Daily Telegraph 13/08/03: articles and obituary of Lady Mosley (1910-2003)

Diana Mosley, unrepentantly Nazi and
effortlessly charming
By Andrew Roberts
(Filed: 13/08/2003)

The death of Diana Mosley brings to an end one of the most curious
questions of British upper-class etiquette: how does one deal socially
with an unrepentant Nazi?

One of the funny, charming, intelligent and glamorous Mitford
sisters; a denizen of the "Hons' cupboard''; a dedicatee of Vile Bodies;
a beautiful woman whom Churchill called "Dinamite''; an inspired
interior decorator; a steadfast friend to a wide gal Пre (including some
Jews); a fine autobiographer and loving mother; yet Diana Mosley
was also a woman who could - when she was inadvisedly invited to
appear on Desert Island Discs - describe Adolf Hitler in almost
wholly positive terms.

The social problem was made easy for most people of her
acquaintance during the Second World War because of her long
incarceration in Holloway prison for her fascism.
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