A former “Q,” she will be the first woman to lead Britain’s foreign intelligence service in the agency’s 116-year history.

A spook for over a quarter of a century, Metreweli was ‘Q’ at the spy agency. Now she’ll be known as ‘C’. Here’s why.

While actress Judi Dench has played the head of the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the James Bond film franchise for years, in reality, the 17 chiefs so far have all been men