The Mitford Girls 6 (Chapters 8-9)

 

Unity wrote a letter to the newspaper "Der Sturmer" saying that she was a Jew hater.  As an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler and a prominent member of his Munich inner circle, Mitford wrote the letter to publicly prove her extreme loyalty to the Nazi cause and make her mark.  The publication of her letter caused massive public outrage and scandal back home in Great Britain. However, it served its intended purpose in Germany, winning her the favor of Hitler—who rewarded her with a gold swastika badge, VIP access to the 1936 Olympic Games, and entry into the upper echelons of the Nazi party.

After Nancy published her book "Wigs on the Green", there was a rift between her and her sisters Diana and Unity. Wigs on the Green viciously lampooned the British Union of Fascists. The book closely mocked her sister Diana’s future husband, Oswald Mosley, and made fun of Unity’s fanatical obsession with Nazism. Diana and Unity were furious over the novel, creating a profound rift in the family.

In 1934 Unity, Diana and Tom Mitford attended the Nuremberg rally. 

Diana was involved in a car accident and had extensive plastic surgery. Diana Mitford survived a severe car accident on the way to a dinner party in the summer of 1932, where a head-on collision sent her through the windscreen and inflicted severe facial lacerations and a broken nose. 

In 1936 Diana and Mosley married in secret. Diana Mitford and Sir Oswald Mosley married in a secret ceremony on October 6, 1936, in the Berlin drawing room of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The wedding was attended by Adolf Hitler, and the marriage was kept hidden from the public until the birth of their first child in 1938.

They moved to Wootton Lodge in Staffordshire.