"Duchess of Devonshire" Deborah Cavendish Signed 4X6 Photo For Sale

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"Duchess of Devonshire" Deborah Cavendish Signed 4X6 Photo:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Duchess of Devonshire" Deborah Cavendish Hand Signed 4X6 Color Photo. 

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Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess

of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English

aristocrat, writer, memoirist and socialite. She was the youngest and last

surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of English society in the 1930s and 1940s. Known to her

family as "Debo", Deborah Mitford was born in Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England. Her parents were David

Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Algernon

Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, and his wife, Sydney

(1880–1963), daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP.

She married Lord Andrew

Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of

Devonshire, in 1941. When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed in action in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the

dukedom and began to use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington. In 1950, on the

death of his father, the Marquess of Hartington became the 11th Duke of Devonshire.

The

Duchess was the main public face of Chatsworth for many decades. She wrote several books

about Chatsworth, and played a key role in the restoration of the house, the

enhancement of the garden and the development of commercial activities such as

Chatsworth Farm Shop (which is on a quite different scale from most farm shops,

as it employs a hundred people); Chatsworth's other retail and catering

operations; and assorted offshoots such as Chatsworth Food, which sells luxury

foodstuffs carrying her signature; and Chatsworth Design, which sells image

rights to items and designs from the Chatsworth collections. Recognising the

commercial imperatives of running a stately home, she took a very active role and was known to man

the Chatsworth House ticket office herself. She also supervised the development

of the Cavendish Hotel at Baslow, near Chatsworth, and the

Devonshire Arms Hotel at Bolton Abbey.[ In

1999, the Duchess was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)

by Queen Elizabeth II,

for her service to the Royal Collection Trust.

Upon the death of her husband in 2004, her son Peregrine Cavendish became

the 12th Duke of

Devonshire. She became the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire at this time, and

moved into a smaller house on the Chatsworth estate.

She and the duke had seven children, four

of whom died shortly after birth:

1944)

Cavendish, born in 1947)

William Lindsay Murphy in 1979, divorced 1987. In 1988 she 3rd Baron Margadale, son of James

Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale, with whom she had two children.

Following divorce she married, thirdly, William Topley in 1999.  

She was a maternal aunt of Max Mosley, former president of the Fédération

Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as well as the

grandmother of fashion model Stella Tennant.

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