Nazis in Britain

[Doug Millison]

I wonder does this Diana show up in GR somewhere?

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/052500dalley-book-review.html
Adoring Fascism, Despite 'Tricky Bits'
By JANET MASLIN

(review of _Diana Mosley A Life_ by Jan Dalley)

" In 1936 Diana Mitford Guinness married Oswald Mosley, Britain's foremost
fascist, at the Berlin home of Josef and Magda Goebbels. The bride wore
yellow silk. A guest at the small ceremony was her special friend Adolf
Hitler, whose wedding gift was a large photograph of himself in a silver
frame adorned by the two-headed German eagle. For years the Mosleys
displayed this keepsake in their drawing room even though it prompted
"discomfiture," in the words of Diana's biographer, Jan Dalley, among
"some" of their guests.
[snip]
Diana was a cousin of Winston Churchill's, a darling of Evelyn Waugh's (who
dedicated "Vile Bodies" to the Guinnesses) and an unlikely friend of Lytton
Strachey's and Dora Carrington's, even if she found Bloomsbury tastes
"dreary" and "middle-class"; Diana's own aesthetic ran toward pink, blue
and gold luxe. It's possible that she might have led a life devoid of
controversy without Mosley's influence, even though one of her grandfathers
was one of Hitler's favorite Germanophiles and her father hatched a
gold-mining scheme in a Canadian locale called Swastika. But Diana, as
Dalley sees it, "had an idealistic tendency to hero-worship that welcomed
the idea of a single, strong leader who would accomplish wonderful things."




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