Julie Wheelwright
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526 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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But it's not good.
Her choices are very limited.
What is she going to do?
One of the things that happens is that she's approached by the man who was one of the German consuls.
He meets her and says, well, we know that you're planning on going to Paris again.
She'd done a trip in 1915.
She's going back in 1916.
And I have to sort of caveat all of this by saying there's different versions of this story.
But she was approached by the Germans, probably through this consul in The Hague, which is where she's living at the time.
And it was suggested to her and she agreed to provide information to the Germans.
about the French.
Why did she do this, do you think?
Money, money, money.
That was the reason why she did it.
I don't think she had strong patriotic feelings.
I think that she was a woman who lived in the moment.
She didn't sort of see beyond how she was going to pay the bills for the next month, let alone the next year.
She is a hot mess, yeah.
And one of the most revealing pieces of evidence I found about her life at that time was an MI5.
There's an MI5 file on Mata Hari that opens after the war.
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