Hitler had been guest of honour at the wedding of Nancy’s sister Diana, when the socialite married the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, at the Berlin home of Joseph Goebbels, in October 1936. She lived out her final years on the Scottish island of Inch, dying in 1948. She made a hash of it and was left with brain damage from the bullet lodged in her brain. On the day war was declared, Unity tried to shoot herself in a Munich park. She ended up befriending Hitler, who used to stroke her hair and call her his “Little Kind”. She once etched a swastika into a window using a diamond ring. Unity became a fervent Nazi groupie, declaring publicly that, “I want everyone to know I’m a Jew hater”. In real life, Redesdale passed on his hateful views to several of his daughters. In 1937, he joined the pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic organisation The Link. Nancy’s father developed extreme right-wing opinions when she was a teenager, following financial problems brought on by a series of poor investments. Prime Suspect writer Lynda La Plante: ‘Line of Duty and Unforgotten? I find them preposterous’. Maggie Shipstead: ‘In fiction, you can “get at” attractions that don’t fit the mould of appropriateness’.Books of the month: From Rachel Cusk’s Second Place to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts.
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