With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day
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âMy dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is
White Fang. Itâs so frightfully good Iâve never bothered to read another.â So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitfordâs
The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which will be released in Australia on Amazon Prime Video later this year, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancyâs alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the âwicked lord of fictionâ, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, âstill covered with blood and hairsâ, with which he âwhacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-outâ in 1915.
The stately homes behind the Pursuit of Love: How BBC s period drama uses Rousham House in Oxforshire and world-famous Badminton to stand in for the Radletts country pile
BBC s adaptation of Pursuit of Love premiered last night, featuring Britain s stately homes as filming locations
A number of properties stand in for the Radletts family home at Alconleigh, including Rousham House
Badminton and Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire are used for their stunning gardens and period facades
Hamish was a society butterfly and chamismatic - but also gay.
Nancy s own brother Tom had had a brief schoolboy dalliance with him at Eton, and warned Nancy that the relationship was doomed to fail.
Less than a month after her breakup from Hamish St Clair Eskine, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Peter Rodd, the son of diplomat Lord Rennell (pictured together on their wedding day)
After five years of unrequited love and a heartless engagement , Hamish brutally broke it off, pretending he d decided to marry someone else.
Less than a month later, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Peter Rodd, the son of diplomat Lord Rennell.
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Emily Mortimer’s The Pursuit of Love is bold, barmy and never boring Her adaptation of Nancy Mitford s novel features subtitles, freeze-frames and loud blasts of T Rex. Since I hardly know where to begin with Emily Mortimer’s adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel
The Pursuit of Love (9 May, 9pm), I might as well start with the moment when, bang in the middle of episode one, the hairs on my head (and everywhere else) stood suddenly to attention, and I found myself dancing ecstatically around the room. No, the scene in question wasn’t, on the surface of it, terribly exciting: Lord Merlin (Andrew Scott) was instructing Linda Radlett (Lily James) in the ways of high culture, and they were gazing at paintings and follies and stuff. But when the Hot Priest, late of the parish of