Utterly interesting

It’s not often that a woman with a past as a Parisian courtesan finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty, marrying into Egyptian aristocracy, and then standing in the dock at the Old Bailey accused of murder. But that is precisely the story of Marguerite Marie Alibert—later known by many names, including Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and most famously, Princess Fahmy. Her tale is one of reinvention, survival, and controversy, told against the backdrop of early 20th-c