The Mitford Sisters | Part One: life of the week

In the first of two episodes, Mary S Lovell unpacks the extraordinary and outrageous lives of the six aristocratic sisters who scandalised society and reflected the extremes of the 20th century

Published: July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM

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For much of the 20th century, six sisters from Britain’s minor aristocracy had a knack for making headline after scandalous headline. They were Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford. Now, the sisters' incredible shared story has been adapted into a TV drama called Outrageous – based on the best-selling biography by Mary S Lovell. In this first of two episodes, Mary explores the sisters’ lives up to the end of the Second World War in 1945. Speaking to Danny Bird, she covers the hedonistic 1920s, the ideological rupture between fascism and communism in the 1930s, and how the sisters seemed to be on the frontlines of history, wherever it was happening.

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Danny BirdContent producer

Danny Bird is a content producer at HistoryExtra

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