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Four girls born to an aristocratic British family developed strong-minded opinions that didn't always match contemporary morality.

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...

By Princess WeekesApr 26th, 2021, 4:31 pm Last week, the trailer for upcoming BBC miniseries period drama The Pursuit of Love was released, and being the literary nerd that I am, once I saw that it was based on a book written by a woman, I ended up going into a deep dive about the author, Nancy Mitford. Nancy Mitford was part of a scandalous and celebrated family where she was one of six sisters (and one brother) whose paths in life all took interesting turns during and following World War II. If you want a little hint of what’s to come, the sisters were described by The Times journalist ...