Duchess of Devonshire, the last Mitford sister, dies aged 94

Death of Deborah Cavendish announced by Chatsworth House, the family seat of the Devonshires



Interview: the duchess on her famous sisters and meeting Hitler

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 same circles as Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy, Adolf Hitler and Evelyn Waugh and epitomised a privileged and glamorous aristocratic life.

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