David Freeman-Mitford and Sydney Bowles, daughter of the founder of the magazines Vanity Fair and The Lady, but they knew them as "muv" and "farv". The sisters lived at Asthall Hall, Oxfordshire ...

Mitford Castle near Morpeth is today a ruin ... He married Sydney Bowles in 1904 and managed her father’s magazine, The Lady, for a decade. There he brought a pet mongoose to the office and ...