A Look Back at the Mitford Family and ‘Bright Young Things’ Crowd in Archival Photos
The Mitford family photographic print
The Mitford family photographic print
1932: Three of the Mitford sisters at Lord Stanley of Aldernay’s wedding. From left to right: Unity Mitford; Diana Mitford (Mrs Bryan Guinness, later Lady Diana Mosley) and writer Nancy Mitford.
17th June 1934: Left to right: American actress and dancer Adele Astaire, wife of Lord Charles Cavendish; Princess Polny; Tallulah Bankhead; Tilly Losch; and Cecil Beaton with a flock of doves at his home ‘Ashcombe’ in Wiltshire.
9th November 1955: The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at the Dorchester.
Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.
Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.
Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.
Nancy Mitford photographed at her Paris home located on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur on December 12, 1964.
Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for photographs and discusses his design plans for the new club, called Raffles, which will open in the basement of The Sherry-Netherland Hotel in October on August 16, 1968 in New York City.
Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.
Photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton poses for portraits in a St. Regis New York hotel suite on September 20, 1966 in New York City.
(L-R) Eunice Shriver, Pamela Harriman, Edmund Muskie, and Jane Muskie attend a fundraiser for Edmund Muskie’s presidential campaign in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 1972.
Jessica Mitford in New York, September 4, 1973.
Jessica Mitford in New York, September 4, 1973.
Pamela Harriman (L) and W. Averell Harriman (R) attend a fundraising dinner presented by the Democratic Study Group, honoring New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, at the Sheraton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 1974.
Pamela Harriman (R) attends the 90th birthday party for Alice Roosevelt Longworth in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 1974.
The Hon Diana Mitford (1910 – 2003), second wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet, English politician and leader of the British Union of Fascists.
(L-R) Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford), Jerry Zipkin, and Evangeline Bruce attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.
Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford) attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.
Evangeline Bruce (L) and Deborah Cavendish (née Mitford) attend a party, celebrating the National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit “Treasure Houses of Britain,” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1985.
Jessica Mitford and guests attend an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.
Patricia Mosbacher attends an event at the central branch of the New York Public Library in New York City on November 10, 1988.
Deborah Cavendish the Dowager. Duchess of Devonshire at the Old Vicarage.