“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams...........

What an extraordinary person. Surely one of the most beautiful woman in the world. How lucky were the people who knew you. I feel life is so sad. One minute I too was young and enjoying life. Now I am old, my husband died 9 months ago after 58 years together. I am unable to walk but am blessed to live in the country. It must be wonderful to come from a large family. I watched a video on utube about how the Duchess started decorating an old vicarage and started a new garden in her 80s. She was very special. ❤️

I live 5 miles from chatsworth and often visit debos and Andrews resting places in the Edensor churchyard. Lovely lady.

This interview is a gem. The last living Mitford sister. Such a graceful lady.

Chatsworth was wonderful the first time I visited ten years ago ...and justly so last Christmas all decorated up for the season. A wonderful place to visit wit so many beautiful artefacts.

Her hearing at 90 is much better than mine at 64. She picked up the questions from the audience which I couldn’t hear at all.

We can NEVER get enough of history!

So happy to brag that I knew her.

This women is my great aunt. I currently live in nyc. I was left a great inheritance from her. Considering I met the women no more the 10 times my whole life.

Charming. Tales of a lost era.

I had great fun thanks to this lovely lovely woman

Absolutely, fantastic, and interesting woman Debo! I did get to me the Dowager Duchess at Chatsworth about 10 years ago. I was 15 and she was such a wonderful conversationalist. We talked about the grounds of Chatsworth, about the artworks, and about her enormous Devonshire tiara. All in all about an hour was spent just talking. She was so obliging and was very quick to put me at ease. I liked her very much.

Patrick Leigh Fermor RIP. Thank you from Greece.

I love how she says, "Oh Jack"

Happy belated 94th birthday Debo!!!

I had read all the books on The Mitford Sisters , so fascinating .

I was pleased to find out that the woman interviewing the Duchess is Charlotte Marten Mosley who is the wife of the Duchess’ nephew Alexander Mosley. His mother was Diana Mitford, the Duchess’ sister. Charlotte edited the Mitford sisters’ letters that she is referencing at times.

What a pleasure to listen to this grand lady!

That wonderful Mitford drawl - how we’ll miss it!

She was witty, intelligent and understated. She was elegant and self-deprecating. I wanted to know her.

Simply wonderful.

fabulous....The Duchess is so droll and amusing....not many people like this left now.R.I.P.

She's so humourous

Did you know that Debo was a huge Elvis fan and had his music played at her funeral.

So very Brilliant. A Star was lost, but you captured it for us❤️. Thank You.

This is wonderful. Debo has a beautiful voice and is such a gracious lady. The Mitfords are such a fascinating family.

Great interview

She was a bit of giggle unlike many on this planet.

Her timing is marvellous.

Fabulous Lady!!!!

Thank you so much for this wonderful interview, The Frick. Wonderful to hear.

Beautiful

So enjoyable!

All day I've been reading DDD's memoir "Wait for Me". The chapters on World War 2 brought me several times to tears. It isn't just the sorrow of those days, the loss of so very many loved ones, but also her unpretentious, beautiful, evocative style which barely veils the personal tragedies she endured. Interesting that the Duke warned in the 1980's of the danger of the rise of militant Islamism.

'Counting My Chickens' is a delightful read. Also, don't miss her letters to and from Patrick Leigh Fermor, 'In Tearing Haste'. I think she may have been one of the best writers among the Mitford sisters.

Wonderful. Thank you for uploading. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” - L.P. Hartley One only wishes it possible to return to that 'country'.

A wonderful, beautiful woman . Thank you for sharing.

"In Tearing Haste" is a wonderful book. Paddy and Debo had a marvelous correspondence lasting decades that is such a delight to read. Highly recommend this book and any of The Duchess's memoirs.

An extraordinary woman, I visited Chatsworth for the first time a few weeks ago, her presence permeated the place although I had never, until later, researched it, the Mitfords were an example of the gradual change that occurred in the political thinking of the newer, more enlightened, less shielded, members of the aristocracy, Fascists, Communists, Capitalists, what fun evening meals must have been.

How I would have loved to be her friend! RIP Debo. What a gem. So glad I got to visit Chatsworth House last year. Extraordinary! Update 2019: I just have to watch this now and then. Laughed until tears rolled again at the "Hubbling Bubbling Gland!"

Simply wonderful, ausgezeichnet!

just lovely

What a wonderful interview - I love it.

WHAT A VOICE THIS DUCHESS HAS.

The Duchess appears at about the 6 minute mark, for those who might want to spare themselves the introductory chatter

Fascinating. I love her. Thanks so much for the upload! I learned so much. And her writing style is magnificent.

A wonderful interview, and very worthwhile listening to for anyone who is a fan of the Mitford family, the books that some of them wrote, and the history of that period in general.

I do hppe that these distinguished families will prosper and prosper financially to defend and protect all the wonderful legacies.

