A new portrait of Noor Inayat Khan was unveiled recently at the RAF Club by Queen Camilla. Noor, a radio operator and fluent French speaker, was dropped into enemy occupied France in 1943 to aid the French resistance, sending messages back to England.

Noor Inayat Khan was born in Moscow and lived as a child in London and France. She trained as a Special Operations Executive secret agent, known as Nora Baker. In France she was betrayed and finally was shot in September 1944 with three other female agents at Dachau. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross.

The bust of  Noor Inayat Khan by Karen Newman, in Gordon Square, is near where, in 1942, she was living with her family in Taviton Street, just off the square. It is believed to be the first of an Asian woman in Britain. Princess Anne unveiled the bust on 8 November 2012.