Max Mallowan Discovery" (1956) and his wife Agatha Christie described his work in Syria in "Come, Tell Me How You Live" (1946). Max's first wife, Lady Mallowan, known to millions as Dame Agatha Christie, died in 1976; the following year, Mallowan married Barbara Hastings Parker, an archaeologist, who had been his epigraphist at Nimrud and Secretary of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. Mallowan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, and knighted in 1968. He and Dame Agatha Christie were among a number of married couples each of whom held knightly
Valerie Grove David Byrnmor Jenkins in 1968, but the couple later divorced. (Her first book "Where I Was Young - Memories of London Childhoods" was published in 1976, under her former name.) She married Trevor Grove in 1975. Her second husband is a former editor of "The Sunday Telegraph". Valerie Grove Valerie Grove (née Smith, born 11 May 1946 in South Shields) is a British journalist and author, who for many years worked as a feature writer, interviewer and columnist for "The Times" newspaper. Her father, William Douglas "Doug" Smith (1916–73), was a cartoonist for the "Shields Gazette" and other newspapers. After