The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (66 page)

Deschamps, Auguste (‘Albert’)

Deschamps, Paulette

Die, France

Digne, France

Dodds-Parker, Douglas

‘Donkeyman’ resistance/intelligence circuit

Dragoon, Operation 1944

Dunford, Michael

Durrell, Lawrence

Economist

Eden, Anthony

Egypt
see also
Cairo

Eisenhower, General Dwight

El Alamein, Battle of 1942

Electra House, London

Evening Standard

Express Poranny
(
Morning Express
)

Fairburn, Major Bill

FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry)

Farouk of Egypt, King

Fermor, Paddy Leigh

Fernham mission

Fielding, Xan (‘Cathédral’)

Filipkiewicz, Antoni

First World War

Flamstead mission

Fleming, Ian

Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI)

Foreign Office, British

Foskett, Laura

France

Allied invasion of 1944 (‘Overlord’)

Allied invasion of Southern 1944 (‘Dragoon’)

Cammaerts in
see
Cammaerts, Francis

CG in
see
Granville, Christine

declares war with Germany

‘Donkeyman’ resistance circuit

fall of

female agents in

FFI in

gendarmerie

German invasion of 1940

Jedburgh teams in

Jerzy Gizycki in

‘Jockey’ resistance circuit

liberation of 1944

Mandate

Maquis in

Milice

Operation Toplink

Polish army in Polish government-in-exile in

resistance circuits in

‘Spindle’ resistance circuit

Vercors, Battle of 1944

Vichy

see also under individual area or town name

Frank, Hans

Freston mission

Galletti, Gilbert

Gap, France

Gazeta Polska

General Headquarters Multilateral Force: Movement Section

Geneva Convention

George Cross

Germany

CG visits post-war

First World War

foreign troops fighting for, WWII

France, occupation of, WWII

Jews, treatment of, WWII

Poland, invasion of

Poland, occupation of, WWII

post-war

Russia, invasion of 1941

surrenders 1945

non-aggression pact with Russia

Warsaw Rising 1944 and

Gestapo

Gettlich, Gustav (first husband)

Gi
ż
ycki, Jerzy Mikolaj Ordon (second husband)

Africa, life in

background

Budapest, wartime

Cairo, wartime

Canada, post-war life in

CG divorce from

CG informs she no longer loves him

CG leave for Budapest, watches

CG suggests as replacement agent in Budapest

CG will and

CG, first meets

France, wartime

funeral, missing from CG’s

Istanbul

London

marries CG

Mexico, post-war life in

SIS and

SOE and

Voigt and

Yugoslavia

Goldefeder, Józef (uncle)

Goldfeder family

Goldfeder, Roza (grandmother)

Gombrowicz, Witold

Gordimer, Nadine

Gormal, Sergeant Len

Gradowski, Michal (‘Lis’, the ‘fox’)

GRANVILLE, CHRISTINE

AFTERLIFE OF

attempts to protect reputation of

Bond girls, as inspiration for

biographies

biopic, rumoured

conspiracy theories concerning death

daughters named after

novels and verse inspired by

legacy

Picture Post
serialisation of life

secret lovers rumoured

A
LGIERS
:

social life in

SOE training in

AWARDS/MEDALS

Croix de Guerre/Order of Vercors

George Cross

OBE

War Medal 1939–1945

B
RITAIN
:

arrives in 1939

awaits mission to Poland in 1944

citizenship/passport

first visits 1938

post-war life in

returns to from France 1944

see also
POST-WAR LIFE
; British Secret

Intelligence Service (SIS)
and

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

B
ULGARIA
:

travels through on way to Cairo 1941

C
AIRO
:

arrival in

FANYs, joins

idleness/search for work in

journey to

language classes in

leaves

Operation Kris and

provides British with intelligence on Polish within

parachute course, Ramat David, leaves for

Polish intelligence attitude towards CG in

post-war life in

sex life in

Sikorski and

SIS training course in

social life in

SOE dispense with CG’s services in

wireless operator, trains as in

CHARACTER

ability to blend into a room

ability to talk to anyone, from any walk of life

appeal/attractiveness

Catholic

chameleon quality

childlessness

competition, love of

criticism, aversion to

cycling, dislike of

depression

dogs, love of

fitness

flamboyance

freedom, desire for

grace/movement

grenades, preference for

guns, dislike of

inferiority complex/thin-skinned

Jewishness

land, respect for

loner/independence

office work, aversion to

Polishness, passionate

skiing, love of

stories, invention/embellishment of

suicide, thoughts of

sunbathing, love of

switching on personality

tone-deaf

vitality

war liberates

CHILDHOOD

baptized

birth

Catholic religion and

childhood homes

family
see also under individual family member name

first meets Andrzej Kowerski

horse riding

school

FINANCES

F
RANCE

Allied invasion of (‘Overlord’) and

Allied invasion of Southern (‘Dragoon’) and

Allies liberation of and

Cammaerts and
see
Cammaerts, Francis courier in

enters

first considers mission in

honoured in leaves Algiers for

‘mosquito bite’ operations in France secures release of Cammaerts, Fielding and Sorensen

