The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life.
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Bell\'s colleagues included Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the only woman whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to determine the future of Mesopotamia.
Called the most powerful woman in the British empire, she counselled kings and prime ministers.
Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem.
The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life