What is Diana Mitford?
'''Diana, Lady Mosley''' (''née'' '''Freeman-Mitford'''; 17 June 1910{{spaced ndash}}11 August 2003), usually known as '''Diana Mitford''' was one of the noted [[Mitford sisters]]. She was married first to [[Bryan Walter Guinness]], son and heir to the [[Baron Moyne]]. Secondly, she married Sir [[Oswald Mosley]], leader of the [[British Union of Fascists]]. She was divorced from her first marriage on the grounds of adultery with Mosely. Her second marriage, in 1936, took place at the home of [[Joseph Goebbels]], with [[Adolf Hitler]] as guest of honour. Later her involvement with [[fascist]] [[political]] [[wikt:cause|cause]]s resulted in three years' [[internment]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. She later moved to [[Paris]] and enjoyed some success as a [[writer]]. In the 1950s she contributed [[wikt:stories|stories]] to ''[[Tatler (1901)|Tatler]]'' [[magazine]].<ref name=pol>{{cite book |year=2008 |first=Diana |last=Mitford |title=The Pursuit of Laughter |publisher=Gibson Square books}}</ref> She [[Editor|edited]] the magazine ''[[The European (magazine)|The European]]''.<ref name=pol/> In 1977 she published her [[autobiography]], ''[[A Life of Contrasts]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/dalley-mosley.html |title=Diana Mosley |newspaper=The New York Times |last= Dalley |first=Jan |access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref> She died in Paris on 11 August 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/celebrity-obituaries/1438660/Lady-Mosley.html |title=Lady Mosley |date=13 August 2003 |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited |access-date=9 June 2016}}</ref> Her son [[Max Mosley]] became president of the ''Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile'' ([[FIA]]), == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitford, Diana}} [[Category:1910 births]] [[Category:2003 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from London]] [[Category:Fascists]] [[Category:English autobiographers]]