Dame Margot Fonteyn and the Panama sanitary towel coup

[DrLeftover]

Judy Tatham (L) and Dame Margot in London, a week after the failed coup

It was one of the world's stranger coup plots, described by British diplomats as a "slapdash comedy", with the famous prima ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn and her Panamanian husband trying to topple the government of Panama with the help of a flighty British model, Judy Tatham.

"It was all so amateur. She did it for a lark," says Tatham, about the escapade more than 50 years ago.

"Margot thought that [her husband] would end up as head of the country, and that she would be Queen of Panama. Her role was a romantic one. Mine was to help a friend."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22339272

 

[Evil Eye]

Doesn't even sound like that bad a plan.

 

[Jazzy]

The article did read as a "slapdash comedy" to me. Very imaginative on Judy's part to use the sanitary towel box. Was funny that her "sense of good manners" made her not question anything that was asked of her. Good article and I really enjoyed reading it.