St George's, Hanover Square, with just a few close friends present at the ceremony. Nancy Neele Nancy Neele was ten years younger than Christie. She was born in 1899 to middle-class parents in Stockport, Cheshire. Her father, Charles Woodward Neele, was the Chief Electrical Engineer to the Great Central Railway. Her mother, Mabel Lily Fraser, came from a cultured family where music dominated. She was one of five sisters who played orchestral music, and they were described by one newspaper as showing "a proficiency in handling their instruments that enables them to perform with grace and ease the most exacting and high class music". During Nancy's childhood, her family moved to a house called Rheola in Croxley Green. After she left school, Nancy completed a course at the Triangle Secretarial College in London and obtained a position as a clerk in the Imperial Continental Gas Association. Soon after she started there, her friend from the College, Madge Fox, joined her. In 1925, Madge married Frank Henry James, and the couple lived in Hurtmore Cottage near Godalming. It was here that Christie saw Nancy at house parties on weekends before his divorce from Agatha. After their marriage, in 1928, Archie and Nancy Christie lived in a London flat at 84 Avenue Road (NW8). They had one son, Archibald (born 1930). Christie stayed in contact with Rosalind, his daughter from his first marriage. In an interview that was published in The Times, Rosalind Hicks made the following comments about her father's second marriage: "Eventually my father married Nancy Neele and they lived happily together until she died. I saw him quite often and we always liked and understood one another." Christie became a successful business man and was a director on the boards of several financial and investment companies. In 1949, he was appointed to the board of the Rank Organisation. The couple lived in their London flat until about 1939 when they moved to a large country house near Godalming called Juniper Hill on Hydon Heath. Christie continued to play golf at Sunningdale Golf Club. Nancy died in 1958 at the age of 58, and Christie died four years later. References 1889 births 1962 deaths Agatha Christie Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich People educated at Clifton College People from Godalming Royal Flying Corps