Juliet Campbell CMG has lived one of the most remarkable diplomatic lives of her generation. She joined the Diplomatic Service in 1957, among the very first women to do so, and from that pioneering start went on to a career that traced the great arcs of post-war history. By 1967 she was in the Foreign Office News Department, and she later returned to King Charles Street to serve in the European Integration Department just as Harold Wilson embarked on his "fundamental renegotiation of the terms of entry" to the European Communities—a defining moment in Britain's long and complicated romance with Europe. From there her postings read like a roll-call of the century's most consequential capitals: Paris, Beijing, and Jakarta. She crowned her diplomatic career as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Luxembourg, where she hosted Margaret Thatcher and a stream of other VIPs, before turning her formidable energies to academia as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge.