Mata Hari From Plain Jane to Seductive Spy via Paul Harvey

Описание: Mata Hari From Plain Jane to Seductive Spy via Paul Harvey and now the rest of the story #paulharvey #therestofthestory #americansperspective #matahari #seductive

From the day she was born Margaret Gertrude Zelle was as plain as plain can be The product of an upper class Holland Dutch family she was educated in the finest schools At the age of 14 she was admitted to a convent where she received the guidance of the sisters for 4 years Her chance for romance came at 18 Vacationing in the Dutch capital Margie met a handsome military man Of Scottish descent Captain Campbell MacLeod held a commission in the Dutch Colonial Army He was more than twice Margie's age That in itself made the captain still more adorable as far as Margie was concerned Similarly MacLeod was captivated by the girl's youth and innocence Soon the captain proposed Margie accepted and for the first time in her life the plain Jane Dutch girl felt beautiful Margie's marital bliss was not to last In less than a year she had become a dreary housekeeper whose drudgery was taken for granted Eventually she learned the rest of the story that her husband was nothing more than an aging roué Marrying young Margie he had hoped to recapture the excitement of his own youth Indeed that was lost forever Even his continuing infidelity was more out of habit than passion To make matters worse Captain MacLeod also drank and he gambled At 1 point he very nearly gambled away everything he owned And thus did Margie the neglected young housewife dissolve into a daydreamy world a succession of feminine fantasies in which she saw herself as mysterious and desired as in control of her destiny Yet the real-life marriage of just plain Margie continued its sullen sway between the mundane and the insane Captain MacLeod even savagely beat poor Margie threatened her with a loaded revolver sometimes In 1902 the MacLeods were divorced but Margie now in her late 20s disillusioned and disheartened still clung to the elaborate fantasies which had sustained her through the boredom and the brutality of her marriage Of course innumerable women under similar circumstances have dreamed similar dreams And yet if only this once such a woman made such dreams come true For Margie left Margie in Holland and moved to Paris and created for herself a new and exotic identity She danced on the stage She enslaved powerful men in her passionate snare She engaged in espionage for the Germans during the first World War And that's how a dreary and downtrodden housewife rose phoenix-like from the ashes of her own disillusionment to become the ultimate femme fatale That's right She became a mysterious and irresistibly sensuous man trap known all over the world as the ultimately seductive spy called Mata Hari Now you know the rest of the story