Katharine Woolley Mesopotamia" by Agatha Christie; Christie's second marriage in 1930 was to Max Mallowan, Sir Leonard Woolley's assistant at Ur. During World War II, her husband was involved with monitoring Nazi looting of museums, galleries and archives; she assisted with this work. She died of multiple sclerosis on 8 November 1945 in The Dorchester, where she and her husband had been living for several years. Katharine Woolley Katharine Woolley, née Menke (June 1888 – 8 November 1945) was a British archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley. She was
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