Diana Mosley by Anne de Courcy

Author:Anne de Courcy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House

Diana’s fourth son, Max, was born on 13 April in a Sutton nursing home. After three boys, many women would have wanted a daughter, but Diana was delighted. She had grown up in a household of girls and women; boys were a refreshing change. Born into an era when marriage was virtually the only female career, she was very conscious of the effect of a woman’s looks on her fate and she had a secret dread of giving birth to a plain daughter. Also, given her own height and Mosley’s (five feet ten inches and six feet two inches respectively), she imagined that any daughter would be extremely tall. The sight of Unity, her height now exaggerated by increasing weight, her once handsome face distorted by ill health, was like a caricature of her fears.

Late in April she returned to Savehay. Wootton had been given up at the end of the March quarter and Savehay was again the Mosley headquarters. The three youngest Mosley children – Micky, Alexander and Max – lived there with their respective nannies; Viv used it as a base; and Nicholas Mosley and Jonathan and Desmond Guinness returned there in the holidays.

Since the outbreak of war Mosley had been actively promulgating a negotiated peace. ‘I find his attitude quite dreadful,’ wrote Baba Metcalfe in her diary on 16 February 1940:

You can’t make him admit Germany is to blame. He thinks we will never win the war, with the present Government. They commit folly after folly. He thinks Germany has more staying power than us: a long war of waiting is to their advantage and not to ours. . . . At the end of a devastating war he thinks the Empire will be lost and we may be on our knees.

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