Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO (born March 31, 1920, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England), née The Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford and known to her family as "Debo", is the youngest and last surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters whose political affiliations and marriages were a prominent feature of English culture in the 1930s and 1940s.
Mitford married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonsh...
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Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO (born March 31, 1920, Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England), née The Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford and known to her family as "Debo", is the youngest and last surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters whose political affiliations and marriages were a prominent feature of English culture in the 1930s and 1940s.
Mitford married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1941. She was then known as Lady Andrew Cavendish. When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed in combat in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the dukedom, and Deborah became the Marchioness of Hartington. When the 10th Duke died in 1950, Lord Andrew Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington became the 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah the Duchess of Devonshire.
Alongside her late husband, the Duchess was the main public face of Chatsworth for many decades, and has continued this role in her widowhood, now...
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