On 21st December 1897 Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire was born to [her father] Alfred George Forde-Pigott [age 37].
In 1909 Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire [age 11] made her stage debut as a child in Pinkie and the Fairies.
On 21st April 1917 Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire [age 39] was killed in action when a piece of shrapnel entered his heart. His son [her future husband] Charles [age 11] succeeded 20th Earl Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire.
Around 1925. Rita Martin. Photograph of Mimi Crawford [age 27].
Around 1925. Lenare. Photograph of Mimi Crawford [age 27].
1927. Sasha aka Alexander Stewart. Photograph of Mimi Crawford [age 29].
24th June 1927. Sasha aka Alexander Stewart. Photograph of Mimi Crawford [age 29].
On 27th February 1929 [her father] Alfred George Forde-Pigott [age 68] died.
In March 1934 Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire [age 27] and Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire [age 36] were married. She by marriage Countess Suffolk, Countess Berkshire. He the son of Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire and Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter [age 55].
On 27th March 1935 [her son] Michael Howard 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire was born to [her husband] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire [age 29] and Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire [age 37].
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 12th May 1941 [her husband] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire [age 35] was killed. He had successfully defused thirty-four bombs. The thirty-fifth exploded at Erith Marshes, Kent bomb cemetery. The 250kg bomb, dropped six months earlier, contained a Zus 40 booby trap that detonated when the Type 17 fuse was withdrawn. The explosion killed fourteen people: the Earl, his chauffeur Fred Hards, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden (who died in the ambulance), and eleven other people who were nearby.
[her son] Michael Howard 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire [age 6] succeeded 21st Earl Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire, 13th Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 13th Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.
On 22nd February 1966 Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire [age 68] died. She was buried at Charlton, Wiltshire.
GrandFather: John George Forde-Piggott
Father: Alfred George Forde-Pigott
Minnie "Mimi" Forde-Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire