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Well I had my luncheon with Monty. He is terribly like my Dad -- watch in hand when I arrived (the first, luckily) only drinks water, has to have the 9 o'clock news & be in bed by 10, washes his own shirts, rice pudding his favourite food. All my books by his bed & when he gets to a daring passage he washes it down with Deuteronomy. But Oh the glamour!
Nancy Mitford, on having lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery: from The Letters of Nancy Mitford, ed. Charlotte Mosely, 1993
La Toilette: Francois Boucher, 1742 (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)
Nancy Mitford: Mogens Tvede, c. 1948 (National Portrait Gallery, London/The Nancy Mitford Archive)
Nancy Mitford: Mogens Tvede, c. 1948 (National Portrait Gallery, London/The Nancy Mitford Archive)