Normal Island

[Ian H]

'Twould be funny if the English girl friend's diaries turned out to be as false as the Hitler diaries.

It was the pursuit of love in a cold climate.

 

[AuroraSaab]

I think it was Stephen Fry who told a story of meeting Unity Mitford long after the war - can't remember if it was him who met her or someone else - and she was still enamoured of AH, saying 'You never met him did you? He was very funny and had very striking blue eyes' or something similar. The intellectual and aristocratic classes have always had weak spots about despots and enigmatic leaders; I don't think it's just a British thing.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I think it was Stephen Fry who told a story of meeting Unity Mitford long after the war - can't remember if it was him who met her or someone else - and she was still enamoured of AH, saying 'You never met him did you? He was very funny and had very striking blue eyes' or something similar. The intellectual and aristocratic classes have always had weak spots about despots and enigmatic leaders; I don't think it's just a British thing.

She died in 1948 and had been brain damaged for years so it wasn't her. Probably one of the other sisters.

 

[Ian H]

She died in 1948 and had been brain damaged for years so it wasn't her. Probably one of the other sisters.

That would be Diana, the fascist one. She married Oswald Mosely.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Might have been Diana actually. It was on QI. Can't imagine what the question was that would have prompted the anecdote. Maybe it was 'H' week.