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London, Apr 16(ANI): Anna Chapman has broken her silence over life as a sexy Russian spy and claimed that she was proud to be British.

Chapman became a United Kingdom citizen when she married Brit Alex Chapman in 2001, but her dual-nationality passport was revoked after she was unmasked as a spy last year.

“Everything beautiful comes to an end at some point and there is always a new stage and better road to start walking on. My time in Britain has made me better in so many ways that it’s hard to tell what I would be if it wasn’t for London,” the Sun quoted Chapman, as saying.

“It was certainly my honour to be part of this nation, even for a short while,” she added.

The 29-year-old further denied that she married Alex to cover her undercover missions.

“My marriage to Alex was based purely on mutual love. I still remember the days we spent together with real tenderness and nostalgia,” Anna said.

“I ask you not to look for ’secret motives’ where there aren’t any. It was love at first sight, which only grew stronger every day,” she added.

Anna was arrested in the United States along with nine others in June 2010 on suspicion of working for the Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation’s external intelligence agency, the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki).

She pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US Attorney General, and was deported back to Russia in July 2010, as part of a prisoner swap. (ANI)