1941

DEBORAH MITFORD, 21, was the youngest daughter of Lord Redesdale and Sydney Bowles, whose father, a Tory MP, founded the magazines Vanity Fair and The Lady. The six Mitford sisters were the ‘It’ girls of the Forties and epitomised privileged, glamorous aristocratic life, but ‘Debo’ was the most respectable (several of the sisters counted Hitler as a friend and Diana was imprisoned for fascism). Deborah became a Duchess when she married Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire.