Margot Fonteyn

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Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois Frederick Ashton and Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism Margot's sense of duty rather than ambition propelled her forward. Yet her gifts were such that her pre-eminence would come to eclipse the careers of subsequent generations.Ballet is a fairytale world; if Margot like the pure and poetic heroine of Swan Lake was a natural Odette she would also have to contend with virtue's raw shadow-side in the guise of Constant Lambert Roberto Arias and Rudolph Nureyev - the men who like Von Rothbart were to take possession of her heart.