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Simon Warrender Simon Warrender, who has died aged 88, was a reluctant British aristocrat and involved in an undercover wartime mission to arrest a Portuguese princess. His obit is here: [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8702850/Simon-Warrender.html[/url] and here's a taste: His assignment to arrest Princess Philippa of Braganza, who was known to be smuggling industrial diamonds from Uruguay for use in German munitions factories, came when Warrender was attached to the staff of Admiral Sir Frederick Edward-Collins in Gibraltar. Edward-Collins explained the mission: Warrender was to go to neutral Portugal and pose as a civilian at a hotel in Estoril, where the diamond handovers were believed to be taking place. After the briefing, however, Warrender still had some questions. How exactly, he wanted to know, were the diamonds coming in? “In the royal fanny, Warrender”, the Admiral replied. “Don’t worry, you won’t be obliged to conduct a search. Just apprehend the lady.” Warrender boarded the ship in which she was travelling from Montevideo and duly arrested the princess . Nobby_N

You beat me to it, Nobby! This was my favourite bit: In 1939 he cycled to Portsmouth, where he joined the RNVR as an ordinary seaman. “Simon,” said his horrified mother, “you obviously don’t know what you’ve done. You haven’t even learnt to drink gin yet!”

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