The Nazi-Fighting Princess Part 2: Pretty Little Spyer | 89

Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In Part One, Noor broke from her peaceful Sufi upbringing to become an Allied spy, fighting the Nazis from inside occupied Paris. But when her identity is compromised and the Gestapo closes in on her, Noor faces a terrible choice: flee to safety or stay and risk everything for what she believes in. In her final battle, Noor shows that true resistance isn't about escaping - it's about never surrendering, no matter the cost.

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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.
0:07.9	A quick note about our show.
0:09.5	We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class.
0:14.2	So some details and scenes are dramatized. It's late September
0:28.6	just after sundown.
0:31.6	26-year-old Nora Nyett-Kahn is walking through a neighborhood just outside of London,
0:36.4	on her way home from a nursing shift.
0:38.9	She hears a low rumble. It's the sound of German warplanes dropping bombs over London.
0:44.6	The last time we saw Nora, she was locked up in a jail cell in Nazi-occupied France.
0:49.2	She and her sister Claire had left their family to hunt down their Red Cross nursing certificates,
0:54.0	which were on a boat that was about to leave the country.
0:57.2	Well, Noor and Claire spent a whole night in that cell.
1:00.5	It wasn't until the next morning that Nora was able to prove her innocence, aka that she was not a Russian spy.
1:07.3	By then, though, the ship carrying her certificate had already left France.
1:12.2	Wow.
1:12.8	Yeah.
1:13.5	Which means this whole agonizing trip was for nothing.
1:16.8	Mm-hmm.
1:17.8	Now, to be fair, this fruitless mission could have ended way worse.
1:21.4	Nor and Claire fortunately managed to race back the 200 miles to her family and make their boat to England at the literal last second.
1:29.5	Now, if the girls had missed their ship, they would have been stuck in Nazi-occupied France,
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