Tania Szabo at Home After Receiving Heroic Mogther's George Cross From The King At Buckingham Palace -- Tania Szabo - wearing the George Cross awarded her mother, and which she received from the King - looking at the picture at her mother on her return to her home in Brixton, London.Four-years-old Tania Szabo went to Buckingham Palace, London, to receive the George Cross from the hands of the King, which was awarded to her heroic mother Madame Violette Szabo "for a magnificent example of courage and steadfastness" as a British agent in France. She was shot in 1944 by the Germans after torture had failed to make her talk. She was then 24. She has been parachuted into France during the war to do espionage work. January 28, 1947.