Apologies to radgurrl - my response was a bit too snippy, I know. There’s no law that says that you have to know who Jessica Mitford was. But she was such an amazing person — in her teens she ran away from her privileged background to join her (also teenaged) husband in Spain where he was fighting against Franco in…

I think the brother who fought in Spain in Pursuit of Love was based on Decca’s husband Esmond Romilly. And Jassy was based on Decca, but in the book she ran off to Hollywood instead of running off to Spain with her husband as she did in real life. Matching up the characters in the book with the real members of the…

This is wonderful, thank you and sums up my attitude to the Duchess of Devonshire too, every time I read an interview with her; all that doddery charm gets on my nerves.

You’re talking about Jessica Mitford, the author of The American Way of Death, a best-selling indictment of the funeral industry that led to Congressional hearings on the costs of funerals. But I’m sure she would have been thrilled to know that you think she “actually tried to contribute something”.

Andrew was just so embarrassing about it, though; his exploits with hookers used to make the gossip pages of the British tabloids. Mosley at least behaved in the traditional manner, i.e. if no one outside your own social circle knows about it, it didn’t happen. Mosley’s longest-lasting affair, during both his first…

Dan Savage would try to use Debo’s marriage as an example of how marriages could work without monogamy, because look how gracious and forgiving Debo was towards the Duke’s philandering and stupidity. What was she supposed to do, leave him and find another Duke? She stuck it out in the marriage because that’s what…

I don’t think Hitler ever got into Unity’s pants, they both seemed rather sexless. The weirdness was due to brain damage caused by her attempted suicide; she shot herself in the head when Germany and Britain declared war and although she survived, she never fully recovered and died a few years later. When she came…

Tom was more like their Laurie, if Laurie had been the brother of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. He was gifted in every way: handsome, smart, musically talented. Unfortunately (if you’re thinking that he doesn’t sound like a creep) he was a fascist who admired Hitler.

But when you read the article, this seems to have been Laura’s take on the breakdown of the marriage -- that she lost Heather when/because she transitioned. I’d rather hear what Laura has to say on how she was represented in the article, because it sounds as though Heather is taking Laura’s voice away from her.

My thought too -- why are we hearing from the ex-wife about Laura’s nipples? Isn’t it Laura’s prerogative to speak out (or not) as she sees fit?

Imagine 4 years of this bullshit, every day.

“Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, ‘I feel like I’m underachieving.’”

She gave away more money than a celebrity you dislike. That’s what you’re taking away from this.

It’s like Spencer Pratt paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for crystals. Apparently no-one sat him down and told him, “Kid, the money you’re making now is the most you’ll ever make, so hang onto it”.

The person you’re replying to is trolling you.