The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (2 page)

11. Nanny ‘Blor’, much loved by all the Mitfords.

12. Unity and Decca (seated), 1922.

13. Decca aged four.

14. Unity aged seven

15. Tom at Eton

16. Nancy (before she cut her hair) and Debo, 1923. There were sixteen years between Nancy and her youngest sister and Sydney asked her to be Debo’s godmother.

17. Annual family photo call at Asthall in 1922. ‘When one looks back at that time, it seems to have been all summers,’ Sydney wrote.

18. Debo skating at St Moritz. She was invited to join the British junior team, but Sydney would not allow it.

19. Nineteen-year-old Diana’s marriage to Bryan Guinness on 30 January 1929, at St Margaret’s, Westminster, was the ‘society wedding of the year’.

20. Diana and Bryan on honeymoon in Sicily.

21. Diana in fancy dress, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1932 – the year she met Oswald Mosley. Her silver foil wig was made for her by theatre costume designer Oliver Messel.

22. Nancy by Cecil Beaton, 1932.

23. Oswald Mosley with Swedish fencing partner, c. 1932.