With her 12 pre-World War II years at the heart of literary and intellectual society - let alone her friendship with Hitler - Diana Mosley often knew the subject of any biography better than the book's author, writes ANNE DE COURCY.

A highly important Meissen armorial beaker with the arms of Naples-Sicily and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania, circa 1737, estimate £20,000-30,000. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON .- In 1738, Elizabeth Farnese, the Queen of Spain, devised a proxy marriage between her...