The mitford affair book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Her family - and society at large, for that matter - was aghast at her decision. ![]() Marie: Diana, who was often described as the loveliest girl of her generation, left her wealthy, handsome, enamored husband, Bryan Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune, for Sir Oswald Mosley, who was the married founder of the British Union of Fascists. Jen: What happens in Diana’s life that causes discord among the sisters? The sisters found themselves in the cross-hairs of the lead-up to World War II. ![]() Each sister was more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next, and they appeared in the headlines so often their mother publicly stated that anytime she saw the phrase “peer’s daughter” in the newspapers, it was about her daughters. Marie: The six Mitford sisters were the aristocratic “it” girls of the 1920s and 1930s in Great Britain. But when I came across the Mitfords again as I did research about their cousins the Churchills while writing another novel, LADY CLEMENTINE, I learned about the shocking ways in which these sisters were at the epicenter of World War II - and I knew I had to write this timely tale. Marie Benedict: I’ve been fascinated by the rarified, mesmerizing, often strange world of the Mitfords since college when a dear friend and I backpacked across Europe after a semester abroad and I brought along one of Nancy Mitford semi-autobiographical novels to read during our train travels. Jennifer Vido: What inspired your new release, THE MITFORD AFFAIR ? ![]()
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