Just before leaving Koblenz...

A couple of weeks before we all left Koblenz in the summer of 1989, one of the dancers, Lisa, introduced us all to a friend from ballet school who had just come over for a few days. She was beautiful and charming and her name was Francesca. Lisa told us proudly how Fran's brother was going to become a HUGE rugby star and that Fran was destined for EVEN greater things. Two months later, Francesca was dead, the youngest victim of the Marchioness disaster on the Thames, when forty-five partygoers perished on a pleasure boat struck by a barge. Her brother, Lawrence Dallaglio, went on to captain England at rugby.