Diana’s father, David Freeman-Mitford (later Lord Redesdale). He enlisted as a private in the Boer War. Photographed in 1900 in Kimberley, with his dog, Marker.
Diana’s father, David Freeman-Mitford (later Lord Redesdale). He enlisted as a private in the Boer War. Photographed in 1900 in Kimberley, with his dog, Marker.
Diana’s mother, Sydney Bowles. She married David Mitford in 1904.
Diana aged three.
1912: David and Sydney with their older children: Nancy, Tom, Diana, Pamela.
1918: Growing family: Diana, Pamela, Unity, Tom, Jessica on Sydney’s lap, Nancy. Photographed in 1918 at Batsford House, the Redesdale family home.
Asthall Manor where Diana spent her childhood from nine to sixteen. The family moved in 1926 to Swinbrook, a house designed and built by David himself.
Deborah, the seventh and last of the Mitford children, photographed on Diana’s lap, 1922.
Diana.
Annual family photograph: Sydney and David with Nancy, Tom, Diana (middle row, with plaits), Pam, Unity, Decca, Debo.
Aged sixteen, in Paris. Dry-paint etching of Diana by Helleu.
Diana after she became engaged to Bryan Guinness.
Diana in her wedding dress. She was only eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness on 30 January 1929.
Diana and Bryan two days before their wedding.
On honeymoon in Sicily.
Jonathan’s christening, 1930. Nanny Higgs holds the baby between Bryan and Diana.
Bryan and Diana at the window of their first home, 10 Buckingham Street. Diana’s brother, Tom, on the doorstep.
Diana was twenty when she became chatelaine of Biddesden, the country house near Andover where she spent much of her short married life with Bryan Guinness. Their London house was in Cheyne Walk.
Evelyn Waugh developed an intense friendship with Diana while she was pregnant with her first child.
Diana’s gifted and eccentric friend, Lord Berners.
Dora Carrington in riding clothes with Lytton Strachey.
Diana in Venice, September 1930.
Diana in fancy dress. Photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1932, the year she met Mosley.
Diana with her two Guinness sons. She loved to dress her small boys in frocks.
Sir Oswald Mosley addressing a British Union of Fascists Rally in Hyde Park on 10 September 1934.
Diana on Mosley’s boat in the Mediterranean, 1935.
Support for the BUF: fascist rally in London.
Unity speaking at Hesselberg in 1935.
Mosley inspecting members of the British Union of Fascists in Royal Mint Street, London, October 1935.
Hitler at the Wagner family’s Haus Wahnfried, where he told Diana and Unity that war was inevitable.
Diana with Hitler, photographed in 1936.
Diana and Unity at the Nazi Rally in 1937.
Magda Goebbels, who became Diana’s close friend.
Josef Goebbels. Diana was secretly married to Mosley in the Goebbels’ drawing room on 6 October 1936.
Hitler’s wedding present to Diana was this photograph of himself in a silver frame.
Diana at a Nazi party Rally.
At a Nazi party Rally in September 1937: Tom Mitford
Unity Mitford with a smiling Diana.
Wootton Lodge in Staffordshire where Diana and Mosley lived from 1936 to Christmas 1939. Desmond Guinness and Diana’s dog Rebel are on the lawn.
This formal portrait of Diana with her two Guinness sons, Jonathan and Desmond, is dated December 1937. Diana had been married to Mosley since October 1936, but the secret was kept until November 1938, when their son Alexander was born.
Mosley at Wootton, playing with Alexander. Oswald Mosley was known to his friends as Tom; to Diana he was Kit, as her brother was called Tom.
Diana, April 1939.
Holloway, where Diana was imprisoned in June 1940.
Tom Mitford (Diana’s beloved brother, seen here with Derek Jackson, Pam’s husband) was killed in Burma just before the end of the war.
Mosley and Diana, with their sons Max and Alexander, at Crowood where they farmed after the war.
After their release from prison, the Mosleys were not permitted to travel abroad. They spent August 1947 at Inch Kenneth, the Redesdale’s island off Mull in Scotland.
Diana with her mother, Lady Redesdale, and her youngest son, Max.
They were denied passports, but could sail in their ketch, Alianora.
With Alexander, Formentor, July 1949.
Diana at forty.
Diana on the Lido, 1954.
BUF reunion: Mosley meeting supporters in an East End pub in the 1950s.
Lady Redesdale with her goats on Inch Kenneth.
Mosley and Diana at a literary luncheon to celebrate the publication in 1977 of her autobiography, A Life of Contrasts. Christina Foyle on left.
Diana coming out of her first floor drawing room on to its balcony, at the Temple de la Gloire, her home in France.
Diana and Mosley in the Temple garden, overlooking the lake.
Dining with the Duchess of Windsor: Mosley at seventy-eight.
Diana in her nineties.