Margot Fonteyn born plain Peggy Hookham was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois Frederick Ashton & Constant Lambert. Carried to fame on a wave of wartime patriotism Margots 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 & poetic heroine of Swan Lake was a natural Odette she would also have to contend with virtues raw shadow-side in the guise of Constant Lambert Roberto Arias & Rudolph Nureyev the men who like Von Rothbart were to take possession of her heart.