Remembering Charlotte Bingham: The blue blood author whose spymaster father recruited her to work for MI5

At MI5 she took dictation and shorthand, guarded the codes of secret safes, and reluctantly went on ‘active service’, spying on a double agent and infiltrating the set of a potentially Communist film as an extra. ‘It was a walk in the park, compared to the work they do now, I believe.’ Her father chose her, presumably because he knew she could be trusted? ‘No, I think he didn’t know what else to do with me, hanging…