Giraud, Henri, 137–8
Gladys (NM’s maid), 128
Godebski, Cyprien, 71
Godebski, Jean, 71
Goering, Hermann, 96
Gollancz, (Sir) Victor, 62
Gondar, Ethiopia, 126
Gordon, Idina, 154
Gould, Anna, 251
Gould, Florence, 251–2
Gramont, Count Louis-René and Countess Antoinette de (née Rochechouart-Mortemart), 197
Gramont, Marguerite de (Margot), 197–8, 255
Grey, Lady Jane, 134
Gronchi, Giovanni, 218
Groult, Jean, 172
Guggenheim, Peggy, 243
Guinness, Alexander, 134
Guinness, Bryan (later 2nd Baron Moyne) marriage to Diana, 39, and Bruno Hat hoax, 41, Diana leaves, 45, buys NM’s wedding dress, 54, allowance to Diana, 67
Guinness, Jonathan The House of Mitford, 134
Guitry, Sacha, 163
Guy, Captain, 170
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, 126
Hammersley, Violet (née Williams-Freeman), 90, 94, 98, 128, 215
Hanfstaengl, Putzi, 59
Harcourt, Charles Jean Mane, Duc d’, 251
Harcourt, Thyra, Duchesse d’, 251
Harker, Alan, 98
Harrod, Henry, 82
Harrod, (Sir) Roy, 85
Harrod, Wilhelmina, Lady (‘Bilk’), 82, 154
Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of (née Kennedy), 93
Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of, 93
Hat, Bruno (hoax), 41
Hatherop Castle (school), 29
Hayworth, Rita, 123
Heller, Gerhard, 252
Helleu, Paul-Cesar, 23, 130
Hepburn, Audrey, 244
Hill, Ann, 132
Hill, (George) Heywood (bookshop), 132, 155–6
Hitler, Adolf Unity’s attachment to, 49, 60, 88–9, dislikes make-up, 58–9, Diana meets, 59, 88, totalitarianism, 77, arranges transfer of Unity to Switzerland, 90, NM’s hatred of, 94–5, and occupation of Czechoslovakia, 97
Hogg, Quintin (later Baron Hailsham), 85
homosexuality among young men, 36–7
Hope-Vere, Romie, 181
Horizon (magazine), 252
Howard, Brian, 30, 33–5
Hozier, Lady Blanche, 203
Hull, Cordell, 147
Huxley, Juliette, 128
In Which We Serve (film), 184
Inch Kenneth (island), Hebrides, 89
Institut Charles de Gaulle, 261
Inter-Allied Club, Algiers, 139
Ismay, General Hastings Lionel (later 1st Baron, ‘Pug’), 103
Italy GP’s view on democracy in, 232, trade interests in North Africa, 232–3, de Gaulle’s state vitit to (1959), 233, see also Rome
Jackson, Derek marriage to Pamela, 88
Jackson, Hugh, 246
Jackson, Pamela see Mitford, Pamela
James, Henry, 40
Jan, Armand, 31
Jay family, 200
Jay, Peter, 200
Jebb, Gladwyn (later 1st Baron Gladwyn), 94, 98
Jews Fascist hostility to, 65
John XXIII, Pope (Monseigneur Roncalli), 231–2
Johnson, Paul, 120, 189, 207
Josephine, Empress of Napoleon I, 177
Jouvenal, Mme Henri de, 217
Joxe, Louis, 215
Junger, Ernst, 251–2
Karnow, Stanley, 171
Kennedy, Joseph, 93
Keppel, Alice, 198
Khrushchev, Nikita, 239
King, Admiral Ernest, 147
Kipling, Rudyard, 223
Koenig, General Marie Pierre, 146
Koenig, Rhoda, 226
Kraus, Alfred, 163
Kraus, Jacqueline, 163
Lady, The (magazine) NM writes weekly column for, 36
Lafayette, Madame de La Princesse de Cleve, 192
La Guardia, Fiorello, 147–8
Lancaster, (Sir) Osbert, 136
Laroche, Baroness, 59
La Rochefoucauld, Aimery de, 70
Laurent, Jean, 107
Laval, Pierre, 72, 76, 217
Lawton, Frederick, 96–7
League of Nations, 73
Leahy, Admiral William D, 147
Lebrun, Albert, 105, 160
Leclerc de Hautecloque, Général Philippe, 116, 149, 150
Lees-Milne, Alvilde, 254
Lees-Milne, James, 21, 36–7, 84, 88, 131, 199, 221
Legentilhomme, Général Paul, 127
LeLuc, Amiral, 112–13
Lequercia, Jose Felix de, 106
Levy, Daniel, 66
Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron, 69
Lopez, Arturo, 190
Lovelace, Richard, 19, 208
Lubbock, Adelaide, 131, 156
Luchaire, François, 240
Ludres, Marquise de, 123
Luizet, Charles, 149
Lyautey, Maréchal Hubert, 48–50, 68, 72, death, 73, 75
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 63, 122
Maginot Line, 77
Maheu, Renée, 242
Malraux, André, 153, 171, 173, 217, 240, 257
Mandel, Georges, 104, 107
Marais, Le (château), 251, 253
Margene, Roland de, 217
Marie (NM’s Paris maid), 157–8, 189, 254
Marriott, Momo, 189, 194, 201
Marshall, General George, 147
Marshall Plan, 172–3
Martin, Yvan, 113
Mass Observation, 119–20
Massigli, Odette, 183
Mattel, Enrico, 233
Maugham, W Somerset, 79
Maunac, Claude, 252
Maunac, François, 177
Maxwell, Sir Alexander, 98
Mayer, René, 212
Mendès-France, Pierre, 213
Mers el-Kebir French fleet attacked by British at, 112–14
Messel, Oliver, 34, 41
Metcalf, Lady Alexandra (née Curzon, ‘Baba’), 59, 123, 206
Metcalfe, Major Edward (‘Fruity’), 123
Miribel, Elisabeth de, 172
Missoffe, François, 246
Mitford, Jessica dislikes country life, 25–7, on family life with Nancy, 29, at Swinbrook House, 34–5, plans to run away, 35, on homosexuality, 37, political extremism, 49, hostility to Fascism, 63, accompanies NM on holiday to Brittany, 80, commitment to Communism, 80, elopement and mariage with Romilly, 80–2, meets working class members, 87, and NM’s work in French officers’ club, 130, visits NM during final illness, 255, 259, Hons and Rebels, 25
Mitford, Nancy meets GP, 1, 133–4, relations with Waugh, 3, 34, 40, on U and non-U, 3, 193, passion for GP, 4–5, family background, 20–1, birth and upbringing, 23–4, as countrywoman, 26–8, 229, reading, 27, private family languages (Boudledidge and Honnish), 28, terrorizes siblings, 28, attends Hatherop Castle (school), 29, on cultural tour of Paris and Italy, 29–30, as debutante, 32–4, attends Slade as art student, 35, social restrictions as young woman, 35, writing ambitions and journalism, 35–6, falls for Hamish St Clair Erskine, 36–9, 43–4, innocence about male homosexuality, 37–8, marriage prospects, 38, in Paris with Waugh and Guinnesses, 39–40, suicide attempt, 39, 42, self-portrayal in novel, 42, breaks with Hamish, 45–6, engagement and marriage to Peter Rodd, 46, 51–4, 255, political convictions, 49, 85, 94, honeymoon in Rome, 54–7, sexual experience, 56, interior decorating, 57, view of Fascism, 60–2, 64–7, collecting, 72, need for beauty, 77, marriage difficulties, 79, moves to Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, 79, attempts to dissuade Jessica from marriage to Romilly, 81, condemns Fascism and Hitler, 81, 87, 94–5, hopes for children, 82–3, pregnancies and miscarriages, 83, 85, 131–2, hysterectomy, 84, stoicism, 84–5, follows Rodd to France to aid Spanish refugees, 86–7, at outbreak of war, 89, anti-Americanism, 92–3, 117, 202, 225–7, 229–30, 241, 244, denounces Diana in war,
