Julie Wheelwright

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526 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: First World War Spy Mata Hari · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

So she kind of is prepared to jump off the cliff and she refuses a blindfold at the execution.

She blows kisses to the soldiers.

I think so.

I mean...

With this story, one of the things that's always really difficult to get at is what actually happened because we have to rely on the report of sometimes unreliable witnesses.

So the press were not allowed to attend the execution.

And so you can imagine some of the people who – the military officers who were allowed –

to attend had, you know, they're the ones that got their story out.

And that's one of the stories that came out.

And the officer who'd written this, he describes her falling into nothing more harmful than a heap of petticoats, which I think was just kind of an astonishing image.

But then what happens is

And nobody comes forward to claim the body because it's just too dangerous.

They don't want to be associated with this enemy of the state.

So it's donated to a medical school.

But then there are all these rumors flying around Paris that she was actually rescued by a man on a white charger.

I mean, literally a man on a white charger coming through the woods.

Or that, you know, I kept finding stories from newspapers in the 1930s, a bit like Elvis, you know, she didn't die and she's living on an island in the South Seas.

And there's something really tragic.

Well, we've talked about the tragedy of her early life, but I just feel she's such a tragic figure because she could have been... She really was an extraordinary... She had something.

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