The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (79 page)

Connolly, Cyril 397, 450

Conservative Party 133, 134, 135

Constantinople 203

Cooper, Diana 108, 357, 426–7, 489

Cours Fénelon, Paris 79–81, 82, 83

Coward, Noël 67, 108

Cowles, Virginia 270

Cresswell, Wilhelmina (‘Billa’), later Lady Harrod 185, 426

Crewe, Lord 81

Cripps, Sir Stafford 265

Crowood House 414–16, 419

Crux Easton 381, 389, 393, 394, 413–14

Cry Havoc
(Beverly Nichols) 119, 177, 178

Culme-Seymour, Angela (‘Trixie’) 453

Cunard, Emerald 108, 141, 356

Curtis Brown (literary agency) 463

Curzon, Cynthia see Mosley, Cynthia

Czechoslovakia 262–3, 266, 267, 276, 277, 282

Dachau 327

Daily Express
229–30, 307, 313

Daily Mail
137, 209–10

Daily Mirror
284, 300, 362

Daily Sketch
40

Daily Telegraph
203, 417, 453

Daily Worker
137, 177, 179, 401

Darling, Grace 514

Dashwood, Helen 275

Dawkins, Willie 27

Dawson, Lord 377

débutantes 75–6

de Laessoe, Major and Mrs 364, 377

Dell, Miss 90–1

Democratic Party 338

Depression, Great 113, 117

Desert Island Discs
507, 516–17

Deutelmoser, Herr 182

Devonshire, Duchess of see Mitford, Deborah

Devonshire, 10th Duke of 421, 422, 423

Devonshire, 11th Duke of see Cavendish, Andrew

Devonshire Regiment 392

Dicks, Laura (‘Nanny Blor’) 23, 26, 27, 34–5, 52, 78, 85–6, 303, 312; death 462–3; famous put-downs 80; Nancy’s essay on 472; reaction to
Pigeon Pie
310; reaction to Decca’s rebelliousness 104, 227, 230, 241

Digby, Pamela 301

Dolphin Square, London 323

Domville, Sir Barry 363

Don’t Tell Alfred
(Nancy Mitford) 185–6, 426, 453

Drummonds bank 105, 315, 435

Duchess of Windsor, The (Diana Mosley) 502–3

Duke of York, HMS 347

Dunn, Kathleen 150

Durr, Clifford 283, 317, 345–6, 350, 372

Durr, Virginia 283, 317–19, 337, 338, 342, 345–6, 350, 351, 347, 365, 372

Earhart, Amelia 95

East Bay Civil Rights Congress 430

Eaton Square, London 146, 150, 199, 200

Eden, Anthony 229

Edensor House 421–2, 423, 440

Edward VII, king 24

Edward VIII see Windsor, Duke of

Elizabeth of Austria, empress 25

Emergency Powers Act (1939): Rule 18B 323–4, 326, 327, 335–6, 360, 363, 380, 415

Encounter 451, 452

Engel, Gerhard 322

Erskine, Hamish St Clair 97, 107–8, 110, 147, 148, 149–51, 153, 354

Erskine, Mary St Clair 150, 167

Esquire
470–1, 506

Estate, The (Duchess of Devonshire) 515

Ethiopia 204, 354, 355, 356

Eton College 279

Euphorion Books 416

European 460

Evans, Norah 22

Evening Standard 189, 460

Examiner 375

Faces of Philip
(Jessica Mitford) 514

Famous Writer School 480–1

Faringdon, Oxfordshire 415

Farrer, Ann (‘Idden’) (cousin) 119–20, 312, 385; Decca’s friendship with 120–1, 122, 165, 166, 171, 174, 176, 232, 467–8

Farrer, Barbara (cousin) 120

Farrer, Denis (uncle) 120

Farrer, Joan, née Mitford (aunt) 120, 124, 467

Farrer, Joan (‘Robin’/’Rudbin’) (cousin) 119, 120, 231–2, 312, 464, 468, 484, 503; comes out jointly with Unity 124–5, 140; marriage 464; tribute to Nancy 492

Farrer family 24, 120, 121, 301

Fascism 143, 144, 153, 204, 264–5, 322; and fear of Communism 138, 195, 203, 310; see also British Union of Fascists; Nazis

