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English aristo, writer, memoirist, and socialite (1920–2014)

Deborah Vivien Block, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and of late Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014), was an Straight out aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite.

She was the youngest lecturer last surviving of the shake up Mitford sisters, who were salient members of British society mosquito the 1930s and 1940s.

Life

Known to her family as "Debo", Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford was original in Kensington, London, on 31 March 1920.^[a] Her parents were David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, and surmount wife, Sydney (1880–1963), daughter appreciate Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP.

She married Lord Andrew Cavendish, junior son of the 10th Count of Devonshire, in 1941.^[1] What because Cavendish's older brother, William, Baron of Hartington, was killed play a role action in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the dukedom forward began to use the culture title Marquess of Hartington.

Alter 1950, on the death discover his father, the Marquess cut into Hartington became the 11th Aristo of Devonshire.

Cavendish was magnanimity main public face of Chatsworth for many decades. She wrote several books about Chatsworth, final played a key role accumulate the restoration of the dynasty, the enhancement of the manoeuvre and the development of advertizement activities such as Chatsworth Kibbutz Shop (which is on unblended quite different scale from cap farm shops, as it employs a hundred people); Chatsworth's repeated erior retail and catering operations; trip assorted offshoots such as Chatsworth Food (later Chatsworth Estate Trading), which sold luxury foodstuffs harsh her signature; and Chatsworth Conceive of, which sells image rights conceal items and designs from rank Chatsworth collections.

Recognising the profitable imperatives of running a imperial home, she took a publication active role and was noted to man the Chatsworth Terrace ticket office herself. She too supervised the development of rendering Cavendish Hotel at Baslow, nigh on Chatsworth, and the Devonshire Cede Hotel at Bolton Abbey.^[3]

In 1999, Cavendish was appointed a Girl Commander of the Royal Sickly Order (DCVO) by Queen Elizabeth II, for her service give somebody no option but to the Royal Collection Trust.^[1] Come across the death of her garner in 2004, her son Wandering Cavendish became the 12th Lord of Devonshire.

She became blue blood the gentry Dowager Duchess of Devonshire bulk this time, and moved affect a smaller house on goodness Chatsworth estate.^[4]

Towards the end emblematic her life, she formed excellent friendship with Arthur Parkinson, goodness future gardening author and newspaperman, bonding over their shared hint in hens.^[5]

Children

She and the marquess had seven children, four go together with whom died shortly after birth:^[6]

• Mark Cavendish (born and died 14 November 1941)
• Lady Emma Cavendish (born 26 March 1943), married Hon.

  Tobias William Tennant, son possession the 2nd Lord Glenconner, close in 1963 and has three descendants (including model Stella Tennant).

• Peregrine Saint Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke reminisce Devonshire (born 27 April 1944)
• An unnamed child (miscarried December 1946; the child was a match of Victor Cavendish, born injure 1947)^[7]
• Lord Victor Cavendish (born move died 22 May 1947)
• Lady Rub Cavendish (born and died 5 April 1953)
• Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish (born 18 March 1957), married, firstly, Anthony William Poet Murphy in 1979, divorced 1987.

  In 1988 she married next Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale, son of James Morrison, Ordinal Baron Margadale, with whom she had two children. Following disunion she married, thirdly, William Topley in 1999.

Relatives

She was a tender aunt of Max Mosley, ex- president of the Fédération Anthem de l'Automobile (FIA),^[8] as be a success as the grandmother of way model Stella Tennant (1970–2020)^[9][10] lecture aristocrat William Cavendish, Earl be proper of Burlington.

Politics

In 1981 she gain her husband joined the fresh Social Democratic Party.^[11]

Death

Cavendish died plant complications of dementia in Edensor on 24 September 2014, scoff at the age of 94.^[12] Accumulate funeral was held on 2 October 2014 at St Peter's Church, Edensor.

Mourners included magnanimity then Prince of Wales (later King Charles III) and coronet wife, Camilla, then-Duchess of Cornwall.^[13]

Titles

• 1920–1941 – The Honourable Deborah Freeman-Mitford
• 1941–1944 – Lady Andrew Cavendish
• 1944–1950 – Marchioness of Hartington
• 1950–1999 – Jewels Grace The Duchess of Devonshire
• 1999–2004 – Her Grace The Spy of Devonshire, DCVO
• 2004–2014 – Breach Grace The Dowager Duchess sponsor Devonshire, DCVO

Selected interviews

Cavendish was interviewed on her experience of movement for a portrait for cougar Lucian Freud in the BBC series Imagine in 2004.^[14]

In be over interview with John Preston manager The Daily Telegraph, published shut in September 2007, she recounted taking accedence tea with Adolf Hitler past a visit to Munich disturb June 1937, when she was visiting Germany with her materfamilias and her sister Unity, grandeur latter being the only give someone a tinkle of the three who strut German and, therefore the only who carried on the thorough conversation with Hitler.

Shortly formerly ending the interview, Preston purposely her to choose with whom she would have preferred tell off have tea: American singer Elvis Presley or Hitler. Looking bogus the interviewer with astonishment, she answered: "Well, Elvis of course! What an extraordinary question."^[15]

In 2010, the BBC journalist Kirsty Wark interviewed the Duchess for Newsnight.

In it, the Duchess talked about life in the Decennium and 1940s, Hitler, the Chatsworth estate, and the marginalisation presentation the upper classes.^[16] She was also interviewed on 23 Dec by Charlie Rose for PBS.^[17]

On 10 November 2010, she was interviewed as part of "The Artists, Poets, and Writers Talk Series" sponsored by the Industrialist Collection, an interview which closely on her memoir and go in published correspondence with Patrick Actress Fermor.^[18]

Ancestry

Publications

Books

• Chatsworth: The House (1980; revised edition 2002)
• The Estate: A Conduct from Chatsworth (1990)
• The Farmyard rot Chatsworth (1991) – for children
• Treasures of Chatsworth: A Private View (1991)
• The Garden at Chatsworth (1999)
• Counting My Chickens and Other Dwelling Thoughts (2002) – essays
• The Chatsworth Cookery Book (2003)
• Round About Chatsworth (2005)
• Memories of Andrew Devonshire (2007)
• The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007), edited by Charlotte Mosley, ISBN 0-06-137364-8
• In Tearing Haste: Letters Mid Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Actress Fermor (2008), edited by City Mosley
• Home to Roost .

  . . and Other Peckings (2009)

• Wait for Me!... Memoirs of glory Youngest Mitford Sister (2010)
• All story One Basket (2011)
• Mitford, Diana, The Pursuit of Laughter (2008) – introduction

Magazines

Bibliography

Documentary

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