Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and last of the flamboyant “Mitford Girls,” has died aged 94. Her death was announced by her son in a statement released by the family’s estate, ...

The last of the famous Mitford sisters has died. Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was the youngest and most sensible of six sisters from a colourful upper-crust family who scandalised 1930s ...

Her eyesight is failing and she can’t read much anymore, but that hasn’t dampened the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire’s passion for the written word — preferably handwritten. “I can’t do e-mail. I’m too ...

LONDON — Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire who died on Wednesday at age 94, was one of Britain’s most celebrated chatelaines, a prolific nonfiction writer and an entrepreneur. Though she ...

Prince Charles had led tributes to the "wonderfully ordinary" Dowager Duchess of Devonshire who passed away on Wednesday aged 94. The prince said that both her and his wife were "deeply saddened" to ...

She was born Deborah Vivien Mitford, into a family of English blue-bloods who dominated the society pages for much of the early 20th century. Her family called her Debo. When she died last week at the ...

Hundreds of possessions which chronicle the life of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire have sold for over £1.7m. The Duchess, who was the last of the fabled Mitford sisters and lived at Chatsworth ...

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The last of the famous Mitford sisters has died. Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was the youngest and most sensible of six sisters from a colourful upper-crust family who scandalised 1930s ...

The last of the famous Mitford sisters, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, has died at the age of 94, her son has said. Deborah Vivien Cavendish and her siblings moved in the s ame circles as Winston ...