British Embassy in Lisbon, Rua São Francisco de Borja, 63 , phone number 4 4151, very near the German Legation. It has been the Residence of the Ambassador and Chancery since 1833, when Charles Ellis,…
Geometric, benevolent and cooperative, Portuguese neutrality during WW2 remains the subject of controversy to this day. Although faithful to England in the strategic and military domains, Portugal continued to trade with both sides of the…
German Legation in Lisbon, Rua do Pau de Bandeira, 9 currently the Embassy of the People's Republic of China. Telephone numbers were: 63170 / 63925 / 63179 /61545.
In his book of memoirs, first published in 1972 and now translated from German to English by his daughter Katharine Wallace, Nikolaus Ritter , Abwehr officer for Luft Intelligence, reports on his travels to Lisbon…
On 28 August 1940, the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson embarked from Lisbon to New York and from there to their destination: Bermuda. Following instructions received from the British Government through a letter…
King Carol II and M. Lupescu’s stay in Portugal, where they arrived in March 1941, caused some distress to Oliveira Salazar because he was the heir of the legitimate branch of the monarchy, dethroned in…
Michael Stewart, Press Attaché at the British Embassy in Lisbon, photographed at the party given when he left Portugal According to an Australian newspaper , he was involved in a frontier incident with Portuguese authorities…
It all started 30 years ago. A trip from Macau to Hong Kong allowed me to find the memoirs of Peter Wright, a book which at the time was banned in the United Kingdom but…
I met him some years ago in his house in the South of England. He was a kind man. He gave me all the instructions I needed to arrive there from Victoria Station, London. After…
Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of 007, worked as a Naval Intelligence Officer at the NID, the Naval Department directed by Admiral John Henry Godfrey. In 1941, both were in Lisbon, travelling to America. Ian Fleming was…
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