If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

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.