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Diana Mitford was the fourth child and third daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), and his wife Sydney (1880–1963). [10] She was a first cousin once removed of Clementine Churchill, [11] second cousin of Sir Angus Ogilvy, and first cousin, twice removed, of Bertrand Russell. [12]
Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley [n 1] (née Curzon; 23 August 1898 – 16 May 1933), nicknamed "Cimmie", was a British aristocrat, politician and the first wife of the British Fascist politician Sir Oswald Mosley.
The Duchess of Windsor is a 1980 biography of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor by Diana Mosley. The book was commissioned by Lord Longford and published by Sidgwick & Jackson and again by Gibson Square in 2003. In Paris, Mosley and her husband Oswald Mosley were long-term neighbours and friends of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor and Edward VIII.
Mosley and his second wife Diana wearing their fascist uniforms in 1936. Mosley had three children with his first wife Lady Cynthia Curzon. [13] Vivien Elisabeth Mosley (1921–2002); she married Desmond Francis Forbes Adam (1926–1958) on 15 January 1949. Adam had been educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge. The couple had ...
Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 16 March 1930), is a British peer, businessman and writer. A member of the Guinness family, he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
The book was generally well received by critics, who were impressed by Mosley's writing talents, although some were not satisfied that she gave a convincing explanation of her controversial political views. [7] This view has been mirrored by Mosley's biographer Jan Dalley and The New York Times critic, Janet Maslin. [8]
Lady Cynthia Mosley (1898–1933), first wife of Oswald Mosley Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (1923–2017), English novelist, eldest son of Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley. Ivo Mosley (born 1951), son of Nicholas Mosley, British writer; Daniel Mosley, 4th Baron Ravensdale (born 1982), grandson of Nicholas Mosley, British peer
Grave of Nicholas Mosley, Lord Ravensdale, in Highgate Cemetery, north London. Mosley was born in London in 1923. He was the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, a British politician, and his first wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (a Viceroy of India and at the time of Mosley's birth Foreign Secretary).