Comments on: The S.S. Scholarship, the Sisters Mitford, and Bananas in the News http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/ Gesamtkunstblog Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christina http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-5239 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:52:03 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-5239 JFK’s Dad was ambassador to the court of St James in the 30’s, and he took all the family to London with him. Debo became very close with Kik as they were sister-in-laws, and with JFK.

]]> By: Cindy http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-204 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:59:25 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-204 P.S. – Ignore the ambassador part. I read that in Vogue, but I can’t seem to find any other source to back it up, but the Kennedys were in London in the mid 1930s, ostensibly so JFK could study at the London School of Economics.

]]> By: Cindy http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-203 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:13:36 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-203 The Duchess of Devonshire (aka Debo) has just published a memoir called ‘Wait for Me’. It should be out in the US this month, I think.

JFK’s dad was the US ambassador to the UK in the ’30s, so that’s why the Kennedys. Debo was friends with JFK’s fav sister, ‘Kick’, who married the elder brother of Debo’s husband. He was the one who ought to have been Duke, but was killed in WW2 (Kick died in a plane crash four years after) and the Dukedom passed to Debo’s husband.

]]> By: elizabeth http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-202 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:03:20 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-202 Get On

Their cousin related to Churchill was Decca’s first husband who she ran away to America with and who died in the war! Also Debo’s brother-in-law was married to JFK’s sister, Kick.

THROW THIS AWAY

]]> By: Sarah Meadows http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-200 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:05:27 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-200 I very recently read this and found it delightful:
http://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Love-Cold-Climate-Novels/dp/0375718990.

Very similar style as the letters… what a weird clan!

]]> By: cdog http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2010/11/08/the-s-s-scholarship-the-sisters-mitford-and-bananas-in-the-news/#comment-199 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:41:59 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=75#comment-199 Hail Food! Hail Dirt!
Hail Food! Hail Dirt!

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this. I have been in the dark for so long.

]]>