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Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite.
Sep 24, 2014 · Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and the last of the six eccentric Mitford sisters, who turned her husband’s ancestral estate into one of England’s grand country houses...
Duchess Deborah was an astute businesswoman and author, responsible for restoring Chatsworth following the war years. Share this. Youngest of the famous Mitford sisters, the Hon. Deborah Mitford married Lord Andrew Cavendish in 1941 in the bomb-damaged Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great in Smithfield, London.
Sep 25, 2014 · Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was charm, wit, and grandeur personified. There is nearly a century’s worth of evidence to back up that assessment.
Mar 31, 2024 · Getty Images. 'Don't you love a bit of gore?' asks Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, as I stamp away the snow on the doormat of the airy Derbyshire vicarage that has been her home since she left Chatsworth four years ago after 54 years in situ.
Sep 24, 2014 · Deborah Devonshire was an insightful literary reviewer, an outspoken defender of hunting and a longstanding fan of Elvis Presley. She never stopped loving her family home.
Sep 24, 2014 · Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and the last of the six eccentric Mitford sisters, who turned her husband’s ancestral estate into one of England’s grand country houses...
Sep 26, 2014 · “Because I’m too stupid to work the electric tills,” Deborah, dowager duchess of Devonshire, answered when explaining why she no longer worked in the shop at Chatsworth, the estate over...
Nov 6, 2010 · YEARS after the fact, Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, looked in her mother’s engagement book to see what had been written on the momentous day of March 31, 1920. Nothing. “She...
Sep 24, 2014 · Deborah Cavendish, the dowager duchess of Devonshire and the last of the six eccentric Mitford sisters, who turned her husband’s ancestral estate into one of England’s grand country houses and...
