Margot Fonteyn


Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE , was an English ballerina. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She spent her entire career as a dancer with The Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II.

Fonteyn was born Margaret Evelyn Hookham onMay 1919 in Reigate, Surrey to a British father and a halfIrish halfBrazilian mother. Her mothers father was a Brazilian industrialist Antonio Fontes. Very early in her career Margaret transformed Fontes into Fonteyn and Margaret into Margot. Among her fathers family were people in literature and music, but he was an engineer.

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