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...British refugee in Germany remained beauteous, Nazi-struck Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...
Blonde British Naziphile the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, "ideal Nordic woman" friend of A. Hitler, was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers...
Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming, Baron Redesdale made Decca a ward in chancery, thus making it illegal for any Englishman to marry her without the High Court's consent. Decca and Esmond cocked a long-distance snook, cried: "We both regard marriage mainly as a convenience. . . ." (Few months later they compromised with convention...
Princess Stephanie, born Stephanie Richter, is reportedly the daughter of Jewish parents. Many of the Führer's British friends, particularly famed Unity Freeman-Mitford, have protested that a Jewess, however valuable, is no friend for Hitler to have...
...hrer reputedly assured Friend Freeman-Mitford some time ago that he would investigate the Princess' parentage. What he found has not been revealed but, at any rate, his portrait, inscribed "To my dear Princess," still adorns the desk of Princess Stephanie's London flat...