Daphne Park

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[laughs] She's, um, she's very loosely based on this woman called Daphne Park, who was, who, uh, was a, an M- MI6 handler and who was very much involved in the Lumumba assassination.

Um, and that's why I came ac- And I actually met Daphne Park because a- after she retired from MI6 and the Foreign Office, she became principal of Somerville College, Oxford.

And I was teaching at Somerville College, Oxford, when she became principal.

[laughs] Little did I know, uh, at the time, just this is, you know, nice elderly lady who, uh, w- whose hand I shook and said hello.

But when I started researching the Lumumba assassination, there she was, Daphne Park.

And, uh, she wasn't as alluring as Faith Green, but she did, she never married and she did have quite an interesting, uh, romantic and emotional life.

But she was a very significant, um, opera- operative in, within M- MI6 hierarchy.

Phaethra.

She's very loosely based on this woman called Daphne Park, who was an MI6 handler and who was very much involved in the Lumumba movement.

And that's why I came.

And I actually met Daphne Park because after she retired from MI6 and the Foreign Office, she became principal of Somerville College, Oxford.

And I was teaching at Somerville College, Oxford when she became principal.

Little did I know at the time, just this nice elderly lady whose hand I shook and said hello.

But when I started researching the Lumumba assassination, there she was Daphne Park and she wasn't as alluring as Faith Green but she did she never married and she did have quite an interesting romantic emotional life but she was a very significant operative in within MI6 hierarchy and she was in Moscow she was in Congo here there and everywhere so she had quite a career and rose up through the ranks.

And I think more and more people are becoming aware of the women who worked in MI6 and MI5.