The Nazi-Fighting Princess Part 1: Catch Me If You Khan | 88
Even The Royals
Wondery
4.4 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Noor Inayat Khan was a pacifist princess raised in a peaceful bubble with her Sufi family. But when the Nazis invade Paris during World War II, she faces an impossible choice: stay true to her beliefs or fight the fascists. Despite her lack of experience, Noor decides to join the resistance. But to help save humanity from Hitler's reign of terror, she'll have to betray the peaceful faith that shaped her. And as the Nazis close in on Paris, Noor discovers that fighting for what's right might cost her more than just her principles – it could also cost her her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:04.1 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.6 | A quick note about our show. |
| 0:09.4 | We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class. |
| 0:14.0 | So some details and scenes are dramatized. |
| 0:38.2 | Brooke, on a scale of one to me, how good of a liar are you? Okay, here's the thing. I don't lie. I don't like to lie. But if I have, like, let's say you and I got that reality show that we auditioned for that no one called us about. But if we, like, if we were in a scenario like that or I were on |
| 0:44.8 | Big Brother or something like that, I think I would be a really good liar if I had to. |
| 0:50.6 | Well, it's crazy that you're like, I don't lie when, if I remember correctly, we were at a |
| 0:55.0 | buffet at a Mexico resort and my phone was missing and I said, give it back. You're like, I don't know |
| 1:01.1 | what you're talking about. That's called a prank. Look it up. Oh, okay. So we're just using different |
| 1:06.0 | words. Got it. Oh my God. Well, our royal today, just like us, lied for a living. |
| 1:12.5 | Okay. |
| 1:13.3 | Nora Ayat Khan was the descendant of an Indian sultan, and she grew up in Paris as the daughter of a popular beloved Sufi preacher. |
| 1:21.5 | Sufism is a mystical form of Islam, where its followers try to develop as pure of a relationship as possible with God. |
| 1:28.7 | So they believe that their devotion is best expressed through music, art, and poetry. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh. |
| 1:34.3 | And they also believe in nonviolence and acceptance for all people and religions. |
| 1:39.0 | I can get behind that. |
| 1:40.3 | I know. |
| 1:40.8 | I was like a religion I actually am on board with. |
| 1:43.6 | Love it. Yeah. And I mean, it's wonderful, unless you live in Europe during Nazi occupation. |
| 1:49.6 | You never know what inner grit you have until push comes to shove. And there's no push quite like World War II. That's when Nora discovers her true purpose and goes against her pacifist principles to become a spy. |
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