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Colonel Archibald Christie CMG DSO (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie; they married in 1914 and divorced in 1928. They separated in 1927 after a major rift due to his infidelity and obtained a divorce the following year.
Following Agatha Christie's death in 1976, Rosalind and Christie's husband inherited most of the £106,683 net (about £773,000 in 2019), which she left behind. [8] Rosalind also received 36% of Agatha Christie Limited and the copyrights to Christie’s play A Daughter’s a Daughter. Believing the main character was based on her, she remained ...
Mallowan gave an account of his work in his book Twenty-five Years Of Mesopotamian Discovery (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in her book Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946). [13] In 1954, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social ...
The Agatha Christie Trust For Children was established in 1969, [80] and shortly after Christie's death a charitable memorial fund was set up to "help two causes that she favoured: old people and young children". [81] Christie's obituary in The Times notes that "she never cared much for the cinema, or for wireless and television." Further,
The house was occupied by Christie and Mallowan until their deaths in 1976 and 1978 respectively, and featured, under various guises, in several of Christie's novels. Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks and her husband Anthony lived in the house from 1968 until Rosalind's death in 2004. The house in July 2008, under restoration
The supermodel first became a mother in 1985, welcoming daughter Alexa with then-husband Billy Joel. Shortly after their divorce, Brinkley gave birth to her second child, son Jack , in 1994 with ...
Christie Brinkley was feeling the music as Billy Joel performed her song!On Friday, Brinkley attended her ex-husband's sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and got a special serenade. In a ...
Ashfield in Torquay, Devon was the childhood home of Agatha Christie. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses. A blue plaque marks the top left corner of the two-acre property which was ...