From Sex Worker To Princess To Murderer - The Remarkable Rise & Fall of Marguerite Alibert

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from sex worker to princess to murderer the remarkable rise and amp fall of margarita liberty maggie was born into a poor French family and her childhood took a tragic turn margarita Liberty was born in 1890 into a poor French family her father worked as a cab driver and her mother was a maid when her younger brother was four years old he was hit by a lorry in the street and killed sadly Maggie's parents blamed her for his death since she was supposed to be minding him they shipped her off to the sisters of Mary boarding school at age 16 she was thrown out for getting pregnant by an unknown man she is pictured above with her daughter Raymond who was sent away to be raised on a farm in rural France she was taken in by a prominent brothel owner and taught to be a high-class lady of the night it was after being turned out onto the street and sending her daughter away that Marguerite turned to prostitution to make a living she had seen that in those days there was good money to be made by the upper-class sex workers known as courtesans a brothel owner Madame de NART discovered Marguerite and took her under her wing she described young Maggie as the mistress of nearly all my best clients gentlemen of wealth and position in France England America and other countries it was me that made a sort of lady of her she met her first husband at 17 she took his last name but he was already married in 1907 Marguerite met a man named Andre Miller she was 17 he was 40 he was wealthy and owned a stable full of horses since Marguerite loved horses that may very well have played a part in their romance he bought her an apartment so they could conduct their relationship in private and she took his last name she claimed that they were married but in reality Andre was still technically married to his first wife her lack of faithfulness ended the relationship in 1913 the Prince of Wales was referred to her for a sexual education in 1917 Marguerite was introduced to her next grand love err Prince Edward eight he was serving with British troops in France during WWI and had lost his virginity to a courtesan borrowed from a friend his friends decided that 23 year old Edward needed to have a more thorough sexual experience a full education from an experienced woman since a friend already knew of Marguerite it was arranged that they would meet her years of training in the bedroom certainly provided Edward with the first-rate education they had a passionate affair for about a year before Edward lost interest Marguerite had a steady supply of wealthy gentlemen who funded her extravagant lifestyle Margaery began to make a living by seducing and courting wealthy men and it was paying off well she was receiving many valuable trinkets and gifts along with a settlement from Andre Miller but wanted more she found her first real husband Charles Laurent in 1919 the marriage was not what either of them wanted and was dissolved after only six months but Marguerite got what she had wanted a large divorce settlement that money paid for her apartment as well as a stable of horses cars and servants looking for a more stable life Marguerite married an Egyptian Prince Ali Kemal Fahmy bay first met Marguerite Laurent in 1921 and was immediately taken by her even though she was escorting a wealthy businessman at the time Ali was not technically a prince he was however ridiculously wealthy and had been given the title of Bey an equivalent of Lord he managed to arrange a meeting for the two of them in 1922 and soon proposed to her and invited her to come live with him in Cairo she hesitated but eventually agreed she had to convert to Islam for their formal wedding when she married Prince Fahmy Marguerite had two clauses drawn up stating that she would be allowed to wear western clothing and that she would be allowed to divorce him in exchange she would convert to Islam and thus receive his inheritance just before the wedding the divorce Clause was thrown out and he added a clause that would allow him to take extra wha prince ali famiiy expected her to be an obedient and submissive wife that didn't go over too well the marriage of Marguerite and her prince was not surprisingly and unhappy one a woman as shrewd independent and openly sexual as Margaret was never going to be the submissive obedient and proper Islamic wife that Prince Ali desired the couple fought like cats and dogs occasionally in public it was said that she humiliated the prince with her behavior tension built over time as Marguerite claimed that Prince Fahmy was abusive to her the princess was not happy with the way Prince fami treated her especially sexually there were rumours in Egypt regarding the princes homosexuality and Marguerite claimed at one point to have been torn by unnatural intercourse it was thought by those who knew her that she might be ramping up to another big divorce payout as she was making a list of all the abuses that Fahmy had committed against her Marguerite shot the Prince three times outside of their hotel room on July 9th 1923 the couple attended a showing of The Merry Widow in London after they returned to their hotel they had a violent fight and the Prince left the room for a few hours around 2:00 a.m. there were three shots fired Marguerite headshot Fahmy execution style with the browning point 3 - pistol that she had been keeping under her pillow she was arrested and Fahmy died of his injuries an hour later with witnesses moments after the shots were fired it seemed like an open-and-shut case the letters that Prince Edward had written to Marguerite came back to haunt him years before she killed her husband Marguerite had tried to blackmail Prince Edward by claiming that she had kept all of the scandalous letters he had sent her before the murder trial she brought the blackmail tactic back into play according to author Andrew Rose who wrote a book on the whole affair we think there are about 20 letters which are wildly indiscreet he said things about the conduct of the war that might have been misinterpreted he's made rude remarks about his father and there's commonly a sexual content in them as they are not the kind of letters that he would have wanted the world to know about a jury in England found her to be a victim of abuse by her beast of a husband not a cold-blooded murderer when Marguerite was tried for the murder of husband nobody realized what was going on behind the scenes of her trial the letters she had been holding on to from Prince Edward not to mention her own past would have been incredibly damaging for the English royal family and they were ready to do anything to keep the story away from the public there was a deal made with officials in the court and her past was not allowed to be brought up during her trial this ensured that Prince Edward was not mentioned instead they painted a picture of her dead husband that was so vile and racist that the jury let her go with no convictions princess Maggie spent the rest of her life living comfortably in Paris after the death of her husband Marguerite returned to Paris to live out the rest of her life she played small parts in movies and continued to charm wealthy men until she eventually backed away from the public spotlight she died at the age of 80 still carrying the title of princess she had succeeded in making Affairs into a business after she died her grandson found that her lavish life had been funded by settlements from five different men you

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Published: Mon May 07 2018

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