supports drop of arms in

trains for mission in

objectives in

subversion of foreign units fighting for Germans

Vercors, Battle of

see also
France
and under individual area or town name

H
UNGARY

Andrzej Kowerski, meets in
see also
Kowerski, Andrzej

arrested in

arrival in

British failure to act on intelligence gathered within

courier networks, work with within

escape to Yugoslavia from

intelligence work within

Poland, abortive attempt to enter from

Poland, missions to based in

INDENTITIES
/
NAMES

birth name

Christine Granville

‘Folkestone’ codename

Gettlich from first marriage

Gizycka from second marriage

‘Jacqueline Armand’ codename

‘Marja Kaminski’ codename

‘Mucha’ or ‘Fly’ codename

‘Pauline’ codename

protection of aristocratic

Venal Vera … from Gezira

‘Vesperale’ nickname

‘Willing’ codename

‘Zofia Andrzejewska’ codename

LOVE LIFE

abortions/miscarriages, rumoured

divorce, first

divorce, second

first husband

lovers
see under individual lover name

marries for the first time

marries for the second time

murdered by lover

second husband (Jerzy Gizycki)

secret lovers rumoured after death

sex life and

OUTBREAK OF WAR AND

forms plan to volunteer for British intelligence

hears of

leaves for Hungary

London, arrival in

reaction to German invasion of Poland

SOE, joins

P
OLAND

abortive attempts to enter

abortive attempts to enter

attempts to protect family in 1940

authorities’ attitude towards CG within

childhood in

entry into/journeys into wartime

family in
see under individual family member name

intelligence work in wartime

pre-war life in

provides British with intelligence on Polish intrigues

see also
Poland
and
polish intelligence/ resistance/underground

POST-WAR LIFE

abortions/miscarriages, rumoured

awards/medals

British citizenship

burial

car dealership venture

childlessness death drinking

dropped by SOE

French honour

Germany, visits Andrzej Kowerski in

girls named after

job search

left a London house in will of a colonel

legal independence from second husband, gains

lists birth place as London

London medication, rumours of

Nairobi

Poland, awaits mission to 1944

portrait

runs linen room of a Paddington Hotel

sells frocks at Harrods

stewardess on shipping lines

switchboard operator, India House, London

Switzerland, holiday in

WAAF commission

waitress at Marynka, Brompton Road, London

PRE-WAR LIFE

divorce

Fiat office job, Warsaw

husband, meets first

husband, meets second

Jewishness

London, arrival in

marries, first time, Warsaw

marries, second time, Warsaw

‘Miss Polonia’ contest

shadow on lungs

skiing

South Africa

Warsaw society

Zakopane, Poland

S
YRIA

intelligence work in 1941

travels through pro-Vichy 1941

T
URKEY

stays in on way to Cairo 1941

Y
UGOSLAVIA

escapes from Budapest into 1941

Greece

‘green frontier’

Grenoble, France

Grotte de la Luire (‘Gleaming Cave’), Vercors, France

Gubbins, Lieutenant Colonel Colin (later Major-General)

Gubbins, Michael

Gunn, Harvard

Hadik prison, Budapest

Haifa, Palestine

Halsey, John

Hamilton, Leonard

Hamilton, Norman

Harrison, Hubert

Harrods, London

Hay, Captain

Hérault, Paul

Himmler, Heinrich

Hitler, Adolf

Hollingworth, Clare

Home Army, Polish

Horthy, Admiral Miklos

Howarth, Captain Patrick

Howe, Ted

Hudson, Colonel D. T.

Huet, Major François

Huillier, Daniel

Hungarian police

Hungarian Secret Police

Hungary

Ill Met By Moonlight
(Moss)

India House, London

International Refugee Organization, UN

Iran

Iraq

Ironside, General

Istanbul, Turkey

Italy

Japan

Jebb, Gladwyn

Jedburgh teams

Jennings, Chief Superintendant George

Jepson, Selwyn

Jerusalem, Palestine

Jewish people:

CG family/CG and

WWII and

‘Jockey’ resistance/intelligence circuit

‘Judex’ mission, SOE

Kasparek, Józef

Katyn massacre 1940

Kenya

Kenyan Civil Aviation

Khan, Prince Ali

Klimkowski, Captain

Koelichen, Angela von

Koenig, General Pierre

Kopanski, General Stanisław

Kowerska, Barbara

Kowerska, Maria

Kowerski, Andrzej (Andrew Stanisław Kowerski-Kennedy)

afterlife/legacy of CG and

Algiers, visits CG in

appearance

Balkans, wartime resistance work in

begins affair with CG

Black Brigade

break with CG

British citizenship

Bulgaria, with CG in

Cairo, life with CG in

car crash in Germany, post-war

car dealership venture with CG, post-war

death of CG and

family massacred in war

first meets CG

‘Forcible’ codename

Germany, CG visits in

Germany, post-war life in

Italy, wartime life in

Kate O’Malley and

Kenya, CG asks to join in

meets CG in Budapest

Muldowney and

Opel car

NKVD passed information on

Palestine

parachute training

post-war visits to CG

prosthetic leg

recruited to SOE

Syria with CG

Turkey with CG

Kris, Operation 1944

Laski, Father

Lebanon

Ledóchowski, Count Wladimir (Jan Grodzicki)

Ledóchowski, Jan

Lee, Peter

Lees, Gwendolin

Lefort, Cecily

Leski, Kazimierz

Lezzard, Julian (‘Église’)

Lobkowitz, Prince Eddie

Long, Vera

Łubienska, Teresa

Lublin Polish Committee of National Liberation

Lubomirski, Prince Kazimierz

Lubomirski, Prince Marcin

Luftwaffe

Lycett, Andrew

Madonna of Cz
ę
stochowa

Mackiewicz, Stanisław ‘Cat’