Most Recent Role: on Masterpiece Theatre
Alias Name(s): Nancy Rodd
Gender: Female
Birthplace: London, England
Birthday: 11-28-1904
Birth Name: Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Date of Death: 1-30-1973
Alias Name(s): Nancy Rodd
Gender: Female
Birthplace: London, England
Birthday: 11-28-1904
Birth Name: Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Date of Death: 1-30-1973
Nancy was one of the famous (or infamous) Mitford sisters, the others being Pamela (1907-1994), Diana (1910-2003), who married the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Moseley, Unity (1914-1948), a friend of Adolf Hitler, Jessica (1917-1996), a communist, and Deborah (1920- ), Duchess of Devonshire. ( Unity suffered a long lingering death after trying to commit suicide when the Second...
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Love in a Cold Climate (2)
Monday 18 February 2002 on PBS
Linda's marriage to to the Commuist Christian raises few eyebrows, but Polly's betrothal to Boy Dougdale raises many.
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Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski
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In 1966, a London newspaper asked Nancy for a comment on the subject of sisters, and she gave them this - "Sisters stand between one and life's cruel circumstances."
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Nancy's sister Diana wrote an autobiography which has a chapter for each place she ever lived in. The years of the Second World War are covered by a chapter called Prison, as that's where she was.
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Nancy and her sister Decca Mitford called each other "Susan" for most of their lives, though neither could remember how this came about.
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Nancy was related to President John F. Kennedy by marriage. Her sister Deborah Mitford married the 11th Duke of Devonshire, while Kennedy's sister Kathleen Kennedy married the Duke's brother, the Marquess of Hartington.
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Her sister Diana Mitford married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
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Nancy Mitford: The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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Nancy Mitford: I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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Nancy Mitford: Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past! In precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late.
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Nancy Mitford: To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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