The reply came back: “Have found Jessica Mitford, impossible to persuade her to return.”.This prompted the foreign secretary (and future prime minister) Anthony Eden to telegraph the British Consul with the words: “Find Jessica Mitford and persuade her to return.”.At 19 she eloped to Spain with her second cousin, who had just returned from fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War.Legend has it they would compete to decorate their childhood bedrooms with Hitler / Stalin.
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