Diana Mosley

Anne de Courcy

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Anno: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780062381675
• Argomento: Storia
• Categoria: Biografie in ambito storico

Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society.

In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler. They became close friends and he attended her wedding as the guest of honor. During the war, the Mosleys' association with Hitler led them to be arrested and interned for three and a half years. Diana's relationships with Hitler and Mosley defined her life in the public eye and marked her as a woman who possessed a singular lack of empathy for those less blessed at birth.

Anne de Courcy's revealing biography chronicles one of the most intriguing, controversial women of the twentieth century. It is a riveting tell-all memoir of a leading society hostess, a woman with intimate access to the highest literary, political, and social circles of her time. Written with Mosley's exclusive cooperation and based upon hundreds of hours of taped interviews and unprecedented access to her private papers, letters, and diaries, Lady Mosley's only stipulation was that the book not be published until after her death.

Index

Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 46, 55, 132

Abdy, Jane Lady, 347

Abyssinia, 180

Action, 76, 77, 78, 200, 203, 204, 212, 386

Acton, Harold, 26, 42, 51, 332, 347

Acton, William, 194

Acton brothers, 20, 49

Advisory Committee, 230, 234

DM examined by, 240–43, 245, 345, 346, 376–403

Oswald Mosley examined by, 234–5, 252

Africa, 291, 294

Air Raid Defence, 208

Air Time Ltd, 180, 189, 199

Airlie, Lord, 18

Alamein, 151, 266

Albert Hall, 29, 137–9

Aldershot, 238

Alexandre, Pierre (hairdresser), 326

Alianora, 297, 298

Alice, Princess, 161

Allen, David, and Son, 180, 191, 195

Allen, Maud, 199

Allen, W.E.D (Bill), 73, 129, 160, 175, 179, 180, 189, 191, 196, 199, 303

Almasy, Teddy, 205–6

Amalfi, 158

Ancoats, 67

Anderson, Sir John, 213, 242, 386, 403

Andrews, Doris, 255

Anrep, Boris, 128

Antibes, 83

Appleshaw, 54

Arles, 91, 92

Ascot, 240, 376

Ashbrooke, 96

Ashley, Sylvia, 82

Ashton-under-Lyne, 66, 75

Asquith, Margot, Lady Oxford, 75

Asthall, 8–9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 52, 260, 315

Aston, 73

Astor, Lady Nancy, 109–10, 200, 220

Astor, Lady Violet, 24

Athanasian Club, 27

Athenia, 208, 209*, 221, 387

Atlas mountains, 318

Attlee, Clement, 71

Auden, W.H., 165

Australia, 235, 278

Austria, 58, 386, 391

Avignon, 91

Bader, Group-Captain Douglas, 292

Baglion, Jean de, 307

Bailiffscourt, 25, 33, 42

Baldwin, Oliver, 74

Baldwin, Stanley, 43, 68, 74, 88, 392

Barker, Miss, 263

Batsford, 7, 8

Battle of Cable Street, 163, 166–7, 178

Baxter, Miss, 274

Bay of Biscay, 297

Bayonne, 186, 187

Bayreuth, 3

Clinic, 194

Festival, 141, 162, 171, 193–4, 202, 307

BBC, 130, 179, 181, 230, 322, 348

Beaton, Cecil, 48, 49, 83, 96, 157

Beaumont, 125

Beaumont, Colin, 181

Beaverbrook, Lord, 74, 75, 156, 157, 215, 313

Beckett, Mrs Joe, 221

Beckett, John, 73, 76, 122, 129, 161, 178, 236, 237, 259

Beecham, Sir Thomas, 44, 92

Belgium, 180, 181, 188, 189, 212, 221, 387, 390

King of the Belgians, 68, 158

Queen of the Belgians, 68

Berchtesgaden, 134, 142, 147

Berghof (Haus Wachenfeld), 142, 173

Berlin, 41, 60, 119, 134, 143, 152, 171, 172, 176, 183, 189, 190, 199, 385

University of, 118

Berne, 206, 207

Berners, Lord Gerald, xi, 91, 121–2, 128, 129, 191, 218, 247, 282, 283, 285, 287, 377, 378

Bernhardt, Dr Johannes, 193, 196

Betjeman, John, xi, 20, 26, 42, 53, 54, 60, 92, 287

Betjeman, Penelope, 287

Bevan, Dr, 265

Bevin, Ernest, 70

Biddesden, 51–4, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 89, 94, 96, 103, 104, 105, 113, 152, 238, 269

Bilbao, 186

Birch, Nigel, 114

Birkett, Norman, 234, 240, 241–2, 243, 252, 403

Birley, Robert, 151

Birmingham, 69

Bismarck, Countess Mona, 307

Bismarck, Otto von, 143

Black and Tans, 68, 299

Black House, 122, 129, 160, 161, 167

Blackshirt, 106

Blackshirts, 96, 115, 116, 122–3, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 138, 139, 164, 165, 166, 346, 374, 375 see also British Union of Fascists (BUF)/British Union of Fascists and National Socialists (BU)

Blackwater, 301

Blitz, 244, 253

Blomberg, Field-Marshal, 189

Bloomsbury, 56, 128

Blum, Maître, 334

Bodiam, 55

Boer War, 4, 7

Bonaparte, rue, Paris, 293

Bonham-Carter, Violet, 278

Books and Bookmen, 308, 348

Boothby, Robert (Bob), 73, 83, 92, 93, 98, 106, 303

Bormann, Martin, 144

Boulanger, Louise, 40

Boulestin, 7...