When Skarbek's husband, Jerzy Giżycki, was informed that Skarbek and Kowerski's services were being dispensed with, he took umbrage and abruptly bowed out of his own career as a British intelligence agent. Speaking in Polish and revealing her identity, she talked to the 63 Polish soldiers - Volksdeutsche, i. Krystyna was incredibly charming and intelligent, but also fraught with strange insecurities; she had both her noble eccentricities and bouts of snobbish pouting.

Kowerski became "Anthony Kennedy", and Skarbek became "Christine Granville", a name she used for the rest of her life. By that time Skarbek had already been using a fake passport, according to which her name was Christine Granville, and her date of birth was also different, as she claimed to be seven years younger.In May 2017, a bronze bust by Ian Wolter was unveiled at the Polish Hearth Club ( Ognisko Polskie) in Kensington, London. Determined to help defend their country, they immediately left for London, where Krystyna engineered a meeting with George Taylor of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). I, as an author of historical fiction, with my choice between the truth and the real, aimed to portray a rounded picture of the past, one which demonstrates that the history of a private life is just as important as the history of public life. This podcast looks at the results and effectiveness of the Special Operations Executive and the French Resistance in supporting the Second World War D-Day landings.

Her few possessions including her medals (the George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre with bronze star) and her commando knife are now held in the Sikorski Museum in Princes Gate, London.However, due to being suspected of treason, she and Kowerski were not involved in any important espionage operations during that period. They anticipated they were on the way to their execution, but instead Waem led them to an automobile and they were driven to the outskirts of Digne where Skarbek was waiting for them. Jan Larecki, Krystyna Skarbek: agentka o wielu twarzach ( Krystyna Skarbek: Agent with Many Faces), 2008, pp.