94–5, 98–9, writes to Diana in prison, 99, supports Free French, 122, endures London Blitz, 128, works at White City canteen for French soldiers, 128–9, marriage to Peter collapses, 130–1, affair with Desplats-Pilter, 131, works at Heywood Hill bookshop, 132, attitude to sex, 134–6, intimacies with GP, 135–7, fondness for food, 136, and GP’s return from Algiers, 143, visits and settles in Paris after war, 153, 155–6, portrayal of characters in fiction, 154, acquires partnership in Heywood Hill, 155, wealth from writings, 156, PG fails to marry, 157, settles into Rue-Monsieur flat, 157–8, dedicates Pursuit of Love to GP, 159, enjoys black market privileges in France, 166, on French elections (October 1945), 166–7, coolness towards Louise de Vilmonn, 181, dress and style, 186–7, relations with GP in Pans, 188–92, social life and entertaining in Paris, 189–91, literary output, 192, translations from French, 192–3, visit to USSR, 194, and GP’s infidelities, 196–200, 207–9, friendship with SusanMary Alsop, 201, attitude to adultery, 204, 207–8, and GP’s appointment to Rome, 215–16, loses GP’s affections, 218–19, meets GP at Orly, 218, visits GP in Rome, 220, divorce from Rodd, 221 on civilized values, 224–30, 243, and birth of GP’s son, 236, 243, accepts no happy ending with GP, 237, rumour of prospective marriage, 237, supports Save Venice campaign, 241, and Waugh’s death, 244–5, and French student riots (1968), 245–8, moves to Versailles, 245–6, and GP’s marriage to Violette, 250, 253–5, cancel, 255, longs for death, 258–9, awarded Legion d’Honneur, 259, death, 260, cremation and grave, 261, The Blessing, 2, 4, 18, 55, 70, 72, 136, 154, 179, 182, 186, 193, 198, 202–3, 2–07, 224, 226, 248, ‘Chic – English, French and American’ (essay), 187–8, Christmas Pudding, 25, 43–4, 56, 187, 204, 260, Don’t Tell Alfred, 4, 166, 175, 182, 201–2, 217, 224, 228, 241, Frederick the Great, 255–6, Highland Fling, 40–2, 56, 229, Love in a Cold Climate, 4, 82, 188, 192–3, 204, Pigeon Pie, 55, 91–5, 181, The Pursuit of Love, 1, 13, 15, 25, 28, 33, 82, 133, 143, 153, 154, 156, 158, 186, 192, 208, 226, 230, The Stanleys of Alderley (ed ), 52, 226, 228, 248, The Sun King, 29, 259, The Two Old Ladies of Eaton Square, 93, Wigs on the Green, 58, 60–2, 64–7. 79 91. 94. 248
Mitford, Pamela (NM’s sister, “Woman’) birth, 23, country life, 28, dislikes Mosley, 45, objects to Mosley’s behaviour, 66, attempts to have children, 82, marriage to Jackson, 88, pro-Fascist views, 88, visits NM during final illness, 255
Mitford, Tom (NM’s brother) birth, 23, piano-playing, 27, education, 29, NM writes to from Pans, 29–30, homosexual experiences, 36, and Bruno Hat hoax, 41, death in war, 85, 244, pro-German views, 88, NM discusses reading with, 224
Mitford, Unity (NM’s sister) schooling, 29, and Diana’s attachment to Mosley, 45, infatuation with Nazism and Hitler, 49, 59–60, 63, 88–9, uses make-up, 59, condemns Wigs on the Green, 62, and Jessica’s elopement with Romilly, 80–1, failed suicide attempt, 89–90, survival and death, 90, life wrecked, 95, attends NM’s wartime party, 132
Mitford, William (NM’s grandfather), 21
Monnet, Jean, 105, 108
Montespan, Athenais de, 252
Morocco GP in, 49, Italian interests in, 232–3
Mortimer, Raymond, 79, 133, 183
Mosley, Alexander, 57
Mosley, Cynthia, Lady (née Curzon), 44–5, 205
Mosley, Diana, Lady (née Mitford, NM’s sister) birth, 23, portrait by Helleu, 23, marriage to Bryan Guinness, 39, and Bruno Hat hoax, 41, affair with Mosley, 44–5, political extremism, 49, sexual passion, 56, interior decorating, 57, meets Hitler, 59, 88, 95, commitment to Fascism, 63, 64, 66, estrangement from NM, 67, marriage to Mosley, 67, 95, 206, and NM’s Wigs on the Green, 6j, NM denounces in war, 94–5, 98, raises money in Germany for commercial radio station, 96, imprisoned in war, 98–9, and NM’s dedication of book to GP, 159, and husband’s adultery, 204–6,
Mosley, Diana, Lady–contd on GP’s marriage to Violette, 253–5, and NM’s cancer, 255, visits NM during final illness, 255, 259, NM dedicates Frederick the Greatto, 256, and GP’s calling on NM during illness, 258, declines invitations to Le Marais, 259
Mosley, Max,
Mosley, Sir Oswald Diana’s affair with, 44–5, 49, 56, affair with BabaCurzon, 59, Fascism, 61, 64–5, anti-Semmsm, 65, marriage to Diana, 67, 95, meets Hitler, 95, on BUF wartime policy, 96–7, and Cable Street march and riots, 96, imprisoned in war, 97, masculinity, 134–5, philandering, 197, 204–6, GP’s liking for, 257–8
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina (later Countess), 32
Moyne, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron, 98
Muggendge, Malcolm, 152, 164
Mugmer, Abbè, 70
Muhlstem, Anatole, 194–5
Muhlstein, Anka, 2, 195
Munich Agreement (1938), 77, 85
Mussolini, Benito, 76, 96, 102, 217
National Committee of French Liberation (CFLN), 138
National Liberation Front of Algeria (FNL), 214
Nazi-Soviet pact (1939), 77
New Look, the, 187–8
New York Free World (newspaper), 173
Nicolson, (Sir) Harold, 64, 123, 135, 183, 205, 236
Noailles, Anna de, 69
Noailles, Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de, 177–8, 200, 257
Nogues, General Auguste, III
North Africa French administration, 137–8, Italian trade interests in, 232–3, see also Algeria, Morocco
Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 79, 176, 179, 183, 196, 205, 207 nuclear tests (French), 239
Oberle, Jean, 178
Ogilvie-Grant, Mark friendship with NM, 34, and NM’s attitude to homosexuals, 37–8, and NM’s relations with St John Erskme, 39, and publication of Highland Fling, 42, and NM’s marriage to Peter Rodd, 53–4, financial limitations, 57, helps NM acquire furnishings, 57, portrayed in Pigeon Pie, 93, and imprisonment of Oswald Mosley, 97, death, 257
Olivier, Laurence, Baron, 183
O’Neill, Mary (later Gascoigne, ‘Middy’), 175
Ordre de la Libération, 116
Orwell, George, 87, 120, 223
Out of Bounds (magazine), 80
Oxford Worcester College, 16, 19
Palewski, Dominique (GP’s nephew), 13, 50
Palewski, Gaston in Addis Ababa, 1, 125–7, appearance, 1–2, 181, 196, 235, NM meets, 1, 133–4, portrayed as Sauveterre in The Pursuit of Love, 1, 3, 134, 154, 195, sex appeal, 2, 235, family background, 9–12, birth, 12, social ambitions and snobbery, 13, 18, 19, 69, 71, 178, 235, transfers to North Africa, 13–14, 107, in, education, 14–16, fluency in English, 14, interest in art, 16, studies at Worcester College, Oxford, 16–19, glves Helleu painting to NM, 23, temporary military service (1923–4), 47–8, posted to Rabat as attache to Lyautey, 48–50, political commitment, 49, spiritual dimension, 50, relations with Proust, 69, converts to Christian faith, 70–1, family pride, 70, joins publishing house Boivin, 71, works as secretary for Democratic Alliance and Paul Reynaud, 71–3, 77–8, apartment in Rue Bonaparte, 72, 76, collecting, 72, meets de Gaulle, 73, 75–6, and war threat, 76–8, need for beauty, 77, and NM’s childlessness, 83, serves in air force in war, 100–1, prescience, 105–6, joins de Gaulle in war, 106, arrives in London (1940), 114, promotes de Gaulle’s cause in Britain, 115, de Gaulle appoints director of political affairs, 