Ever wonder which of the characters in Palace of Spies was a real person? Quite a lot of them were. Starting with Peggy’s BFF at court: Molly Lepell.

WARNING! There’s actually a spoiler in this…

Molly was Maid of Honour to Caroline. She was nicknamed ‘the Schatz’, German for ‘treasure’.

She was renowned for her beauty, her elegant figure, her big grey ‘soft and sprightly’ eyes and her lustrous skin. Sprightly and fun-loving as well as being well educated and intelligent, Molly learnedto carefull...