![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The girls' lives were the stuff of headlines. The Mitfords' unconventional childhood and adolescence, growing up in a rambling country manor, deprived of formal education and at the mercy of their father's titanic rages and obsessions, has long been immortalised in Nancy's masterly comedies of aristocratic manners, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. But Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo, were, and are, far from ordinary. Even if the six daughters, born between 19, of the charming, eccentric David, Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney had been quite ordinary women, the span of their lives - encompassing the most traumatic century in Britain's history - and the status to which they were born, would have made their story a fascinating one. ![]()
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