Adolf Hitler’s “English girlfriend” was bullied by Joseph Goebbels because she said she did not like Benito Mussolini, her secret diaries have revealed.

Unity Mitford, a young upper-class beauty, had “scandalised British society by fawning over Hitler and becoming closer to him than any other Briton”.

The long-lost secret diaries of Unity Mitford, which offer unprecedented insights into her extraordinary relationship with Adolf Hitler in the years leading up to World War Two, have been revealed. The leather-bound journal,

The diaries, which were lost for 80 years, reportedly chronicle 139 meetings between Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford from 1935 to 1939.