Editing Unity Mitford (section)

{{Short description|English socialite best known as a devotee of Adolf Hitler}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[The Honourable]]
| name               = Unity Mitford|
| image              = Unity-Mitford.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = Mitford in 1937
| birth_name         = Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1914|08|08|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1948|05|28|1914|08|08|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Oban]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom]]
| death_cause        = [[Meningitis]] caused by a bullet which remained in her brain after self-inflicted gunshot
| resting_place      = Swinbrook Churchyard
| party                 = [[British Union of Fascists]]
| parents            = [[David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale]]<br/>Sydney Bowles
| relatives          = See [[Mitford family]]
}}

'''Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford''' (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British [[fascist]] and [[socialite]] and member of the [[Mitford family]] known for her relationship with [[Adolf Hitler]]. Both in the United Kingdom and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of [[Nazism]], [[fascism]] and [[antisemitism]], and belonged to Hitler's inner circle of friends. 

When [[United Kingdom declaration of war on Germany (1939)|the United Kingdom declared war on Germany]] she attempted [[suicide]] in Munich by shooting herself in the head, surviving, but with extensive brain damage. She returned to England but never recovered, ultimately dying from consequences of the wound.