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How sad. I so enjoyed her books on gardening and Chatsworth...and chickens!
http://www.chatsworth.org/deborah-devonshireThe funeral service for Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire will be held at 12 noon
at St Peter’s Church, Edensor, DE45 1PH on Thursday 2 October 2014.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
There will be refreshments at Chatsworth after the service.
No memorial service will be held, as were her express instructions.
Donations in her memory to the Addington Fund and/or Helen’s Trust will be much appreciated.
The funeral cortège will leave Chatsworth at approximately 11.15am.
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I'm really saddened to hear of her passing. Like many people I have long been fascinated by the Mitford sisters, their lives and times. It really is the end of an era. Rest in peace, Debo. !
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire died this week at the age of 94 bringing an end to the fascinating life and times of the Mitford sisters.
Deborah Vivien Cavendish and her siblings moved in the same circles as Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Adolf Hitler and Evelyn Waugh and epitomised a privileged and glamorous aristocratic life that no longer exists.
The six daughters - Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo - born between 1905 and 1920 to Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney, were the Kardashians of their day in terms of the public interest their antics aroused.
The comparison was about the public interest, that the Mitford sisters got in their day. But yeah, we're talking about two entirely different eras. And I guess there are both similarities and differences.I thought how The Daily Mail compared the Mitford Sisters to the Kardashians (of all people?) is unnecessary. To me, they couldn't be any different.
At the time of her death, she was romantically involved to another British aristocrat, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, and they were thinking about marrying. Unfortunately they both died in 1948, in a plane crash in France.JFK's connection to the Cavendishs- his sister Kathleen known as Kick married Billy the older brother of Andrew but Billy died in WWII which caused Andrew and Deborah to become the Duke/Duchess later on. Kick died in a plane crash couple of years after the war and is buried at Chatsworth.
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Are you talking about Kathleen Kennedy? I thought she was already married to a Brit at the time the plane went down...?
LaRae
No - there are actually 3 vacancies now and it is up to The Queen to fill them when she comes up with suitable candidates remembering that royals don't count in the 24.
The new Duke is also a candidate, as most, if not all the previous dukes have had the Garter so it is possible that The Queen will pass it on to the new Duke - maybe this year, maybe next (would be nice this year so he had it for the 200th anniversary of Waterloo but maybe that would be too soon for him).