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Born Margaret Hookham in Reigate, in 1934 Margot attended the Vic-Wells Ballet School, and by the time she was 20 had danced the lead in three of the great classics: 'Giselle', 'Swan Lake' and 'The Sleeping Beauty'. She later joined Lilian Baylis's Sadlers Wells Company where she became emotionally involved with Constant Lambert (brother of the sculptor Maurice Lambert), who wrote 'Horoscope', 1938, for her. She danced the lead in his 'Tiresias', 1951. Fonteyn came out of semi-retirement to dance with Rudolf Nureyev at his debut with the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, in 1962, and with him formed one of the greatest ballet partnerships of the twentieth century.