Jessica Mann
Down with Hons
The Letters of Nancy Mitford
By Charlotte Mosley (ed)
Hodder & Stoughton 538pp £20 order from our bookshop
As long ago as 1960 the prescient Malcolm Muggeridge wrote: ‘To survive in the new climate of ostensible egalitarianism the upper class and the monarchy have to become a soap opera. The Mitfords have made a considerable contribution towards showing how this can be done.’
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