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The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

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Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

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Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Queen Ranavalona I of the Kingdom of Imerina (present-day Madagascar) violently purged her kingdom of foreign influence, ...