page_title: Unity Mitford
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Unity Mitford / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Headstones on the graves of Nancy, Unity and Diana Mitford. Church of England parish church of St. Mary the Virgin, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.
context_page_description: Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford was a British socialite, known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism, fascism and antisemitism, and belonged to Hitler's inner circle of friends. After the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, and was officially allowed safe passage back to England in her invalid condition, but never recovered.
  Unity was a member of the Mitford family, tracing its origins in Northumberland back to the 11th-century Norman settlement of England. Her sister Diana was married to Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
context_section_description: Mitford was taken seriously ill on a visit to the family-owned island of Inch Kenneth and was taken to hospital in Oban. Doctors had decided it was too dangerous to remove the bullet in her head. On 28 May 1948, Mitford died of meningitis caused by the cerebral swelling around the bullet.  She was buried at Swinbrook Churchyard. The inscription on her gravestone reads: "Say not the struggle naught availeth."
caption: Unity Mitford's grave, between sisters Nancy (left) and Diana (right)
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