南希·米特福德
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↑  Although "Freeman-Mitford" was the family's surname after 1886, neither Nancy nor her siblings appear to have used it outside formal documents. All Nancy's published work bears the name "Mitford", she specified the name "Mitford" in her CBE citation, and her gravestone bears the shortened name.
↑  Mary Soames, daughter of Clementine and Winston Churchill, considers the most likely father of Clementine to have been William George "Bay" Middleton (1846–92), a Scottish landowner, horseman and possible lover of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Soames suggests that Bertie Mitford may have been the father of Nellie, Clementine's younger sister.
↑  William Mitford's brother John Freeman-Mitford, Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, had been ennobled as Baron Redesdale in 1802. The title had lapsed on the death of the first Baron's son.
↑  A sixth daughter, Deborah, was born in 1920. Hastings has recorded Lord Redesdale's disappointment that this final child was yet another girl; he had hoped for another son.
↑  Esmond Romilly was the son of Nellie, Clementine Churchill's younger sister, but rumours suggested that Romilly was actually the product of an affair between his mother and her brother-in-law, Winston Churchill. There was a distinct physical resemblance between the young Churchill and Romilly. In his biography of Romilly, Kevin Ingram rejects the suggestion of Churchill's paternity as unfounded, possibly invented by Nancy as a tease.
↑  In May 1940, after Hitler's invasion of the Low Countries, Esmond Romilly joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and after training as an observer was commissioned as a pilot officer. He was killed in November 1941 in the course of a bombing raid on Hamburg.
↑  Although she made a partial recovery and lived a further nine years, the damage to Unity was permanent. The bullet proved impossible to remove and eventually caused a fatal attack of meningitis.
↑  Diana was unaware of Nancy's role in her imprisonment until many years after the war. Both remained on affectionate terms during the remainder of Nancy's lifetime. However, in a television programme in 2001 Diana described her sister as "the most disloyal person I ever knew".
↑  The shop had been founded in 1936 by G. Heywood Hill. Mitford later bought a partnership in the business; her share was eventually passed to her nephew the Duke of Devonshire. Between 1995 and 2004, the shop sponsored a literary prize, which it revived in 2011 (in a revised form) to mark the bookshop's 75th anniversary.
↑  Tom, strongly pro-German, had requested that he be sent to Burma to fight the Japanese, rather than to fight against Germans.
↑  Rodd and Mitford were divorced in 1957, and he died in 1968.
↑  The terms "U and Non-U" entered the language permanently; Thompson argues that the notoriety associated with Noblesse Oblige came to haunt Mitford, partly by branding her in some eyes as a "super-snob" and partly by distracting attention from her serious writing. The Daily Telegraph's obituary in 1973 was headed: "Nancy Mitford, U and Non-U creator, dies at 68".
↑  Palewski had been conducting a simultaneous affair with another woman, a near neighbour of Mitford in Paris. In 1961 this woman bore Palewski's child. He assured Mitford that he had no intention of marrying the woman and saw no reason why his friendship with Mitford should not continue.
↑  Palewski had been conducting a simultaneous affair with another woman, a near neighbour of Mitford in Paris. In 1961 this woman bore Palewski's child. He assured Mitford that he had no intention of marrying the woman and saw no reason why his friendship with Mitford should not continue.