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> Phil Innes ('Chess One') wrote (to 'Barbara Villiers'):
>
> According to published sources, Vera Menchik Stevenson and
> her mother and her sister were killed when a German V-1
> hit *their house in Kent*, which is *not* 'just a few miles
> away' (as Phil Innes claims) from anywhere in North London.
>
> Here's a ChessBase article about Vera Menchik:
> http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=104
>
> "...her untimely death in 1944 when a German V-1 rocket
> hit her Kent house..."
> --ChessBase column
>
> Might Phil Innes's mother have met Virginia Woolf's
> supposed grand-child too? :-)
>
> --Nick