The Mitford Sisters
Dedicated to the most scandalous bunch of sisters of the 20th century. Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover, Nancy the Novelist, Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur.
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4thAugSat
Diana, Pamela and Deborah.
10thJunSun
“ I don’t suppose you saw Kit [Diana’s husband] on telly the other day (Thames) anyway Robert Skidelsky wrote him a letter saying that it gave an impression of someone with megalomania. The letter made me SCREAM & Kit said ‘Did you think I seemed like a megalomaniac?’ and I said ‘Well I’m so used to you being one that I simply don’t notice it anymore.’ ”
- Diana Mitford Mosley in a letter to her sister Deborah, excerpt from The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (via baptisms-)
Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah Mitford (the famous Mitford sisters) sketched by the artist William Acton sometime during the early 1930’s.
24thMayThu
“ Diana’s way of talking was unique. One day when she was driving with Sir O along the Riviera he had to turn the car round, which involved backing it dangerously close to the cliff. ‘Vaguely whoa,’ was all she said quietly as he got nearer and nearer to the edge. ”
- Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire describing her sister Diana in Wait for Me! (via baptisms-)
24thMarSat
“ It’s no good pretending that winning isn’t marvellous, I speak as a life-long loser. ”
- Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, in a letter to her sister Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (via acockeyedoptimist)
24thMarSat
“ In the nineteen-sixties when very short skirts were the fashion, Nancy said, “Now we shall have to choose whether to be dowdy or ridiculous.”
“ In the nineteen-sixties when very short skirts were the fashion, Nancy said, “Now we shall have to choose whether to be dowdy or ridiculous.”
“Which will you choose?” I asked.
“Oh, ridiculous of course,” she replied. ”
- Diana Mitford (via ancientqueen)
22ndMarThu
Diana Mosley (née Freeman-Mitford), 1935
21stMarWed
Diana Mosley nee Diana Mitford by Madame Yevonde.
Here another of the photoshoot via NPG
18thMarSun
Diana Mitford, at age 22.
