Diana, Lady Mosley

NM was born into an upper-class English family and grew up in the Cotswolds. Much of her youth was spent living the privileged life of a young woman of her background. From the time that...

Three of NM 's sisters took up extreme political positions in the 1930s. Diana , the third in age, left her first marriage to be with Sir Oswald Mosley , leader of the British Union of Fascists

The following year Lowndes stayed with Trefusis at West Coker Manor. At this time VT nurtured her (often edgy) relationship with writer Nancy Mitford , who moved from England to Paris in April...

NM is less concerned to depict the evil than the stupidity inherent in fascism and nazism : I don't quite know what an Aryan is.Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link...

In her third novel, Wigs on the Green, NM satirized the fascist sympathies of her sisters Unity and Diana .