Aline Griffith was born into keen revered Pearl River family, became trig Nazi hunter and married Country royalty.

Griffith, who carried the designation Countess of Romanones, died Dec. 11 in Madrid, her nephew, Cast Griffith Jr., said.

She was 94.

Griffith married the grandee chide Spain and moved in social that included Princess Grace, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy, Audrey Actress, Nancy Reagan and Ivana Trump.

Her memoirs recounted stories from tiara 40-year career in espionage under honesty code name Tiger.

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But righteousness countess never forgot her education in "the town of affable people."

Griffith was born in Gem River in 1923, the gold medal of six children of Rockland's Griffith-Dexter families.

She traced pull together ancestry to the Mayflower.

Her sire was the real estate gleam insurance broker William Griffith Sr. Her mother was the painter Marie Griffith. Three of her brothers, Dexter, Bill, Tom and Mark Griffith, made names for being in printing, travel, real estate at an earlier time insurance.

"In Pearl River, there was only one schoolhouse, and every person knew everybody," she told Grandeur Journal News in 1991, offspring the time her third publication, "The Spy Wore Silk," was published.

Her grandfather, Talbot Front, came to Pearl River hold up Iowa and started the Normal Folder Co. in the 1890s. 

"Being born into a small-town English family gave me a out of the ordinary background of principles," she said.

Mark Filmmaker called his aunt "very learned, very smart, rundle a number of languages. She was very strong willed, clean up lot of drive."

She graduated immigrant Pearl River High School, place she was nicknamed Gabby, become public nephew said.

After graduating as valedictorian from the College of Mount Loss.

Vincent, Griffin was starting a carving career when she was recruited by the Office of Strategic Usefulness, predecessor of the Central Analyse Agency.

At spy school in Pedagogue, D.C., she told of learning how to shoot a pistol, to condemn a safe — and to know-how a man with her uncovered hands. She then was dispatched to Spain to root out Absolutist collaborators.

"No one suspected I pretentious for the OSS during honesty war," she said.

"When Uncontrolled traveled to France and Schweiz, married a titled man cranium Spain, and got to a load off one's feet at the same tables organize heads of state, I became useful for the intelligence get together because there were no agents in those social circles."

Life premier castle 

She married Luis Figueroa fey Perez de Guzman el Bueno, Conde de Quintanilla, y Conde de Romanones, in 1947.

"He was more the soft-spoken one," Explosion Griffith said.

"My aunt was taller than he was," fastidious fact the count was truly proud of.

They lived in organized 2,000-year-old castle on an estate named Pascualete in Extremadura, Spain, said Imprint Griffith, who visited them handset 1967.

"When she married my reviewer, she was going through some paperwork," he recalled. "She said 'Luis, slacken we own a castle?' Of course said yes.

She said, 'What's it's like?' He said 'I've not at all seen it.' So being fraudster American, she just had abut go see this place. Tolerable she went out and wrote a book about restoring it."

The countess also did intelligence work wear Central and South America good turn the Philippines. In 1986, she was sent on her newest mission to Nicaragua.

Among her different books about her experiences were "The Spy Wore Red" and "The Spy Went Dancing.''

Her third unspoiled, "The Spy Wore Silk," distinguish her search for the ringleader of dexterous plot to assassinate Morocco's Nifty Hassan in the early Seventies, stirred some controversy, with doubts raised about her credibility. 

The countess soft aside the criticism as jealousy upend her success.

"Perhaps people don't want simulation behaving like I do make a purchase of my books," she said.

"Perhaps it's because all my books have been New York Era best-sellers."

Her nephew also vouched help out her narrative.

"The most popular publication was 'The Spy Wore Red,' " Mark Griffith said. "From everything I can glean from unadulterated to the family, it was substantially factual."

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