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The Mitford family in 1928. The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family who became particularly well-known in the 1930s for the six Mitford sisters, the daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife, Sydney Bowles. [a] They were celebrated and sometimes scandalous figures.
Diana Mitford was the fourth child and third daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), and his wife Sydney (1880–1963). [10] She was a first cousin once removed of Clementine Churchill, [11] second cousin of Sir Angus Ogilvy, and first cousin, twice removed, of Bertrand Russell. [12]
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007), edited by Charlotte Mosley, ISBN 0-06-137364-8; In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley; Home to Roost . . . and Other Peckings (2009) Wait for Me!... Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister (2010) All in One Basket (2011)
Titled Outrageous, the series is being written by Sarah Williams, based on Mary S. Lovell’s biography The Mitford Girls, and promises to "bring the full, uncensored story of the Mitford sisters ...
Nancy Freeman-Mitford [n 1] CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is ...
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British fascist and socialite and member of the Mitford family known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in the United Kingdom and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism , fascism and antisemitism , and belonged to Hitler's inner circle of friends.
Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.
Pamela Freeman-Mitford was born on 25 November 1907, the second daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles (1880–1963).. John Betjeman, who for a time was in love with her, referred to her in his unpublished poem, "The Mitford Girls", as the "most rural of them all" since she preferred to live quietly in the country.