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...“We, the youth of Britain, have finer, more noble things in our lives than rock and roll,” a member of the minuscule youth wing of Oswald Mosley’s fascist Union Movement declared in 1956....
...As the youngest Mitford, she was the baby sister, always trying to catch up with the others: Nancy, the scathingly witty novelist; Diana, the sapphire-blue-eyed beauty who left her husband for Oswald Mosley...
...fascism of Sir Oswald Mosley, her brother-in-law....
...Dubbed “Nine” by her brutally teasing sister Nancy (who claimed that was Debo’s mental age), she was ribbed about her girlhood dreams of a grand marriage....
...“Nancy Browne looked a fine, healthy specimen of an English woman but it was obvious that the deaths of these people meant absolutely nothing to her.”...
...The novel, which satirised a group of British fascists – the “union jackshirts” she called them – caused a terrible family row; two of her sisters, Diana (married to Oswald Mosley, leader of the Blackshirts...
...published in 1934 as “Two Dictators”, which Mosley renamed “the governess and the gorilla.”...
...But since the 1920s the girls had been making the society pages and even the news: Nancy at another Bright Young Things fancy-dress party; Diana leaving her well-connected young husband for Sir Oswald Mosley...
...Her shop is run like a salon, with an amusingly chaotic mood not dissimilar to the Curzon Street bookshop Heywood Hill, which Nancy Mitford famously turned into Mayfair’s social hub during the Blitz....
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