116, view of USA, 117–18, attempts to control de Gaulle, 121, social life in Britain in war, 122–3, appointed to command Free French forces in East Africa, 125–7, stripped of French citizenship in war, 126, as de Gaulle’s director of Cabinet, 127–8, 160, NM’s intimacies with, 135–7, travels to Algiers with de Gaulle, 137, friendship with Lady Diana Cooper, 138–9, 176, 184, returns to London from Algiers, 143, accompanies de Gaulle on visit to USA, 146–8, returns to France with de Gaulle, 146, enters liberated Pans, 150, 152, NM visits in Pans after war, 153, 155, furnishings of Paris flat, 155, fails to marry NM, 157, life with NM in Paris, 158–9, NM dedicates Pursuit of Love, 159, office in Paris, 160, arranges residence for de Gaulles in France, 161, Mme de Gaulle dislikes, 161–2, and conditions in France after liberation, 166, seen as eminence gris, 168, 170–1, and el
ections (1945), 169–70, falls ill, 169, made officer of Leégion d’Honneur, 171, use of cologne, 171, and de Gaulle’s resignation, 172, doubts on Marshall Plan, 172–3, drafts manifesto for RPF, 173, journalistic commissions, 173, attitude to collaborationists, 177–80, NM resumes familiarity with in Pans, 188–92, weeps at Coopers’ departure from Pans, 190, negotiates in Moscow, 194, 211, womanizing and affairs, 196–9, 201, 207–9, 235 electioneering tours in France, 210–11, wins seat as RPF member for Seine, 211, political appointments and career, 212–13, advocates nuclear power, 213, appointed ambassador to Rome, 215–19, 235, supports European Community, 218, NM loses, 219–21, NM visits in Rome, 220–1, relations with Pope John XXIII (Roncalh), 231–2, and Italian trade interests in North Africa, 232–3, paper on Italian democracy, 232, entertaining at Rome embassy, 233, restores Farnese Palace, 234, birth of son, 236, 243, as minister for scientific research, atomic energy and space, 238–9, meets Khrushchev, 239, as president of Constitutional Council, 240–1, 256–7, resigns from government (1965), 240, and Save Venice campaign, 241–2, supports European cultural federalism, 242–3, tribute to Waugh, 244, and student riots of 1968 249, marriage to Violette, 250, 253–4, visits NM in Versailles, 250, and de Gaulle’s 1969 resignation, 256–7, visits NM during final illness, 258–9, gives Légion d’Honneur to NM, 259, visits Mosleys, 259, cultural activities in later years, 260, death (1984), 260–1, marriage relations, 260–1, The Atom, Our Destiny, 214, Mémoires d’Action, 105
Palewski, Jean-Paul (GP’s brother) family background, 9–10, 70, visits museums as boy, 12, brilliance as student, 14, criticises GP’s need for affection, 15, visits Poland, visits GP at work in publisher’s office, mobilized in World War 11, 100, captured and interned in war, 113, and French wartime actions against GP, 126, childhood, 251, not told of GP’s marriage, 253
Palewski, Maurice (Moise, GP’s father), 9–14, 68
Palewski, Peisach Abramovich (GP’s grandfather), 10
Palewski, Rachel (née Notkowa, GP’s grandmother), 10
Palewski, Rose (née Diamant-Berger, GP’s mother) marriage, 11–12, on GP’s adolescent laziness, 14, affectionate nature, 15–16, and GP’s career, 68, 71, GP seeks to safeguard against Germans, 106, concern for GP’s health, 169
Palewski, Violette (GPs wife) see Pourtales, Violette de
Paley, Babe, 244
Palffy Erdody, Count Paul, 179, 181
Panafieu, François de, 114