Where is margot fonteyn buried

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Leonard Constant Lambert , composer and conductor, was born in Fulham in London on 23rd August , a son of George and his wife Amelia. The Russian Diaghilev ballet company commissioned a ballet from him and he later composed songs, piano and orchestral works. He married Florence Chuter later divorced and their son was Christopher. He was first musical director of the Vic-Wells ballet, later Sadler's Wells. While touring in Holland he narrowly escaped capture by the Nazis when they invaded.

Isabel Delmar was his second wife and he died on 21st August and is buried at Brompton cemetery in London. She was inspired by Markova's dancing and joined the Vic-Wells school. Later she took the stage name Margot Fontes, which became Fonteyn. While still young she performed in Ashton ballets and later had a relationship with Lambert. After the war she was also acclaimed in America and married Dr Roberto de Arias in He was a politician in Panama and later ambassador in London. Her career was extended due to her renowned partnership with Rudolf Nureyev.

She was made a Dame in and died in Panama City on 21st February and was buried there near her home. A memorial service was held in the Abbey on 2nd July. A depiction of Fonteyn dancing appears in a small stained glass window in Cheyneygates , in the precincts of the Abbey.

This was designed in the s and was put in by the wife of Dean Don. It can now be seen from the cloister. Just as striking and unconventional as the graveside scene was the ceremony in Nureyev's honour earlier in the day at the Opera de Paris, where Nureyev had led the city's ballet company after his greatest years with Margot Fonteyn at the Royal Ballet in London. The ceremony of remembrance was held not on the stage in front of a seated audience but in the grandiose marbled foyer.

The coffin was taken to the top of the grand staircase by six principal dancers with the Paris company and there it was surrounded by various gamin looking youngsters in their jerkins and anoraks from the company's ecole de danse.

A small cushion bearing the insignia of a Commander of Arts and Letters - France's highest award for achievements in the arts - was placed two steps below the coffin.

Invited guests all stood, some on the steps, some leaning over balconies, several dozen clustered round the mourners and small orchestra at the foot of the steps. But there was really only one performance, and that not from an artist, but from Jack Lang, France's Minister of Culture, gesticulating animatedly in his effusive oration.

The gods, he said, had put in Nureyev's constellation exceptional gifts: 'La beaute, la puissance, le gout de l'absolu. Il atteint une dimension mythique. Comme le phenix, il renait chaque matin apres s'etre extenue chaque soir.