An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

In the Angel television series' episode "She" a reference is made about a flower called "Nancy's Petticoat" and how it was named after Nancy Mitford. The owners of her Paris apartment needed it back for their children Nancy Mitford wanted a garden and her Parisian friends were dying (Evelyn Waugh in 1966). Heywood Hill and was unfaithful in her turn.

She is best remembered for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France particularly the four publiNancy Mitfordd after 1945; but Nancy Mitford also wrote four popular biographies (of Louis XIV Madame de Pompadour Voltaire and Frederick the Great). Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon.