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Doña María Aline Griffith Dexter, Countess of Romanones, spouse of a deceased Grandee of Spain (born 1923) is a Spanish-American aristocrat, socialite, and writer who worked in the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) as a cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962. ==Biography== Born in Pearl River, New York,〔("LIFE" )〕 Miss Griffith (as she then was) was working as a model when she was recruited by the OSS and sent to Spain, where she later met and married her husband. According to Elizabeth McIntosh's book "she started out in Madrid in the X-2 code room in 1943, on call night and day to encipher messages. She also handled a small agent net that spied on the private secretary of a minister in the Spanish government. Most of her exciting work was done after hours when she developed an extensive social life, reporting on the gossip she had overheard after a night of partying, often with Spanish aristocracy."〔"McIntosh, Elizabeth. Sisterhood of Spies. Navel Institute Press. 1998. P. 169〕 She married Luis Figueroa y Perez de Guzmán el Bueno, Count of Quintanilla, in 1947; they had three children:〔(www.geneall.net Entry in genealogy website GeneAll )〕 * Álvaro de Figueroa y Griffith, 10. count of Quintanilla, 3. count of Romanones, (born 21.02.1949), married Lucila Domecq Williams. * Luis de Figueroa y Griffith, 11. count of Quintanilla, (born 1950), married HSH princess Theresia zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, and later with María Inés Bárbara Márquez y Osorio * Miguel de Figueroa y Griffith The couple later became the Count and Countess of Romanones upon the death of her husband's grandfather, Alvaro Figueroa.〔(Collection of articles (in Spanish) about and photographs of the Countess )〕 She currently lives at her homes in Madrid and Pascualete, the latter of which is a country estate of her husband's family, which she has painstakingly restored. In 2009, she was interviewed for the documentary film ''Garbo: The Spy''〔(IMDB entry on documentary "Garbo: The Spy" )〕 about Juan Pujol, a Catalan double agent who supported Britain during World War II. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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