The mitford sisters

"Debo," the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, has died aged 94

"Debo," the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, has died aged 94

Take six girls, all of them rampant individualists, and let them loose upon one of the most politically explosive periods in history. That is the story of the Mitfords. It is like a social experime…

The show promises to bring “the full, uncensored story" of the scandalous siblings to TV for the first time.

Here I give you a whiff of the six Mitford sisters, five of which came to either prominence or notoriety and thus became part of 20th century history: The parents of the Mitford sisters, David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife Sydney Bowles, were described as handsome, eccentric, cold and remote. The Mitford children (six girls and a boy) grew up in relatively moderate circumstances deep in rural Oxfordshire. The parents didn't believe in education for girls…

The formidable 20th century sisters who each forged their own path lived in some marvellous historic abodes between Ireland, Oxfordshire and France – here Tatler chronicles the finest

Deborah Cavendish (AKA the The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire), is the youngest and last surviving member of the six Mitford sisters, and at 90 is publishing her memoirs

Passion, prison, rebellion, Nazis: the aristocrats’ wild public and private lives power a new series.

Nancy Mitford was one of the Bright Young Things—a carefree gang of upper-class creatures who partied and shrieked their way through 1920s London. “We hardly ever saw the light of day, exce…

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