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...male figure smiling uneasily in the midst of these splendid figures is a male Mitford of whom nobody has ever heard. He is Tom, a barrister who was killed in Burma...
...glowering on the left would be Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, usually described in the tabloids as Hitler's girl friend. That would explain why she is standing, as Hitler did when he was not saluting, with her hands clasped just below her midriff. Unity shot herself in 1939 under still obscure circumstances and was invalided back home to England (the author says she was despondent over the outbreak of the war, but rumors were that she had been rejected by Hitler...
Next, Deborah, scowling prettily in jodhpurs, would be the Mitford who married a duke-not just any duke, but the Duke of Devonshire who still swings a lot of weight in England...
...Mitford on the far right, Pamela, was so fond of horses she married a sometime jockey...
Life with Farve. Having passed or flunked a Mitford quiz along these lines, the reader may find any residual curiosity about the family amply answered in Daughters and Rebels, Jessica's sprightly chronicle. Some things should be settled first. What was Hitler's reaction to Jessica's elopement with Romilly when Unity told the Fuhrer, "My sister Decca has run away to Spain with the Reds"? Hitler sank his head in his hands. "Armes Kind!"1 (poor child), he sighed. What did Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, do? He dispatched a destroyer to try to break...