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9 de may. de 2024 · Even then, all might have been lost but for the quick-thinking wife of diplomat Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith and MI6 station commander in Moscow at the time. By changing their baby’s dirty nappy on the boot, she successfully threw border officials and sniffer dogs off the scent – by now quite unpleasant after being on the ...
8 de may. de 2024 · Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel. “I wasn’t excited. I was bloody frightened, actually,” he said. Lord Oxford was speaking here on...
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5 de may. de 2024 · It would later transpire that Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent secretly informing the Soviets, had identified Gordievsky as a double agent. In Moscow, Raymond Asquith, now the 3rd Earl of Oxford and...
9 de may. de 2024 · Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel. “I wasn’t excited. I was bloody frightened, actually,” he said. Lord Oxford was speaking here on camera, as were other members of the British intelligence services.
2 de may. de 2024 · Victorian England’s Most Notorious Socialite. Brendan Da Costa. Posted: May 2, 2024 | Last updated: May 2, 2024. 1. She Was Scathing—And Doomed. Margot Asquith was the British socialite whose...
Hace 2 días · Recently I read The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark.It’s a fantastic history of the events leading up to World War I, and I highly recommend it, I think I spent just as much time looking people’s names up in the index and searching Wikipedia for events that aren’t covered in significant background in this book as I did actually reading it.
Hace 6 días · The youngest daughter of Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield and Stanley of Alderley, Venetia was a namesake and collateral descendant of Venetia Stanley (1600–1633), who was renowned for her beauty and her mysterious death. Venetia met Asquith through her close friendship with his daughter, Violet. Asquith, who enjoyed writing letters ...
