Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson

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Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson
Born(1930-01-28)28 January 1930
Reykjavík, Iceland
Died27 August 2020(2020-08-27) (aged 90)
Spouses
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(m. 1951; div. 1952)​
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(m. 1953; div. 1961)​
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(m. 1963)​
Children5, including
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson
Parent(s)Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson
Margrét Þorbjörg Thors Hallgrímsson
RelativesThor Philip Axel Jensen (grandfather)
Ólafur Thors (uncle)
Thor Thors (uncle)
Sigurgeir Sigurðsson (uncle)
Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa (grandson)

Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson (28 January 1930 – 27 August 2020), also referred as Thora Hallgrimsdottir, was an Icelandic socialite and aristocrat who was the wife of the businessman Björgólfur Guðmundsson and like him was a prominent figure in the cultural and business life of Iceland from around 2002 to 2008. She was also the former wife of American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell.[1]

Family and surname

Þóra was born in

Royal Dutch Shell in Iceland and consul in Canada, and his wife Margrét Þorbjörg Thors Hallgrímsson, daughter of the businessman Thor Philip Axel Jensen.[2][3]

Although ethnically Icelandic, Þóra's father Hallgrímur was born in

patronym, which his father had taken as a surname when moving to Canada. In turn, Þóra also inherited the surname, giving rise to the unusual situation of a female Icelander with a last name ending in -son (see Icelandic name
).

At 14, Þóra was sent to boarding school in the UK.[4]

Marriages

While studying in England, Þóra received a marriage proposal from David Tomlinson, whereupon her father had her return to Iceland, via a spell studying in the USA.[5] Once in Iceland, Þóra met Haukur Clausen,[6] an Olympic athlete and later dentist, and married him on 6 January 1951.[7] Together they had Örn Friðrik (born 13 July 1951),[7] but they separated just a year later due to Clausen having an affair with Þóra's best friend.[8]

On 3 October 1953 Þóra married

U.S. Navy and later founder of the American Nazi Party, moving with him to America. With him she had three further children: Hallgrímur, Margrét, and Evelyn Bentína.[3][9]
In Roger Boyes's account,

African-Americans.[10]

Accounts of Þóra's divorce from Rockwell, which include Rockwell's own autobiography, and her return to Iceland vary. Her father Hallgrímur travelled to the United States in 1958 to bring his daughter home;

Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson
, but Björgólfur Guðmundsson also adopted Þóra's children by Rockwell.

Þóra's grandson, by her daughter Evelyn Bentína Björgólfsdóttir, is former footballer Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa.[15]

Controversy over biography

In 2005, Guðmundur Magnússon published the book Thorsararnir, on the history of the descendants of Thor Jensen. In the first version of the book was a chapter on Þóra's marriage with Rockwell. The book was published by the press Edda, but Björgólfur, who owned the publisher, had the author change the text. Moreover, he tried to buy the newspaper Dagblaðið-Vísir, which had discussed the matter, in order to close it down.[16]

Appearances in popular culture

Þóra was the model for the character Lilja Jónsdóttir in the novel Sakleysingjarnir by Ólaf Jóhann Ólafsson.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ "1967: 'American Hitler' shot dead". BBC News. 25 August 1967. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  2. ^ "Greinasafn - Innskráning". mbl.is (in Icelandic). 19 September 1989. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Greinasafn - Innskráning". mbl.is (in Icelandic). 10 September 1996. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  4. ^ Thor Bjorgolfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust—And Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, and What I Learned on the Way (London: Profile, 2014), p. 18.
  5. ^ Thor Bjorgolfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust—And Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, and What I Learned on the Way (London: Profile, 2014)., p. 18.
  6. ^ Thor Bjorgolfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust—And Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, and What I Learned on the Way (London: Profile, 2014)., p. 18.
  7. ^ a b Cf. 'Haukur Clausen', Morgunblaðið, 13 May 2003, http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/730658/.
  8. ^ Thor Bjorgolfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust—And Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, and What I Learned on the Way (London: Profile, 2014), p. 18.
  9. ^ Archived copy Archived 23 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 63-64.
  11. ISBN 1-59364-014-5), https://archive.org/details/ThisTimeTheWorld_37
    ; Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 63-64; Ingi Freyr Vilhjálmsson, Hamskiptin: Þegar allt varð falt á Íslandi (Reykjavík: Veröld, 2014), p. 55.
  12. ^ Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 63-64.
  13. ^ Thor Bjorgolfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust—And Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, and What I Learned on the Way (London: Profile, 2014), p. 19.
  14. ^ This Time The World, the autobiography of George Lincoln Rockwell Archived 2017-05-16 at the Wayback Machine; Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 63-64.
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  16. ^ Ritskoðari einokar dagblaðamarkað. DV, 1. nóvember 2008.
  17. ^ Aldarspegill sakleysingjanna. Morgunblaðið, 31. October 2004.
  18. ^ 'Chairman of Landsbanki burning books?', Iceland Review (December 05, 2005, updated January 30, 2014).

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