The story of Marguerite Alibert, a sex worker that being princess after killed her husband

News24xx.com -  Marguerite Alibert's story is one of gritty survival followed by a lucrative life of sex work. 

Marguerite Alibert 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 15, the nuns placed her in a home where she most likely worked as a domestic servant. At age sixteen, she was thrown out for getting pregnant by an unknown man. Then after childbirth her daughter named Raymonde, she sent away her baby to be raised on a farm in rural France.

It was after being turned out onto the street and sending her daughter away that Marguerite turned to prostitution to make a living. 

A brothel owner, Madame Denart, discovered Marguerite and took her to brothel.

In 1907, Marguerite met a man named Andre Meller. She was 17, he was 40. He was wealthy. 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 married to his first wife. But they divorce in 1913.

Marguerite began to make a living by seducing and courting wealthy men.

In 1917, Marguerite meet with Prince Edward VIII. At that time, his friends decided that 23-year-old Edward needed to have a sexual experience from an experienced woman.

And she was receiving many valuable trinkets and gifts from the Prince, but she wanted more. 

And in 1919, she found her first husband, Charles Laurent. But the marriage was dissolved only six months, but Marguerite got what she had wanted, apartment, stable of horses, cars, and servants.

Then two years later, Prince Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey first met Marguerite Laurent in 1921. 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. 

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 wives.

The marriage of Marguerite and her prince was unhappy. A woman as shrewd, independent, and openly sexual as Marguerite 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.

The Princess was not happy with the way Prince Fahmy treated her - especially sexually. There were rumors in Egypt regarding the Prince's homosexuality.

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 2am, Marguerite had shot Fahmy with the Browning .32 pistol that she had been keeping under her pillow. She was arrested, and Fahmy died of his injuries an hour later. 

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.

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, they painted a picture of her dead husband that was so vile (and racist) that the jury let her go with no convictions.

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. After she died, her grandson found that her lavish life had been funded by five different men.

 

 

 

 

 

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