Fauré, Edgar 454

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 372, 430, 432, 446–7, 448

Federal Communications Bureau 283

Fellowes, Daisy 415

Fettiplace family 45, 50

Fitzgerald, Scott 115

Fitzwilliam, Peter 410–11

Foot, Michael 460–1

Forman, James 482

Frances Holland school 26

Franco, Francisco 204, 239, 251, 293

Frantz, Marge 373

Frederick the Great
(Nancy Mitford) 488

Free French Forces 355

Free French Officers Club 333

Freedom Fighters 471

Freeman, Mr, of Swinbrook Manor 45–6

Friends Apart (Philip Toynbee) 264

Gallipoli 206

Gardner, Evelyn, later Waugh 108, 109

Gaulle, Charles de 355, 357, 390, 397, 398–9, 454

Gay Hussar, London 460

George VI, king 246

Gladstein, Grossman, Sawyer and Edises 404

Gladwyn, Cynthia 150

Godfrey, Archbishop 384

Goebbels, Joseph 183, 187, 204, 206, 207, 210

Goebbels, Magda 211, 251, 298

Goering, Hermann 207, 252

Gollancz (publisher) 464

Gordon-Canning, Captain 211

Grace Had an English Heart
(Jessica Mitford) 514

Graham, Katherine (‘Kay’) 281, 433–4

Graham, Sheilah 114–15

Grand National 215

Great Estates (TV series) 526

Greater Britain, The (Oswald Mosley) 138, 142

Gribun, Mull 287, 411, 474, 475, 484

Grosvenor Road, London 273

Guardian, Manchester 134, 511

Guernica 239

Guinness, Bryan: engagement to Diana 94, 97, 98–9; marriage 99–103, 106–7; impressions of Mitfords 104; social life 108–9, 110–11, 112, 126, 127, 130–1; writes novel 110; children 110, 127; admitted to the bar 126; homes 126; conjuring tricks 129; and Diana’s affair 141, 143, 144–6; divorce 150, 153–4, 201; remarries 256; stays friends with Diana 256; attends Decca’s gambling party 256–7

Guinness, Catherine 510–11

Guinness, Desmond 127, 353, 381, 382, 483, 500, 525

Guinness, Evelyn 98, 102

Guinness, Jonathan 110, 200, 336, 353, 381–2, 501, 510–11

Guinness family and estates 102–3

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco 370–1

Halifax, Lord 350

Hamilton, Hamish 396

Hamilton, Willie 472

Hammersley, Violet 24, 165, 295, 300, 301, 311, 325, 330, 435, 446

Hanfstaengl, Erna 252, 284–5, 295

Hanfstaengl, Putzi 159–61, 162, 174, 175, 251–3, 284, 286

Hardwick Hall 441–2

hare-coursing 48

Harker, Brigadier 325

Harlech, Lord 496

Harpers Bazaar
107

Harrod, Lady see Cresswell, Wilhelmina

Harrod, Roy 108

Harrods 439

Hart-Davis, Rupert 397

Harvard University 494

Hasties (solicitors) 229, 233, 466

Hastings, Selina 511–12

Hastings, Sussex 34

Hatherop Castle School 53–5, 56

Havering House 218

‘Hearties’ 70–1

Helleu, Paul-César 12–13, 80, 83, 84

Helleu, Paulette 190, 496

Henie, Sonja 114

Henlein, Herr 270

Herald Tribune 335, 383

Heythrop Hunt 30, 47, 147, 215

Heywood Hill, George 353, 452, 466, 468

Heywood Hill’s bookshop 353, 394, 465–6

Higgs, Nanny 110, 273, 327

High Wycombe see Old Mill Cottage

Highcliffe Castle 153

Highland Fling
(Nancy Mitford) 110, 113, 147

Hill, Derek 172, 183

Himmler, Heinrich 173

Hitler, Adolf: and Anschluss 242–3, 244; British pre-war perceptions of 161–2, 175–6, 262–3, 265; comes to power 146, 159, 160, 204–5; and Czechoslovakia 262–3; Diana’s meetings with 197, 204–5, 206–8, 210, 248, 250, 252, 253, 268, 287–9, 321–2, 501; and Diana’s wedding 211–12; Duke of Windsor and 502; and France 316; Hanfstaengl and 159–60, 251–3, 284–5; on inevitability of war 288; and Kristallnacht 263; Lloyd George and 323; love affairs 250–1; march into Rhineland 204;
Mein Kampf
160; Mosley compared to 138–9; and Night of the Long Knives 172–3; opinion of Mosley 322; pro-England attitude 205–6; and Sudetenland 266, 268, 270; temper 248; Unity’s early interest in 122, 159–60, 172, 175–6, 181; Unity’s first meetings with 181–7; and Unity’s flat 285–6, 290; Unity’s friendship with 204–5, 206–8, 231, 244, 247–52; Unity’s gift to 97; Unity’s relationship with (extent of) 250–1, 258, 266, 267–9, 287–8; and Unity’s suicide attempt 298–9, 305, 306–7