Mosley was saved in the assassination attempt, Tommy came up with a new plan. Episode 2 saw Tommy attend a fascist rally which Mosley was speaking at, to the anger of his fellow socialists who label him a traitor as he walks into the building obnoxiously adorned with swastikas. Little known is Tommy's plan is to actually undermine and crush the fascists by playing along with them.
As Tommy and Lizzie enter the rally, he tells her that she should offer condolences to Mosley as his wife has recently ed away, and that his mistress will be attending. Tommy says that Diana has been a ''great comfort'' to Mosley, which is hard to imagine once she's introduced. Chilling, arrogant and cruel, Diana has truly cemented herself as one of the season's most antagonistic characters.
Was Diana A Real Person? Who She's Based On
Despite Peaky Blinders does another time jump) Diana's sister (Unity) introduced her to Adolf Hitler in 1935. In 1936, Diana and Mosley were married in the drawing-room of Joseph Goebbels' (Nazi propaganda chief,) with Hitler in attendance. The two were arrested in 1940 under no charge, but the advice of MI5, who wrote of Diana that she is ''far more dangerous than her husband.'' Initially kept in separate prisons, they were allowed to be together under the personal intervention of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister at the time. They were kept there for 3 years and then let out due to Mosley's ill health. Post-war, she was a lifelong er of the British Union of Fascists until her death in Paris in 2003, due to a stroke.
With one fixes a villain problem, but showcases the co-conspirator nature of her relationship with Mosley, and even puts herself at his level, dismissing Tommy's suggestion that the men talk business in private. She is charming and insulting all in one, a feminine obstacle that Tommy can't flirt his way out of, which will surely make for an interesting conflict between the two.
Her introduction in Peaky Blinders perfectly captures the danger of the real Diana Mitford, basking in how ''terrifying'' her husband looks as he speaks and reveling in every moment of the fascist rally. She seeks to undermine Tommy and Lizzie (patronizingly telling her she prefers ''Elizabeth'',) and clearly puts herself on a higher pedestal than them. As in real life, she undoubtedly makes for a sinister villain, one who could even match Inspector Campbell.