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Christine Granville was born May 1st, 1908 as Krystyna Skarbeck. She was born around Warsaw, Poland.

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Christine Granville was born May 1st, 1908 as Krystyna Skarbeck. She was born around Warsaw, Poland.

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She lived a glorious live as a child. Her father was a bank official who had the rank of a count. Skarbeck's first marriage was in 1938.

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In 1939, Skarbeck and her husband moved to London where she offered to be a spy. She already had a plan where she would go to Budapest and print propaganda then ski into Poland through the Tatra mountain range. Luckily for Skarbeck, she had friends her could serve as guides at the ski range.

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The British Special Operations Executive (SOE) approved the plan. She left for Budapest, Hungary on December 21, 1939. As her work for the SOE grew she changed her name to Christine Granville. While she was in Budapest, she got arrested in 1941 by the Gestapo.

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The Gestapo were the secret German police.

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To look as though she had tuberculosis Skarbeck bit her tongue and coughed. The Gestapo let her out temporarily. She was then smuggled out of Hungary and went into Yugoslavia. The SOE considered sending her back to Hungary or Poland, but found it too risky.

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Tuberculosis is a disease that mainly affects the lungs.

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Skarbeck's most celebrated act was the rescue of Resistance leader Francis Cammaerts. He was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Skarbeck went to the prison and starting singing "Frankie and Johnny" an American blues ballad to find where Cammaerts was. When he started singing along she convinced the Gestapo that she was his wife and contacted him in the prison. Then she identified herself as a British agent and demanded that they negotiate the release of Cammaerts. He was for free 2 million Francs which the SOE dropped off by parachute the next day.

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In July 1944, Skarbeck went to Southern France. Her new mission was to French resistance fighters before the American ground invasion of Southern France at the end of the summer.

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Skarbeck was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the British George Medal and she was appointed to the Order of the British Empire. Five months after the war ended her salary from the SOE ran out. She worked as a housekeeper and a switchboard operator. She applied for British citizenship, but the process was slow because of her past.

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In 1951 she got a job as a stewardess on a ship. A bathroom attendant, George Muldowney, became her friend while they were on the ship. Once they got back in London, he became obsessed with her and began to track her communications and movements. On June 15,1952, Skarbeck had a trip with Andrzej Koweski, a man she met in Budapest. This was the first time they contacted each other after many years. As she was loading her trunk, Muldowney confronted her and ask how long she would be. Skarbeck said roughly two years and he stabbed her in the chest and killed her. Maldowney went to prison and Skarbeck was buried at the London's St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery.