exchange for hosting the book fairs for several days.) Much of this time was spent in Spain, where Brian demonstrated his guile during a customs warehouse strike in Madrid that was holding up the release of a shipment of books, endangering a number of scheduled book fairs. Brian, along with Tony Saez, who ran the book fairs in Madrid, and under the glare of the burly warehouse workers, simply drove into the warehouse, loaded a van full of boxes, and drove away. During this time, Brian also got to know the Prince of Spain's English tutor, and convinced her to bring Prince Felipe (subsequently crowned King Felipe VI) and his two sisters, then in their early teenage years, to a book fair being held at King's College, an international English school in Madrid. During their extended stays in Madrid, Brian and Sian stayed in the penthouse of the Hotel Aristos (now known as 'La Posada de El Chaflánon') on Avenida Pio XII in Chamartín. Death Field, aged 44 years, and his wife Sian Louise Carlton, aged 26 years (née Hope; born 20 October 1952, Cardiff), died in a car crash on the M4 motorway on 27 April 1979, a year after the last of the Train robbers had completed his sentence. The accident occurred as they returned from a visit with Sian's parents in Wales. A Mercedes driven by the pregnant 28-year-old daughter of well-known hairdresser Raymond Bessone (better known as "Mr. Teasy Weasy") crossed a damaged section of the dividing crash barrier and hit Field's oncoming Porsche. He, along with Amber Bessone, her husband and two children, were killed instantly; Sian was not declared dead until the following day, at West Middlesex Hospital. References 1934 births Military personnel from Berkshire 1979 deaths Royal Army Service Corps soldiers British Army personnel of the Korean War Great Train Robbery (1963) English legal professionals Road incident deaths in England English criminals