What British government official was known as the “Uncrowned Queen of Iraq”?

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The Answer is Gertrude Bell
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DUSTY FOR DAYS: GERTRUDE BELL
(1868-1926 )
British government official known as the “Uncrowned Queen of Iraq”

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Gertrude Bell

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Gertrude Bell was a British writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator and an archaeologist. In the latter role she was well known for finding the Mesopotamian ruins. She worked close with Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence, and they were instrumental in the creation of Jordan and Mesopotamia, as independent countries after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Mesopotamia is now known as Iraq.
Her uncle was a British diplomat in Persia (now Iran). After university, she went to visit him, writing her experiences in a well received travelogue. She spent much of the next decade travelling around the world, learning mountaineering archaeology, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Persian and Turkish. Between 1899 and 1909, Bell visited the middle-east frequently and worked closely with an archaeologist called T. E. Lawrence who became known as Lawrence of Arabia.

At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteered with the Red Cross but in November 1915, she was called to Egypt where she again met Lawrence. In 1916 she was dispatched to Basra, to advise on an area she knew from her travels. She drew maps to help the British army reach Baghdad.

When British troops took Baghdad, she was summoned to Baghdad and presented and made "Oriental Secretary." She was among a select group of "Orientalists" convened by Winston Churchill to attend a Conference in Cairo to find a way to reduce the expense of stationing British troops the area. Throughout the conference, the two worked tirelessly to promote the establishment of the countries of Transjordan (now Jordan) and Iraq to be presided over by the brothers, Abdullah and Faisal, the sons of the Emir of Mecca.

She was a confidant of King Faisal of Iraq and helped him nip several problems in the bud, especially at the start of his reign. He helped her to found Baghdad's great Iraqi Archaeological Museum from her own modest artefact collection. She died in

Bell briefly returned to Britain in 1925, and found herself facing family problems and ill health, possibly a lung cancer. On July 12, 1926, Bell was discovered to have committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. A year after her death, in 1927, her stepmother edited and published two volumes of Bell's collected correspondence written during the 20 years preceding World War I. See "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gertrude_be...

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Margaret Thatcher