Hons and Rebels

We have met the explosive Lord Redesdale before- thinly disguised as General Murgatroyd and Uncle Matthew in the novels of Nancy Mitford. Now another of his daughters has told the whole story of a remarkable family. The Mitford children emerged from an insular, eccentric home into various equally harsh limelights. There was Nancy's success as a writer; the social fame of Tom and Diana (she married first Brian Guinness and later Sir Oswald Mosley); and the political notoriety of Unity, who was admitted to Hitler's circle and was sent back to England mysteriously wounded after the outbreak of war.