Noor Khan was born on January 1, 1914, in the Russian capital Moscow.
Her father, Inayat Khan, a musician and Sufi preacher, and mother, Amina Begum (aka Ora Ray Baker).
Indian princess Noor Inayat Khan was captured by the Gestapo – the official secret police of Nazi Germany – and executed in the Dachau concentration camp.
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She was aged 29 when captured in 1943.
Her life will be made into a TV drama series where Freida Pinto, star of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, will play Noor, the spy princess.
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The series, Spy Princess, will be directed by Anand Tucker and produced by Andy Paterson. It is based on Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu.
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Her contribution to the war came to light after Basu wrote Noor’s biography.
Noor Khan, codenamed Madeleine, became a significant target for the Nazi because of her work for the British.
Noor’s job was to send vital coded messages to London from Nazi-occupied France.
She was tortured before being shot in the head the following year, having revealed nothing to her captors.
In 2020, a biopic titled A Call To Spy paid tribute to the work of Khan where well-known Indian actress Radhika Apte portrayed khan in the film.
According to Noor Khan’s biography, she was a firm believer in non-violence and the oneness of all religions.
She was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the United Kingdom’s highest civilian award, in 1949, the French Croix de Guerre, a military honour awarded by France in 1946, and in 2014, a stamp was issued in her honour.