917 - 1996
  7. Deborah Freeman-Mitford1920 - 2014
Spouse and Children
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  1. Jonathan Guinness1930 -
  2. Desmond Guinness1931 -
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  1. Max Rufus Mosley1940 -
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Name Diana Mitford
Gender Female
Birth[1] 17 Jun 1910
Marriage to Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
Marriage to Oswald Mosley
Death[1] 11 Aug 2003
Reference Number? Q462574?


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Diana, Lady Mosley (née Freeman-Mitford; 17 June 191011 August 2003) was one of the Mitford sisters. In 1929 she married Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, with whom she was part of the Bright Young Things social group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. Her marriage ended in divorce as she was pursuing a relationship with Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists. In 1936, she married Mosley at the home of the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honour.

Her involvement with fascist political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War, when Britain was at war with the fascist regime of Nazi Germany. She later moved to Paris and enjoyed some success as a writer. In the 1950s, she contributed diaries to Tatler and edited the magazine The European. In 1977, she published her autobiography, A Life of Contrasts, and two more biographies in the 1980s.

Mosley's 1989 appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs was controversial due to her Holocaust denial and admiration of Hitler. She was also a regular book reviewer for Books and Bookmen and later at The Evening Standard in the 1990s. A family friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her beauty, "She was the nearest thing to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen". She was described as "unrepentant" about her previous political associations by obituary writers such as the historian Andrew Roberts.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Diana Mitford, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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