Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1989,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My cast away this week is an exile. She is a Midford girl, one of the six fascinating daughters of Lord Reeddale.

This daughter married Sir Oswald Mosley, the man who was the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

Like him, she was imprisoned during much of the war

and accompanied him abroad once it was over.

Since his death nearly nine years ago,

she has lived alone just outside Paris. Today, 50 years after the

events which changed her life forever, she remains an example of the passions and

tragedies of her family as well as a reminder of things that were and those that might have been.

She is Diana Mosley. I call you an exile, Lady Mosley, but that's a self-imposed state isn't it? Oh it is yes I don't consider

myself an exile at all I just prefer to live now Paris. You live in what I read is a beautiful Palladian country house. Can you describe it to me?

Well, it's a tiny little house, but it is very beautiful.

And the garden, tell me about the garden. Well it's got a

garden, it's got a flower garden, I suppose you might say a sort of

English garden, but I don't allow any flowers near the house. It's all green

and stone and hedges and lawn.

Why do you not like to have flowers near the house?

Because I think it's quite unsuitable for Palladian

which is in essence really Italian. So it should be I think green. Now is

that house would you say having spent the best part of the last 50 years there

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