"Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias died on 21 February 1991. A Service of Thanksgiving for her Life and Work was held at noon on 2 July at Westminster Abbey. (...)
Friends travelled from every corner of th globe to be there. But two of the people dearest to Margot did not The first of these was Nureyev, whose absence raised many eyebrows. He was after all, only in Paris, and could have flown to London; but, as Maude Gosling said, 'He couldn't come because he was facing his own end.' (...)"
MEREDITH DANEMAN (Meredith Daneman, Margot Fonteyn - A Life, Viking, New York, 2004)
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