By Jane Warren One December night in 1942 a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, a British bank robber recruited by the Germans, who would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable he was to be Britain's most sensational double agent and a man hailed as a hero by both sides. Chapman has been the subject of films and TV documentaries yet little is known of his extraordinary wife Betty, a woman apparently able to cope with his affairs, criminal activities, separations and personal traumas.
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Betty Farmer was married to double agent Eddie Chapman for 50 years
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He had six mistresses and a daughter out of wedlock
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Memoirs reveal Betty was never a victim and loved 'exciting' life with Eddie
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