The real Mitford Sisters - Letters 5

👑💃🕺 Royal Flashmobs & Presidential Playboys: The Mitford Letters (1960–1963) 🇺🇸🤠

The sisters have officially entered middle age, but if you thought they were settling down into quiet retirement, you clearly don’t know the Mitfords. In part five of our letters deep dive, you’ll get a lot of aristocratic gossip, a coronation, an inauguration, and two funerals.

We kick off with the family’s complex reactions to Decca’s first memoirs, before diving into some royal robes, pomp, and circumstances. But the real meat plays out across the Atlantic. We explore Debo’s surprisingly close personal ties to the Kennedys, particularly to the most sexy American president to date. How exactly did Debo find out that the president’s body is one to "worship”?

Chapters: 

0:00:00 Episode teaser

0:00:42 Intro & Recap - into the middle age

0:03:17 Decca’s first memoir - Family reactions

0:13:11 A bit of trash talk - those dogs were just too much!

0:18:56 Coronations, Presidents & Royal Flashmobs (& Harry Potter)

0:27:27 JFK’s Presidential Inauguration (“almost biblical”)

0:37:31 JFK & sex and Eisenhower& golf

0:39:48 Debo & JFK - it’s getting juicy!

0:44:08 American (& British) Ways of Death 

0:52:04 Debo & “the loved one” (who is very fit!)

1:00:13 Muv’s death 

1:06:58 JFK’s visit to Chatsworth

1:10:42 JFK’s death & funeral 

1:18:07 Wrap & Outlook (more memoirs on the horizon)

For everyone who wants to dive deeper into the letters, you can find out more about “The Book” here “Letters between Six Letters”

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