The woman in the above photograph had long ago retired to a remote ranch in Central America when she posed for Lord Snowdon in the above photograph. In her twilight years, she was content but struggled to make ends meet. At her lowest point, she lacked even a telephone. It was a far cry from her heyday, when she was a dazzling international star, a household name in a profession that does not produce so many. Who was she?

HINT: It might be said that this woman, born Peggy Hookham, left a garden to live on a ranch. 

​The answer is after the JUMP.

“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”
 
Margot Fonteyn, Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography 

Image Credit: Angus McBean, Portraits