(ANSA) – SIROLO, 08 MAY – A plaque in memory of Hazel Juvenal-Smith (1913-2011), known to all as Jicky, but actually “agent of the Secret Services of His Majesty George VI in Winston Churchill’s war government “, probably the first public initiative in Italy dedicated to a British spy.
Which, moreover, was not operational in our country, but in Paris, in hiding during the Nazi occupation. He remained in France even after the end of the war, marrying a representative of the Hermes family, founder of the homonymous maison, and then moving to the Riviera del Conero, where he lived undisturbed for 50 years, with an antique shop in Numana and a small house in Sirolo, where the plaque was affixed. A diplomat from the British Embassy and Pascale Mussard, descendant of Thierry Hermes, and artistic co-director of the luxury group, who lived with Jicky as a young girl, discovered her. On the basis of diaries and agendas, Hazel-Jicky’s story is told in the book “Churchill’s Angel” by Nicoletta Maggi, to which the woman gave English lessons in Sirolo, telling her, when she was old, the truth about her life, which began as a young aristocrat, then enlisted in the secret services and engaged in a civil section, people chosen for specific skills: in the case of Jicky her experience as a graphologist, “but she was also an expert in carrier pigeons – said Maggi before the ceremony -, a section today presided over by Queen Elizabeth “. To want the plaque the Cultural Circle of Sirolo. “It is right to remember this heroine of the Second World War, she was captured and tortured by the Nazis while she was pregnant – observed Maggi – and with her many women and men who sacrificed themselves for freedom and democracy”. Also at the ceremony Marta Marchetti, director of the Winston Churchill Museum, Colli al Metauro (Pesaro Urbino). (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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