The REAL Pursuit of Love: How Nancy Mitford borrowed from her family's VERY tumultuous love lives
Hamish was a society butterfly and chamismatic - but also gay. Nancy's own brother Tom had had a brief schoolboy dalliance with him at Eton, and warned Nancy that the relationship was doomed to fail. Less than a month after her breakup from Hamish St Clair Eskine, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Peter Rodd, the son of diplomat Lord Rennell (pictured together on their wedding day) After five years of unrequited love and a heartless 'engagement', Hamish brutally broke it off, pretending he'd decided to marry someone else. Less than a month later, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Pete...
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