Queen of the Desert

One woman can change the course of history

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Nicole Kidman

Gertrude Bell

James Franco

Henry Cadogan

Damian Lewis

Richard Wylie

Jay Abdo

Fattuh

Robert Pattinson

T.E. Lawrence

Jenny Agutter

Florance Bell

David Calder

Hugh Bell

Christopher Fulford

Winston Churchill

Nick Waring

Sir Mark Sykes

Holly Earl

Florence Lascelles

Sophie Linfield

Judith

Mark Lewis Jones

Lascelles

Beth Goddard

Aunt Lascelles

Michael Jenn

Thompson

William Ellis

Earl of Chester

John Wark

Arnold Runcie

Richard Goulding

Havenhurst

Charlie Hollway

Hairdresser