Facebook post #025 (Jul 2020)
This is Phyllis (and one of the pianos her family made). You should feel sorry for Phyllis because she had her 21st birthday present stolen while she was dining. The family lost £1.2m (in today’s money) in the 1927 robbery in Sunningdale. Then she married my cousin.
She had already stunned the world by wearing socks on a golf course (as one of the famous golfing sisters). According to a website I’ve just found, she went on to be renowned for skating, skiing and toboganning. And bred champion Irish Wolfhounds. And raced a Bentley in the Monte Carlo rally. And lived to 92 (still driving), surrounded by haute couture, fine art and pictures of horses.
Phyllis Strohmenger and a Strohmenger piano