Mitford Girls: The Biography Of An Extraordinary Family

I am normal, my wife is normal, but my daughters are each more foolish than the other
bewailed Lord Redesdale, father of the Mitford girls.

Even if the six daughters, born between 1904 and 1920, of the charming, eccentric David, Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney had been quite ordinary women, the span of their lives - encompassing the most traumatic century in Britain's history - and the status to which they were born, would have made their story a fascinating one. But Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo, "the mad, mad Mitfords" were, and are, far from ordinary.