#97 - 'Christine Granville' - The Fall of a Forgotten Hero (Krystyna Skarbek, Spy)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On the evening of Sunday 15th June 1952, just inside the front-door of the Shelbourne Hotel at 1 Lexham Gardens, a 44-year-old lady known as 'Christine Granville' was murdered. She looked like a nobody, and yet, living under an assumed name, she was actually a hero, a soldier, a secret-agent and one of the most amazing women who has ever lived. Her exploits were the stuff of legend, but being cast aside by a government who no longer needed her skills, her cruel death marked a sad demise for “Churchill’s favourite spy”.
- Date: Sunday 15th June 1952
- Location: 1 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London, W8 (now the Lexham Gardens Hotel)
- Victims: 1 (Krystyna Skarbek, alias 'Christine Granville)
- Culprits: 1 (Dennis George Muldowney)
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| 1:08.7 | Welcome to Murder Mile. A true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk, featuring many of |
| 1:16.5 | London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within and beyond the West End. |
| 1:26.3 | Today's episode is about Christine Granville, a hero, a soldier, a secret agent, and one of the |
| 1:34.6 | most amazing women who has ever lived. |
| 1:38.1 | But being cast aside by a government who no longer needed her skills, her cruel death |
| 1:43.7 | marked a sad demise for Churchill's |
| 1:46.4 | favourite spy. Maudemarle's research used in the original police files, it contains moments |
| 1:53.9 | of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of the real events, it may also |
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