Book description
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures
of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in
1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford
sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the
brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left
him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as
Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and
scandalised society. In 1933 she took her sister Unity to Germany; soon
both had met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler. Diana became so close
to him that when she and Mosley married in 1936 the ceremony took place
in the Goebbels drawing room and Hitler was guest of honour. She
continued to visit Hitler until a month before the outbreak of war; and
afterwards, for many, years, refused to believe in the reality of the
Holocaust. This gripping book is a portrait of both an extraordinary
individual and the strange, terrible world of political extremism in the
1930s. Anne De Courcy is a well-known biographer, journalist,
interviewer and reviewer. She is the author of
The Viceroy's Daughters
and Diana Mosley
.
