oooh - which one - in Glasgow by any chance?
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I met The Dowager Duchess last year at Chatsworth, the shell club had a show there and she attended. I spoke to her for a few minutes about shells.Best regards,
JonathanComment
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No, but they did serve Olives in the canteen... http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_page...OLIVIDAE.shtml
Best regards,
JonathanComment
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In my very slow progress through the book of letters I have just reached the start of WW2. On 2/09/1939 Unity writes a normal praise for Hitler letter - a day later she attempts to kill herself. Has it been established why?Comment
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Hmm - it would end up as a rather expensive bookOriginally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
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answer to the opening question - no
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"In an interview with John Preston of the Daily Telegraph, published in September 2007, she [Deborah, the recently deceased Dowager Duchess] recounted having tea with Adolf Hitler during a visit to Munich in June 1937, when she was visiting Germany with her mother and her sister Unity, the latter being the only one of the three who spoke German and, therefore the one who carried on the entire conversation with Hitler. Shortly before ending the interview, Preston asked her to choose with whom she would have preferred to have tea: American singer Elvis Presley or Hitler. Looking at the interviewer with astonishment, she answered: "Well, Elvis of course! What an extraordinary question." "Comment
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Whatever started this up again?
They always made news years ago.Comment
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hi Saly!Originally posted by salymap View Post
It's because the last of them has just died - "Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and the last surviving Mitford sister, has died aged 94.Comment
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Mention in that article of Swinbrook reminds me of visiting the church in that Cotswold village where the graves of Nancy, Unity and Diana can be found. No doubt Deborah may find her last resting place there.Originally posted by mercia View Post
Unity's poignant epitaph: "Say not the struggle nought availeth" reflects the turbulence of her life.Comment
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... let's hear it for Arthur Hugh Clough [1819 - 1861]Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!Comment
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