Anna Wolkoff

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Anna Nikolayevna Wolkova (Russian: Анна Николаевна Волкова; 17 April 1902 – 2 August 1973), sometimes known as Anna de Wolkoff, was a White Russian émigrée and convicted spy. She was secretary of The Right Club, which was opposed to Britain's involvement in World War II. Her arrest for spying for Germany interrupted plans for a fascist coup by the Right Club. She was the eldest child of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff (1870–1954) who was the last Imperial Russian naval attaché in London. Her family had decided to stay in Britain in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, and they became naturalised British subjects on 10 September 1935. In 1923 the Wolkoffs opened the Russian Tea Rooms, at 50 Harrington Road, South Kensington, near the Natural History Museum, a rendezvous point for other White Russians. Anna and her father held right-wing, antisemitic views and were considered sympathizers of Nazi Germany, which she visited several times in the 1930s. She later claimed to have met Hans Frank and Rudolf Hess. Her visits caused MI5 to take an interest in her activities and from 1935, she was placed under surveillance as a possible German spy. Wallis Simpson was a client of her couture business and also was under surveillance by British counterintelligence.