Quote of Note | Rebecca Mead on Daphne Guinness

“Guinness was very close to her grandmother [Diana Mitford], although she was appalled by her politics, and was with her when she died, in Paris, in 2003. She remains dismayed that Diana never publicly recanted her admiration for Hitler, whom Diana had got to know in the thirties after travelling to Germany to visit her sister Unity, who had become part of der Fuhrer’s inner circle. ‘My grandmother had grown up in the countryside, and she hadn’t been to school, and then she goes to Germany, and Unity is there, and then she becomes very, very friendly with him,’ Guinness said.