Sophie Moss

They had three children, Christine Isabelle Mercedes, named after their mutual friend and former SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek (Christine Granville), Sebastian (who died in infancy), and Gabriella Zofia. Initially living in London, they moved to Riverstown House, County Cork in Ireland. They later returned to London, Putney, but separated in 1957. Moss died in 1965 in Kingston, Jamaica.

In 1945, she married W. Stanley Moss. He had fought with the 8th Army in the North African Campaign before joining the Special Operations Executive based in Cairo. He is best remembered for the capture and Abduction to Egypt, in April and May 1944, of General Heinrich Kreipe. He became a best-selling author in the 1950s.

Tarnowska drew on memories of liqueur-making on her father's estates to produce the party drinks. By the winter of 1944 the owner of the damaged property secured the eviction of the occupants who moved into a flat.

Tarnowska's journeys in North Africa feature prominently in a book on the history of the period. In 1943 Tarnowska moved into a squatted villa on Gezira Island found by Capt Bill Stanley Moss, with a group of British SOE officers who included:

Tarnowska was living at the National Hotel as Rommel advanced into Egypt in June 1942 after the fall to Tobruk.Cairo was evacuated, and many of her contemporaries left for Palestine, but she refused to leave and carried on working for the Polish Red Cross until she was ordered to leave for Palestine by the Polish Legation. She refused and instead set off defiantly for the front, to Alexandria, to be near the troops close to the site of the First Battle of El Alamein. There she stayed in a hotel as the only guest, all others having fled. As Rommel's advance was halted, Tarnowska returned to Cairo in July 1942 to welcome the returning evacuees.

Separated from her husband, Tarnowska left Palestine and traveled to Cairo where she and her sister-in-law were looked after by Prince Youssef Kamal ed-Dine (a visitor to Poland before the War). She began working for the International Red Cross tracing missing Allied soldiers. General Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister-in-Exile and Commander-in-Chief, visited Cairo in November 1941. At his request, Tarnowska set up the Cairo branch of the Polish Red Cross with the help of Lady Lampson, wife of Sir Miles Lampson, the British Ambassador, and Sir Duncan Mackenzie of the British Red Cross. She became friends with King Farouk and Queen Farida.

When Tarnowska left her father's home at Rudnik at the outbreak of war in 1939, he gave her for safe-keeping the personal seventeenth-century jack, the "proporzec", of King Karl Gustav of Sweden, a trophy won at his army's famous defeat on the Tarnowski estate during the Deluge. In 1957 she and her brother, Stanislaw also living in London, decided to donate the historic flag to the Wawel Art Collection in Krakow, where it remains. The Communist government highlighted the cultural event, and granted the visiting party visas, but Tarnowska declined all offers of expenses-paid travel and hospitality. Sister and brother paid their own expenses and were allowed to revisit Rudnik.

In 1937, she married Andrew Tarnowski, a member of the senior branch of the family. Her first son was under two when he died in July 1939.

Sophie Moss (Zofia Roza Maria Jadwiga Elzbieta Katarzyna Aniela Tarnowska, 16 March 1917 - 22 November 2009) was a Polish noblewoman and World War II organiser. At the request of General Władysław Sikorski, Poland's wartime leader, she ended up at the Cairo branch of the Polish Red Cross.

She was the daughter of Hieronim, a politician and a writer. Her grandfather was Count Stanislaw Tarnowski (1837–1917), who was a professor and rector at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His home, also known as the Szlak, had been the resting place of deceased Polish kings on the night before the kings' burial at Wawel. Moss was also a possible direct descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia and her family had held some of the highest offices in Poland.

Moss was born during the First World War, near Tarnobrzeg, a town in South-eastern Poland which her Tarnowski family founded in 1593.