Paternal Family Tree: Mitford
In February 1904 [her father] David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale 1878-1958 [aged 25] and [her mother] Sydney Bowles Baroness Redesdale [aged 24] were married.
On 8th August 1914 Unity Valkyrie Mitford was born to David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale 1878-1958 [aged 36] and Sydney Bowles Baroness Redesdale [aged 34].
On 17th August 1916 [her grandfather] Algernon Freeman-Mitford 1st Baron Redesdale [aged 79] died. His succeeded son [her father] David [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Baron Redesdale of Redesdale in Northumberland. [her mother] Sydney Bowles Baroness Redesdale [aged 36] by marriage Baroness Redesdale of Redesdale in Northumberland.
6th February 1929. The Sketch. The marriage of Mr. Bryan Guinness [aged 23], son of the Hon. Walter Guinness, to the Hon. Diana Mitford [aged 18], third daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, was solemnised at St. Margaret's, Westminster [Map]. The lovely nineteen-year-old bride was attended by eleven bridesmaids.
Note. Her sisters Nancy [aged 24] and Unity [aged 14] were two of the eleven bridesmaid. Her younger sisters Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford [aged 11] and Deborah Vivien Mitford Duchess Devonshire [aged 8] were unwell but threw rice as her car passed.
6th January 1932. The Sketch. Photograph of sisters Nancy Mitford [aged 27], Unity Valkyrie Mitford [aged 17], Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford [aged 14] and Diana Mitford [aged 21].
11th September 1935. Daily Mirror. 'Daughter [Unity Valkyrie Mitford [aged 21]] of Peer Nazi Guest of Honour.'
On 18th May 1937 Esmond Romilly [aged 18] and [her sister] Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford [aged 19] were married in a civil ceremony in Bayonne. Both mothers, Sydney Bowles Baroness Redesdale [aged 57] and Nellie Hozier 1888-1955 [aged 49] attended the ceremony. They were second cousins.
5th April 1939. Tatler. Unity Mitford [aged 24] (centre), pictured 15 months after returning to England.
1st December 1939. Daily Mirror. Miss Unity Mitford [aged 25], pro-Hitler daughter of Lord Redesdale, has been shot by the Gestapo, according to reports from Paris. It is stated that she demanded to return to England after stormy scenes with Hitler, and that the German secret police feared she might 'talk.' Hitler, says the reports, had told her many secrets, but after war began she began to lose her admiration for him. Himmler and his Gestapo hated her. They envied her influence with the Fuehrer. Whether Hitler knew of her execution, or even gave the order for it, may be a secret forever, the reports declare.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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2nd January 1940. Daily Mirror. the 'Hitler-admiring daughter [aged 25] of Lord Redesdale, is expected back in England today.'
On 19th April 1941 [her brother-in-law] Andrew Cavendish 11th Duke Devonshire [aged 21] and [her sister] Deborah Mitford [aged 21] were married. He the son of Edward William Spencer Cavendish 10th Duke Devonshire [aged 45] and Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil Duchess Devonshire [aged 45].
At the commencement of their honeymoon Deborah 'stopped the car ... and registered at a small Labour Exchange for National Service,' as per The Sketch.
Before 31st August 1945. William Acton [aged 39]. Portrait of Unity Valkyrie Mitford [aged 31].
On 28th May 1948 Unity Valkyrie Mitford [aged 33] died of meningitis caused by the cerebral swelling around the bullet that had lodged in her brain after she had shot herself in December 1939.
Kings Wessex: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 23 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 25 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings Scotland: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Kings France: Great x 10 Grand Daughter of Henry IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 29 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine 820-866
Kings Spain: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of John II King Aragon
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Mitford 1688-1761
Great x 3 Grandfather: Colonel William Mitford 1744-1827
Great x 2 Grandfather: Captain Henry Reveley Mitford 1769-1804
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Molloy of Dublin
Great x 3 Grandmother: Fanny Molloy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Pye 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Reveley Mitford 1804-1883
GrandFather: Algernon Freeman-Mitford 1st Baron Redesdale 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ashburnham 1st Earl Ashburnham 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Ashburnham 2nd Earl Ashburnham 1724-1812 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jemima Grey Countess Ashburham 1699-1731 
10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Ashburnham 3rd Earl Ashburnham 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Crowley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Crowley Countess Ashburham
Great x 1 Grandmother: Georgiana Jemima Ashburnham 1805-1882 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Algernon Percy 1st Earl Beverley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Seymour Duchess Northumberland 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Percy Countess Ashburham 1776-1862 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Burrell 1724-1775
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabella Susan Burrell Countess Beverley 1750-1812
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Lewis 
Father: David Freeman-Mitford 2nd Baron Redesdale 1878-1958 7 x Great Grand Son of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: David Ogilvy 10th Earl of Airlie
GrandMother: Clementina Gertrude Helen Ogilvy 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Thomas Stanley 6th Baronet 1735-1827 
14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Stanley 1st Baron Stanley Alderley 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley and 1st Baron Eddisbury 16 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Baker Holroyd 1st Earl Sheffield
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maria Josepha Holroyd Baroness Stanley Alderley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Abigail Way Countess Sheffield
Great x 1 Grandmother: Henrietta Blanche Stanley 1830-1920 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Dillon Lee 12th Viscount Dillon 1745-1813 
2 x Great Grand Son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Augustus Dillon Lee 13th Viscount Dillon 1777-1832 3 x Great Grand Son of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Phipps 1757-1782 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Henrietta Maria Dillon Baroness Stanley Alderley and Eddisbury 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Unity Valkyrie Mitford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Milner Gibson
GrandFather: Thomas Bowles
Great x 1 Grandmother: Susannah Bowles
Mother: Sydney Bowles Baroness Redesdale
GrandMother: Jessica Gordon