With their cachet and cosmopolitan backgrounds, royals have long dabbled in spycraft, giving 'palace intrigue” a whole new meaning.
in 1940, Noor and her family escaped to England as the Nazis invaded France. Once there, she threw herself into the war effort, training as a radio operator. The hardworking, multilingual Noor was recruited by the Special Operations Executive to be an undercover wireless operator in occupied France.because of her “small, still features, the dark quiet eyes, the soft voice, and the fine spirit glowing in her.
Constantly moving from safe house to safe house, Noor was captured by the Gestapo in October 1943. Far from cowering, she clawed at her captors and “Noor was transferred to Dachau, where she was executed on September 13, 1944. “Liberté!” was reportedly her final word.Charles Edward was born in 1884 at his family seat of Claremont House in Surrey, England.
But this does not seem to be the end of the duke’s familial betrayal. According to Cadbury, in 1938, in the midst of rising tensions, he met with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace, visiting the German Embassy both the day before and after the meeting. According to Schad, the divorcée became close to Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the powerfulShe was soon working for the publisher as his personal spy. “Rothermere was mad keen to find out Hitler’s real political intentions,”. “He chose me as his ‘adviser’, and for a time, from 1934 to 1938, I was an important witness to world events.”
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