MITFORDS (PART FOUR) - DIANA and UNITY

Third and fourth daughters of Lord and Lady Redesdale, Diana and Unity are clearly identified with the BUF cause during the VBCW, and spend much of their time together:

Off duty socialites - Diana and Unity attend a movie premiere, 1935.
Diana is 25 and Unity just 21.

Notoriety - "Truth" magazine's profile of the two Fascist sisters.

How it all began - Diana and Unity, 1934.
Unity wears an improvised BUF uniform.
Diana is the mistress of BUF Leader, Oswald Mosley.

Apogee, Nuremberg 1937 - Diana, Unity and assorted SS stormtroopers.

Nuremberg 1937 - Diana, Unity and SA stormtroopers marching past.

At home and ideologically ready for VBCW action - Diana and Unity practice salutes.

AUTUMN BIG GAME 2022 - ASSAULT ON LLAREGGUB

The Autumn Big Game 2022 took place far away from Herefordshire, in the sleepy West Wales village of LLareggub - a collection of shops and houses so little known that it could even be fictional. This Big Game did not engage the Anglicans, and it can therefore be safely assumed that, as per the Spring Big Game 2022, the good Bishop of Ludlow is still engaged in the North of the Ecclesiarchy (towards Evesham). For all the details, in eight gloriously illustrated parts, start HERE.

MITFORDS (PART THREE) - DIANA

The very beautiful and very married Diana Mitford (b. 1910) began a passionate affair with Oswald Mosley, a notorious seducer of beautiful women, in 1932. The affair led to her divorce and to their own eventual marriage in Berlin, in 1936, at the home of Joseph and Magda Goebbels. Hitler attended as a witness and guest of honour. As the adoring wife of "the Leader", there can be no doubt of Diana's support for the BUF in the VBCW....

Diana in 1932, aged 22. It was in this year that Oswald Mosley dissolved the "New Party"
- which had been destroyed by the results of the 1931 General Election in any event -
and founded the BUF. It was also in this year that Diana began her illicit relationship
with 'the Leader'.

Society lady, early 1930s

Fascist Supporter. Nuremberg Rally 1936

"The Tatler" (Dec 14, 1938) acknowledges Diana's marriage, which had been kept

secret by Mosley for a period and for political reasons.

Notes:

[1]. Diana interviewed by Mavis Nicholson HERE. Her guest appearance on Desert Island Discs, interviewed by Sue Lawley, is HERE. Both are well worth a listen.

MITFORDS (PART TWO) - UNITY

Notorious "English friend" of Adolf Hitler and sister-in-law to Sir Oswald Mosley, there is absolutely no doubt which side Unity Valkyrie Mitford would have chosen in the Very British Civil War - Fascism and the BUF!

Unity Valkyrie Mitford

Unity was born on 8th August 1914, just four days after the outbreak of World War One. By 1935, she was in Munich (purportedly to improve her German) and had succeeded in engineering a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Osteria Bavaria, the Fuhrer's favourite Munich restaurant. Over the next few years, allegedly whilst working for an Anglo-German rapprochement, she consolidated her famous friendship - and reputation as a Fascist fanatic and virulent anti-Semite.

 

The English lady, before Hitler - 18-year-old Unity, February 1932 (Bassano)

Five years later, fully fledged Fascist, 1937.
Unity in conversation with SS Untersturmfuhrer (eg. 2nd Lt.)
Fritz Stadelmann, one of Hitler's Munich adjutants.

The conversation continues - this wider shot confirms that it took place
on the front steps of the famous Munich "Brown House"

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