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==Social debut== Mitford was a [[debutante]] in 1932.<ref Name="HBG2"/> That same year, her elder sister Diana left her husband to pursue an affair with [[Oswald Mosley]], who had just founded the [[British Union of Fascists]]. Their father was furious at the disgrace and forbade any member of the family to see either Diana or "The Man Mosley", as he termed him.<ref Name="HBG2"/> Unity disobeyed and she met with Mosley that summer at a party thrown by Diana, where she was promised a party badge. Mosley's son, [[Nicholas Mosley|Nicholas]], recalled: "Unity became a very extrovert member of the party, which was her way [...] She joined my father's party and she used to turn up, she used to go around in a black shirt uniform, and she used to turn up at communist meetings and she used to do the fascist salute and heckle the speaker. That was the sort of person she was".<ref Name="HBG2"/> He adds that although his father admired Unity's commitment, Mosley felt "She wasn't doing him any good, because she was making an exhibition of herself."<ref Name="HBG2"/><ref name="britishGirl" /> Unity and Diana Mitford travelled to Germany, as part of the British delegation from the British Union of Fascists to the 1933 [[Nuremberg Rally]], seeing Hitler for the first time.<ref Name="HBG2"/><ref name="theTimes"/> Mitford later said, "The first time I saw him I knew there was no one I would rather meet." Biographer [[Anne de Courcy]] confirms: "The Nuremberg rally had a profound effect on both Diana and Unity. . . Unity was already, as it were, convinced about Hitler, but this turned conviction into worship. From then on, she wanted to be near Hitler as much as possible".<ref Name="HBG2"/><ref name="britishGirl" />
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