Enid Mary Riddell was a British socialite and racing driver during the 1930s and 1940s.
18 Facts About Enid Riddell
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Enid Riddell was a member of some far-right political groups in the United Kingdom and was imprisoned for violating the Official Secrets Act 1911 during the Second World War.
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Enid Riddell was a member of the Nordic League, a far-right, pro-Nazi organisation that worked to co-ordinate similarly-minded groups in Britain.
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Enid Riddell was a member of the Right Club, a British fascist and antisemitic group established by the Scottish Unionist member of parliament Archibald Maule Ramsay, who was often referred to as "Captain Ramsay".
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Enid Riddell had been recruited to the RC by Anna Wolkoff, daughter of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff, the last Imperial Russian naval attache posted to London before the revolution.
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Enid Riddell's family was naturalised and ran the Russian Tea Rooms in London.
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Enid Riddell trained as Wolkoff's understudy and as an aide-de-camp for Ramsay.
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Immediately after the arrest of Kent and Wolkoff, Enid Riddell moved the meetings of the RC to the Wolkoffs' Russian Tea Rooms.
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Enid Riddell stole copies of correspondence between the American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill wherein Roosevelt, while publicly avowing America's neutrality, was making commitments that would draw the US into the war.
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Enid Riddell was called to testify as a witness for the defence for Kent and Wolkoff.
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Enid Riddell was interviewed at Scotland Yard, and her unco-operative responses convinced the officer questioning her that she knew more than she was saying, and that immediate detention was warranted.
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In 1940, Enid Riddell was convicted of offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911, then detained under the expanded Defence Regulation 18B and interned in Holloway prison.
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Enid Riddell later moved to Malaga, Spain, where she ran a club called La Rascasse, a reference to the tight final corner of the Grand Prix course at Monaco, and the bar located inside its radius.
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Enid Riddell died in London in March 1980 at the age of 76.
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In 1933, Enid Riddell appeared in the Monte Carlo Rally driving an Alvis Speed 20, retiring due to fuel problems.
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Enid Riddell drove K3008 in the 1934 Rallye Paris - Saint-Raphael Feminin, where she finished first in class and second overall, and posted the fastest time of the day on the Pougues Les Eaux hill climb stage.
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Enid Riddell appeared in the race again in 1939 in a Frazer Nash BMW.
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Enid Riddell drove an Austin-Healey 100 registered NUE 854 with co-driver Betty Haig in the 1954 Paris St Raphael.