Hardy Amies: The Queen’s Dressmaker Who Ran a Spy Network
Hardy Amies spent the Second World War running covert sabotage operations behind enemy lines in occupied Belgium for Britain’s Special Operations Executive, rising to lieutenant colonel, all while still designing rationed civilian clothing back home. A decade later, he became one of Queen Elizabeth II’s official dressmakers, held the Royal Warrant for over three decades, and later staged fashion history’s first men’s ready-to-wear catwalk show.
This episode covers his wartime double life, a widely-repeated online claim linking him to something called "Operation Ratweek" that turns out, on…
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