The Spy Who Painted the Queen (31 page)

Assistant Commissioner Basil Thomson of Scotland Yard who led the police investigation and carried out De László's interrogations.

Headquarters of MI5 in 1915, Watergate House, York Buildings, Strand, known by the staff as ‘Watertight House'.

Many MI5 officers had been wounded in the trenches but most retained their sense of humour about it!

Portrait of a suspect as a street artist. Gladstone's tongue-in-cheek homage to a fellow artist. ‘Our Mr. N.' refers to Robert Nathan, who was heading the early investigation.

Philip De László.

Philip D
e László.

Malcolm Brodie, Frederick Bosworth Booth and John Barr Fetherston, the three expert Post Office investigators, as portrayed by Gladstone when they formally joined MI5 in 1915.

‘A Billet from Basil.' MI5 tended to think that Thomson was a bit too big for his boots and mocked his tendency to be unnecessarily mysterious.

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