RIP Debo

She was a real Lady! RIP! Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". The Dictionnaire de l’Académie française defines it thus: ⁕Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly. ⁕ One must act in a fashion that conforms to one's position, and with the reputation that one has earned. The Oxford English Dictionary says that the term "suggests noble ancestry constrains to honorable behavior; privilege entails to responsibility." Being a noble meant that one had responsibilities to lead, manage and so on. One was not to simply spend one's time in idle pursuits.

so glad I found this! Paddy in the bath with his black socks on did make me laugh

Very charming lady ....and a very interesting life. Sad to hear she died yesterday

I truly enjoyed this. thank you

Bygone era. Class.

I met her on a School trip many years ago and found her to be very down to earth but her husband the Duke was a bit stuffy, i belive she was the driving force behind 'Chatsworth' being more accessible

Another camera angle would have been nice. Would have been nice to have seen her face.

Jolly marvellous

Her nature is revealed when she makes eye contact and thanks the anonymous assistant.

Regardless of Politics. How many people of the 20th Century can profess to have had tea with amongst others Winston Churchill, Jack and Bobby Kennedy. The Queen. George Vl, Queen Mother, Earl Mountbatten, Charles De Gaulle and ... Adolf Hitler However, not necessarily at the same time!

cannot believe no one made a series, along the production of The Crown style, about this entire family. starting w/ period piece & their strange ,various politics & social lives. while marching thru the 20th century. Here's "2010", Her father was born in 1878(!). g5, 25 Oct2022

Many thanks for this.

A sparkling Grande Dame indeed. Never met her, but I once got lost in her yew maze at Chatsworth when I was a nipper, I still have this mild dislike of overly trimmed shrubberies. Didn't know she corresponded with Paddy Fermor for such a long time... my copy of 'In Tearing Haste' arrived today.

I never laugh at comedy or comedians , I am a bit weird, but this had me giggling.

A remarkable woman for sure

Old pre 1066 family! Wow!

RIP

Poor Debo. Such a mad, mad family. Her poor brother Tom gone as a very young man… her sister/ brother in law early deaths…Her dull marriage was full of drama sudden changes. Later later her husband a drinker who never got over his sudden succession ranting and barking the rest of his life. A very strange existence. The anecdotes are of course humorous yet the change of the political winds must had been so draining for her. Especially as she watched everyone die before her one by one by one from her palace window…

Is this the sister who was neither a communist nor a nazi? How refreshing! Sometimes, though not often, there's something to be said for staid, conventional and unimaginative.

I want the book !

We use a missal and mine was £58 and I think I left in on a chapel pew on Sunday and I ask Our Blessed Mother to show me where I left it.

So, why did that woman literally toss that blanket onto the Duchess' lap? How completely rude.

A wonderful interview! I noticed however that whenever the location of Chatsworth was mentioned (Derbyshire), the subtitles showed it as Devonshire...

The captions are wrong: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3271">54:31</a>, it's Lord Mountbatten, not Lord Mount Baton.

Jessica's nickname is not "Decker" but "Decca". Could you correct that in the captions? (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="913">15:13</a> and on)

Chatsworth. Best of the grand houses?

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1461">24:21</a> caption should read "Dinky, her daughter with Esmond Romilly" not "Esmond, probably".

Very different life lived than us ordinary folk.

Correction: you got LISMORE and County WATERFORD wrong on the sub.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1208">20:08</a> The poem goes "The hounds and the horses..." not "the hands on the horses".

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="986">16:26</a>: The Duchess is referring to cotton wool, not a cotton ball.

The subtitles refer t Drew Heims. It is rather HEINZ, as in the 57 varieties. (Not sure if it should be Drue and not Drew!)

Oh dear, it's governesses not "governances" at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1145">19:05</a> and Esmond Romilly at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1278">21:18</a>. And so on.

She mistakenly thought that Horace was a G reek poet. Paddy carried with him the Loeb edition of Horace, a Latin poet of Augustan Rome.

may i know he name of the anochour?

The German general was Kreipe.

Why does she call Edmond (Romilly), Decca's first husband, Desmond?

Cool, Frick

I LOVE YOU,.

It's Official: that vintage has gone FLAT.

Wow, that interviewer just threw that blanket at her. So rude.

I believe she means "El Rocío" not "El Rochero" in Spain.

What a ridiculously long intro, too bad

God bless the Mosley’s and Mitfords.

big lady....

I enjoyed a very different kind of laugh which I have not had the fortune of experiencing for a long time. Those who speak against aristocracies are tasteless and thoughtless.

The same tone of voice than her sister Diana...

She talks more posh than the Queen!!!!

Anna. Mitford. Hael. New York What. Is. Middle. Initial. Of. Husband. Tomas. Hael?? Wedding date. Of. Anna. Mitford. And. Tomas. Hael.??

The interviewer is not very good. Would have liked to learn more about this person instead of anecdotes of other people.

I am still a servant in service to the dollar It was the responsibility of the other servants to inform the new maid not to do her work. Therefore I view this story is one created by the knowledge of the others serving. To see the Lord upset at the expense of a girl to amuse their own needs ....???? Perspective from a servant in a position that is dependent on the servant hierarchy.