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The mitford affair review7/4/2023 I received a copy of The Mitford Affair from Edelweiss and Sourcebooks in exchange for an honest review. The family has links to Winston Churchill, so Nancy has to make the difficult decision, who deserves her loyalty her country or her sisters? She’s rather shocked by Diana’s and Unity’s choices, with another war looming, she’s worried they will be seen as a threat to English security and she’s right. Nancy Mitford is a published novelists, she marries Peter Rodd and dreams of having a family of her own. A socially awkward and tall Unity leaves England, moves to Germany, joins the Nazi party and meets her idol. Two other Mitford sisters have different political ideas to most British citizens, Jessica’s a communist and Unity’s obsessed by Adolf Hitler. When Diana divorces her husband the 2nd Baron of Moyne or Bryan Guinness, it caused a big scandal, she was having an affair with the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley and she believed in his radical ideas. The families rather fond of calling each other by odd nick names, the children invented their own private language, and they called their father (Farve) and their mother (Muv). Their parents David and Sydney Mitford, are rather distant, the girls and their only brother Tom grew up being looked after by a series of nannies and running wild in the English countryside. The six Mitford sisters, Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah are known as the Bright Young Things.
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