3 w. ago Outrageous star James Purefoy teases season 2 for period drama ‘They’d be mad not to’

U and U&Drama’s new historical series Outrageous has scored rave reviews, but will the Mitford sisters’ story continue?

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Outrageous: This Downton Abbey with added fascism is frightfully unconvincing

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Set in the gilded world of the British aristocracy, all country houses and glittering debutante dances, it's the story of the six ultra-privileged Mitford sisters.

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3 w. ago Peaky Blinders and Outrageous share a big character fans might have missed

Outrageous tells the story of the Mitford sisters

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3 w. ago JOANNA VANDERHAM on playing Diana Mosley, 'the most hated woman in England' in the hotly anticipated TV drama about the colourful lives of the Mitford sisters

She plays 'the most hated woman in England' in a hotly anticipated TV drama, but Scottish actress JOANNA VANDERHAM, 34, could hardly be more different.

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4 w. ago The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?

They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friendsThe rise and fall of the Mitford sisters is like one of those earthquakes we’re due on a regular rotation: eight years out from Gucci’s much-documented Never Marry a Mitford jumper, four years after the BBC drama The Pursuit of Love, a new TV show appears fortuitously to bring them back into the public consciousness again.Here they come, out of the mists of time, the seven children of a minor member of the House of Lords: Nancy, of course, the author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love and probably the most famous in her own right; followed by Pamela, the least famous and fond chiefly of chickens and horrible men; then Tom, the only boy, with a weakness for the Nazis and, as far as history is concerned, no personality. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago AD FEATURE: An explosive novel, a teenage infatuation and a dangerous affair

A new drama on free streaming service U brings the various scandals surrounding England’s notorious Mitford sisters to life

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