Editing Mitford family (section)

==Mitford siblings==
*[[Nancy Mitford]] (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) married Peter Rodd, whom she subsequently divorced, and had a longstanding relationship with French politician and statesman [[Gaston Palewski]]. She lived in France for much of her adult life. She wrote many novels, including the semi-autobiographical ''[[The Pursuit of Love]]'' and ''[[Love in a Cold Climate]]''. She was also a biographer of historical figures, including the [[Sun King]].
*[[Pamela Mitford|Pamela "Pam" Mitford]] (25 November 1907 – 12 April 1994) was called "Woman" by her siblings.{{sfn|Mitford|2010|p=ix}} [[John Betjeman]], who for a time was in love with her, referred to her as the "Rural Mitford". She married and later divorced millionaire physicist [[Derek Jackson]], and spent much of the 1960s living with Giuditta Tommasi (died 1993), an Italian horsewoman.<ref>Charlotte Mosley, editor, ''The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters'', London: Fourth Estate, 2007, p. 264. According to her sister Jessica, Pamela Mitford had become "a you-know-what-bian" [lesbian].</ref>
*[[Tom Mitford|Thomas David "Tom" Mitford]] (2 January 1909 – 30 March 1945), the only son, was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]], where he had an affair with [[James Lees-Milne]].{{sfn|Mitford|2010|p=40}} He later had a lengthy affair with Austrian Jewish dancer [[Tilly Losch]] during her marriage to [[Edward James]]. According to Jessica's letters, Thomas supported British fascism and was posted to the [[Burma campaign]] after he had refused to fight in Europe.<ref name=jeslets/> He died in action.
*[[Diana Mitford]] (17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003) married aristocrat and writer [[Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne]], in 1929. She left him in 1933 for British fascist leader [[Oswald Mosley]], who she married in 1936 and with whom she had two sons, Alexander and [[Max Mosley]]. The couple were interned in [[Holloway Prison]] from May 1940 until November 1943.
*[[Unity Mitford|Unity Valkyrie Mitford]] (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was known as "Bobo" or "Boud" to her siblings. Her adulation of, and friendship with, [[Adolf Hitler]] was widely publicised. She [[Suicide|shot herself in the head]] just hours after [[United Kingdom declaration of war on Germany (1939)|Britain declared war on Germany]],<ref name=jeslets/> surviving, but with permanent brain damage. In 1944 her family sent her to the Scottish islet of [[Inch Kenneth]], where she lived out the war.<ref>{{cite news |title=The strange case of the aristocrat, Hitler and the tiny Scottish island New book to reveal final years of Mitford sister |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12488458.the-strange-case-of-the-aristocrat-hitler-and-the-tiny-scottish-island-new-book-to-reveal-final-years-of-mitford-sister/ |access-date=31 May 2021 |work=HeraldScotland |date=26 June 2005 |language=en}}</ref> She died of [[Pneumococcal infection|pneumococcal meningitis]] at West Highland Cottage Hospital, Oban.
*[[Jessica Mitford|Jessica Lucy "Decca" Mitford]] (11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996), unlike the rest of her family, was a [[communist]]. She eloped with [[Esmond Romilly]] to Spain to participate in [[Spanish Civil War|the Civil War]]; they subsequently moved to the United States. On 30 November 1941, during an air raid on [[Hamburg]], Romilly's aircraft [[Esmond Romilly#America, war and disappearance|was lost over the North Sea]] with all on board. She remained in the U.S. most of her adult life, where she married [[Robert Treuhaft]] and was a member of the [[Communist Party USA|American Communist Party]] until 1958. She wrote several volumes of memoirs and several volumes of polemical investigation, including the best-selling ''[[The American Way of Death]]'' (1963) about the [[Death care industry in the United States|funeral industry]]. She was the grandmother of [[James Forman Jr.]] and Chaka Forman, sons of the African-American [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]] leader [[James Forman]] by her daughter Constancia Romilly.
*[[Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire|Deborah Vivien "Debo" Mitford]] (31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was nicknamed "Nine" by her sister Nancy (Debo's supposed mental age).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moss |first=Stephen |date=2014-09-12 |title=The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/sep/12/deborah-duchess-of-devonshire-chatsworth |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She married [[Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire|Andrew Cavendish]] (1920—2004), who later became the Duke of Devonshire, and with him turned his ancestral home [[Chatsworth House]] into one of Britain's most successful [[stately homes]]. She wrote several books.