Nancy Mitford: The Biography by Harold Acton

Author:Harold Acton [Acton, Harold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Historical, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781906142582
Amazon: B009ZZD7HO
Publisher: Gibson Square
Published: 2012-10-07T23:00:00+00:00

Peter Rodd had faded into the background of Nancy’s existence. He had followed many a circuitous trail in directions ever more remote from Nancy’s and they no longer had more than mixed memories in common, bitter rather than sweet. ‘To enable old Prod to get married, which he seems to want,’ Nancy was willing to divorce him as secretly as possible ‘in the hopes of avoiding much publicity’. Her marriage was dissolved without regret, probably with relief, in 1958. All her love had been lavished on ‘the Colonel’, since their meeting in London during the war. Absent or present, and he was often absent on behalf of General de Gaulle, he remained the centre of her life until she died. He admired Nancy and was deeply attached to her, but he had always been candid about not falling in love with her. He was a devoted comrade on whose sympathy, advice and intellectual refreshment she could steadfastly rely. Theirs was a very special and happy liaison—so happy that the thought of marriage did not enter into it except, perhaps, in dreams. For Nancy, in her heart of hearts, was also a bachelor in spite of her marriage. She often repeated that she preferred to live alone and I think she was sincere.’ I suspect that she would have subscribed to La Rochefoucauld’s maxim: ‘Il’y a de bons mariages, mais il n’y en a point de délicieux.’

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