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The six Mitford sisters, the daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, were brilliantly weird and eccentric. Their father, a proud, country-dwelling conservative, did not believe in educating girls, and was rewarded with shocking scandals and astonishing behavior from his daughters.
Nancy Mitford was an author and celebrated humorist and cynic. The whole family was something peculiar and well worth reading up on.
Deborah was known as the "sensible" Mitford.
Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and the last surviving Mitford sister, has died aged 94.
Her son, the Duke of Devonshire, announced the death in a statement from Chatsworth House, her stately home.
The six Mitford sisters, the daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, were brilliantly weird and eccentric. Their father, a proud, country-dwelling conservative, did not believe in educating girls, and was rewarded with shocking scandals and astonishing behavior from his daughters.
The Mitford sisters fascinated - and sometimes scandalised - British society in the 1940s.
Unity was a friend of Hitler, Diana, the second wife of British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, and Jessica a left-wing polemicist.
Nancy Mitford was an author and celebrated humorist and cynic. The whole family was something peculiar and well worth reading up on.
Deborah was known as the "sensible" Mitford.