Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

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Diana Mitford was the fourth child and third daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), and his wife Sydney (1880–1963). [10] She was a first cousin of Clementine Churchill, [11] second cousin of Sir Angus Ogilvy, and first cousin, twice removed, of Bertrand Russell. [12] She was raised in the country estate of Batsford Park, Gloucestershire, then from the age of 10 at the family home, Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire, and later at Swinbrook House, a home her father had built in the nearby village of Swinbrook. [13] Adebowale, Temi (12 October 2019). "The True Story of 'Peaky Blinders' Character Oswald Mosley". Men's Health . Retrieved 28 September 2023. Barnes, James J.; Patience P. Barnes (2005). Nazis in Pre-War London, 1930–1939: The Fate and Role of German Party Members and British Sympathizers. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-053-8. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021 . Retrieved 9 February 2014. The Liberal Westminster Gazette wrote that Mosley was "the most polished literary speaker in the Commons, words flow from him in graceful epigrammatic phrases that have a sting in them for the government and the Conservatives. To listen to him is an education in the English language, also in the art of delicate but deadly repartee. He has human sympathies, courage and brains." [30]

Anne de Courcy (2002), The Viceroy's Daughters: the Lives of the Curzon Sisters., Preview, New York: W. Morrow, ISBN 0-06-621061-5 , retrieved 31 January 2011 In 1936, Mosley married his former mistress Diana Guinness (nee Mitford) in secret at the Berlin home of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister. Hitler himself was present for the ceremony and became a friend of the couple. Mosley wrote the foreword and introduction of Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton. She produced her own two books of memoirs: A Life of Contrasts (1977, Hamish Hamilton), and Loved Ones (1985). The latter is a collection of pen portraits of close relatives and friends such as the writer Evelyn Waugh among others. In 1980, she released The Duchess of Windsor, a biography. Before Lady Cynthia died, Mitford lived openly as Mosley’s mistress for three years and according to The Guardian was “tolerant of his infidelities”.As the wife of a baronet she was occasionally seen in records as Lady Mosley; however by preference always referred to as Lady Cynthia (when used in public with a surname, Curzon/Mosley), her own title as the daughter of a marquess.

Realising the economic uncertainty that was facing the nation because of the death of its domestic industry, Mosley put forward a scheme in the "Mosley Memorandum" that called for high tariffs to protect British industries from international finance and transform the British Empire into an autarkic trading bloc, for state nationalisation of main industries, for higher school-leaving ages and pensions to reduce the labour surplus, and for a programme of public works to solve interwar poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, the memorandum laid out the foundations of the corporate state which intended to combine businesses, workers and the government into one body as a way to "Obliterate class conflict and make the British economy healthy again". [36] [37] Lovell, Mary S. (2002). The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-01043-0. Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, Wildflower Hall, Shimla, India – Other Activities/ golf Wildflower Hall, Shimla a b c d e f g "Sir Oswald Mosley – Meteoric rise and fall of a controversial politician". The Times. 4 December 1980. p.19.Having initially arrived in Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka), the journey then continued through mainland India. They spent these initial days in the government house of Ceylon, followed by Madras and then Calcutta, where the Governor at the time was Lord Lytton. [20]

A sarcastic commentary by Canadian human-rights activist and Telegraph columnist Mark Steyn appeared in the same issue. Entitled Aside from the Hitler thing, Diana was the best kind of girl, Steyn described her unwavering allegiance to Hitler and fascism as that of "a silly kid." [44] An equally "indulgently dismissive attitude" of her opinions was seconded in the Sunday edition in an interview with her stepson Nicholas Mosley, with whom she had refused to speak for over two decades after the publication of Beyond the Pale, his unfavorable memoir of her husband. [45] In literature [ edit ] Knight, India (2 September 2007). "The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. The progenitor, and earliest attested ancestor, of the Mosley family was Ernald de Mosley ( fl. 12th century), Lord of the Manor of Moseley, Staffordshire during the reign of King John. The family were prominent landholders in Staffordshire and seated at Rolleston Hall, near Burton upon Trent. Three baronetcies were created, two of which are now extinct (see Mosley baronets for further history of the family); a barony was created for Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow, brother of the 4th baronet, but also became extinct. [15] [14]After his election failure in 1931, Mosley went on a study tour of the "new movements" of Italy's Benito Mussolini and other fascists, and returned convinced, particularly by Fascist Italy's economic programme, [46] that it was the way forward for Britain. He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. The BUF was protectionist, strongly anti-communist and nationalistic to the point of advocating authoritarianism. [47] He claimed that the UK Labour Party was pursuing policies of "international socialism", while fascism's aim was "national socialism". [48] It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among its earliest supporters. [45] [49] [50] The Mirror piece was a guest article by the Daily Mail owner Viscount Rothermere and an apparent one-off; despite these briefly warm words for the BUF, the paper was so vitriolic in its condemnation of European fascism that Nazi Germany added the paper's directors to a hit list in the event of a successful Operation Sea Lion. [51] The Mail continued to support the BUF until the Olympia rally in June 1934. [52] Mosley was shunned in the British media for a period after the war and the couple established their own publishing company, Euphorion Books, named after a character in Goethe's Faust. This allowed Mosley to publish and Diana was free to commission a cultural list. After his release from jail, Mosley declared the death of fascism. Diana initially translated Goethe's Faust. Other notable books published by Euphorion under her aegis included La Princesse de Clèves (translated by Nancy, 1950), Niki Lauda's memoirs (1985), and Hans-Ulrich Rudel's memoirs, Stuka Pilot. She also edited several of her husband's books. Cathy Hartley (2003). A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Psychology Press. pp.325–. ISBN 978-1-85743-228-2. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020 . Retrieved 26 August 2019.