Skarbek is often characterised in terms such as Britain's "most glamorous spy" [11] or "Churchill's favourite spy". Count Skarbek’s first child was a son, Andrzej, and then the future secret agent was born eight years later.

From this point on her usual address was the Shellbourne Hotel, 1/3 Lexham Gardens, in Kensington, where she had a regular room on the first floor. She was the first female agent of the British to serve in the field and the longest-serving of all Britain's wartime women agents. Skarbek managed to meet with Captain Albert Schenck, an Alsatian who acted as liaison officer between the local French prefecture and the Gestapo.

On the morning of 14 July came a daylight drop of light arms and supplies from 72 American B-17s, the largest single-day airdrop to the maquis during World War II. Kowerski, who was under less suspicion than Skarbek, eventually cleared up any misunderstandings with General Kopański and was able to resume intelligence work. Marrying Stefania in late December 1899, Jerzy Skarbek used his wife's dowry (her father was a banker) to pay his debts and continue his lavish lifestyle. and dashing men", The Spy Who Loved, by Clare Mulley: review by Nigel Jones, The Telegraph, Saturday, 14 July 2012.

She was out every moonlit night organising a reception committee to collect the canisters dropped by Allied aeroplanes on the plateau.It was, among others, thanks to her that Polish detainees from Hungarian camps were able to escape to serve in Polish armed forces in the West.