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TALES FROM THE QUEEN OF THE DESERT - GERTRUDE B...

Gertrude Bell is known as The Queen of the Desert and a film based on her life is due for
release in 2015. A woman far ahead of her time  Gertrude gained a first from Oxford. She took
an interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She
chronicled her journeys through Iraq  Persia  Syria and her important diplomatic work  with
characteristic wit and incisiveness. Sadly her personal life was marred by losing the love of
her life from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an overdose of sleeping pills.

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