Margaret Biddle Robbins Ambassadress in Spain, WWII Supreme Allied Headquarters veteran , head of women's affairs for the U.S Armed Forces, humanitarian, and a matriarchal figure in Biddle, Drexel, and Duke families, died at age 97, peacefully at her home in Waverly Heights, on Philadelphia's Main Line on June 17, 2013. Born Margaret Atkinson in 1915, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, Margaret Robbins was the eldest daughter of parents who had both served in WWI. At 18, she left for Chicago to pursue higher education and an early business career, returning in the beginning of WWII to be commissioned as an officer in the Canadian Army, and ultimately assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) under General Eisenhower, in France and Germany. On remote assignment during hostilities, she was exposed to combat, and immediately after cessation, was engaged in spiriting high-value individuals and numerous refugees out of the newly established Soviet zone of Germany In 1946, she met and married Soldier/Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr, of Philadelphia (formerly U.S. Ambassador to all the European Governments-in-Exile, and at that time Chief of the Allied Contact Section of SHAEF). In Germany she played a leadership role in the fledgling U.N. Relief & Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), which followed the troops into the concentration camps, and founded the Conference of Women's Activities in Europe, to spread the work throughout the war-torn continent. Meanwhile, cousin-by-marriage Francis Biddle, U.S. Judge at the Nuremburg Trials, regularly engaged her as hostess for all of his official social functions. Through her work and her husband she was acquainted with Edward VII, Winston Churchill, and struck lifelong close friendships with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Eisenhowers, and the Kennedys. In 1949 she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. During the 1950's Margaret moved to Pennsylvania where her husband, Gen. Biddle, had been appointed Adjutant General of that which was his home state. In addition to attending now to her two young children, including providing them home-schooling, she held a range of civic responsibilities. She served on the Boards of the Army Distaff Foundation, the Crown Princess Martha Foundation, the Pulaski Foundation (Chairman), and Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (now Drexel University School of Medicine). In 1958, President Eisenhower appointed her to Chair the Defense Adv