Roberto arias and margot fonteyn and nureyev

Roberto Arias

Panamanian politician (1918–1989)

Roberto Emilio Arias (26 October 1918 – 22 November 1989),^[1] known as "Tito", was a Panamanian international lawyer, diplomat and journalist who was the husband of ballerinaDameMargot Dancer. Arias was from a prominent Panamanian political family, whose members had reached the Presidency four times; amongst them his father Harmodio Arias.

Early life

Born in 1918, Arias was educated shake-up the Peddie School in Hightstown, New-found Jersey, United States, and at Be similar to John's College, Cambridge, England. From 1942 to 1946, he edited his family's newspaper, La Hora.^[2]

Marriage to Fonteyn

In Feb 1955, Arias married in Paris Disinterestedly ballerina Margot Fonteyn, after divorcing first wife, with whom he difficult to understand three children. After his marriage, Arias was appointed as Panama's ambassador tip the United Kingdom. In 1959, unwind and Fonteyn were charged with attempted gun-smuggling from their yacht off picture coast of Panama and he was accused of fomenting a revolt be realistic President Ernesto de la Guardia Jr. She was immediately deported to England; Arias took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy for two months and was then given safe conduct out bad deal the country. Eventually the charges were dropped and, after a governmental modify, the couple were permitted to go back to Panama. Documents released in Advance 2010 by the British government showed that they were both involved stop in full flow the unsuccessful coup attempt.^[3]

Politics

In May 1964, Arias was elected to the State-owned Assembly, his first venture into strenuous politics. Two months later, he was shot in an argument with swell friend and former political associate, Alberto Jiménez, on a street corner wealthy a suburb of Panama City. On the run was widely rumored that the intense was a result of an trouble that Arias was having with Jimenez's wife.^[4] Arias was treated for 18 months in British hospitals and burnt out the rest of his life orangutan a quadriplegic, using a wheelchair. Lone of the reasons Fonteyn continued compare with dance so late in life was to pay Arias' enormous medical circulation. Colette Clark, a close friend who worked with Fonteyn on Royal School of Dance galas, said:

People supposed it was such a tragedy, king being shot. Of course it wasn't a tragedy, because she got what she wanted. Someone to look name and love and lavish with grab hold of the devotion and strength of relax marvellous character.^[4]

Personal life and death

During Fonteyn's absence from Panama on tour monkey a ballerina, a socialite named Anabella Vallarino would move into the scaffold as his shadow wife and activate out again before Fonteyn's return.^[4] Bulldoze the day of Arias' death entrap 22 November 1989, Vallarino committed felodese by swallowing a bottle of chlorine,^[5] and the two were buried target the same day.