![]() ![]() She knew he must be rich because he was “in the film business” and drove a Bentley. He was “bubbly,” full of laughter and mischief. His voice was strong but high-pitched with a hint of a Northern accent. ![]() ![]() She knew that he was twenty-four years old, tall and handsome, with a thin mustache-just like Errol Flynn in The Charge of the Light Brigade-and deep hazel eyes. READ MOREīeyond that, her knowledge of Eddie Chapman was somewhat limited. The sun that poured through the dining-room window of the Hotel de la Plage formed a dazzling halo around the man sitting opposite Betty Farmer with his back to the sea, laughing as he tucked into the six-shilling Sunday Roast Special “with all the trimmings.” Betty, eighteen, a farm girl newly escaped from the Shropshire countryside, knew this man was quite unlike any she had met before. The Hotel de la Plage Spring came early to the island of Jersey in 1939. ![]()
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