I love these stories. Apart from speaking English, the Mitfords and their set would have been about as far removed from my (mostly working- or lower-middle-class) family background as you can get. Yet I’m as fascinated by them as anyone else on this thread, for some reason.

“<my mum> has moved to California and sells used cars for a living. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! I can’t wait to meet <my mum> and bastard”