The White Mouse
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Despite her future successes, Nancy Wake had humble beginnings. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1912, but her family moved to Sydney, Australia when she was almost two and she grew up there. A Maori midwife delivered her and, at the time of her birth, allegedly pointed at a fold of skin on her head and said, “’This is what we call a kahu, and it means your baby will always be lucky. Wherever she goes, whatever she does, the gods will look after her.”
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I had never heard of her until I stayed at the Stafford Hotel in London. In the bar was a comfy-looking chair with a ribbon stretched from arm to arm. A small sign said “In honor of the White Mouse.” She had lived there for years with all bills paid by Prince Charles. RIP Nancy. ❤️
What an incredible woman. In a time when women were looked on like children if they were considered at all. Remarkable story.
Not given a medal by Australia directly after the war because she did not serve with Australian forces.... No other democratic country in the world has authorities that are as much in love with bureaucratic technicalities as Australia's authorities are!
To be fair, the guy said that she would be lucky, he never said the people around her would be lucky.
It is good to see one of these videos about a person I have been lucky enough to have actually met. Nancy retired with her husband to Port Macquarie, 400km north of Sydney. After I took part in a military parade with the army in that town, Nancy joined all the soldiers and shared a drink (or two) with us. She was a forceful and interesting person to chat with. People should try to see the Australian TV mini series about her life, not the Charlotte Gray movie.
Now I want a documentary on women spies done by the same voice actress of Mallory Archer from the tv show Archer.
I worked in the care home where she spent her last remaining years such an amazing woman rip
another Real life Peggy Carter?!
Her story also sounds similar to Andrée De Jongh, a 19-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route over the Pyrenees Mountains out of Nazi-occupied France. It's so awe inspiring to learn about these women.
Thanks for this.
Great Video!
Nancy Wake is a true unsung hero. It was only in the last 15 or so years that I remember her story becoming public, and I am in awe of what she did at great peril to her own life. I remember seeing an interview with her some years ago, and she still came across as a real feisty woman.
What a badass broad.
One person standing up for what's right. never accept evil, you can make a difference!! Such a great example of humanity xxx
Great vid. True hero who couldn’t sit back and do nothing when there was something to be done
I personally knew Nancy for more than forty years (in Australia) and told me that she despised being referred as a "SPY", my own father was also an agent in Special Operations Executive,French section ; unfortunately he was betrayed in Paris and executed on 29th March,1945 in Flossenburg Concentration Camp in S/E Bavaria only several weeks prior to liberation by the US Army !
Bravery incarnated. Now THAT is a full blown superheroine.
Born in Wellington, New Zealand? Me too!! Wellington represent!!