Virginia Cowles

Harriet Virginia Spencer Cowles OBE (1910–1983) was an American journalist, biographer, and travel writer who covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II as a correspondent for major publications and broadcasters. She received an OBE from the British government in 1947 for her wartime reporting and later published critically acclaimed biographies of historical figures including Winston Churchill and the Romanov, Rothschild, and Astor families. Cowles died in an automobile accident near Bordeaux, France, in 1983 while traveling with her husband, British politician Aidan Crawley.