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Margaretha Geertrudia MacLeod (Zelle) was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan. She was known by her stage name, Mata Hari and was born on the 7th of August 1876.
She was convicted of being a spy for the Germans during the World War I and was condemned because the French needed a scapegoat. She was executed by firing squad in France on October 15, 1917.
Margaretha Geertrudia Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands and was the eldest of four children to Adam Zelle (1840-1910) and his first wife, Antje van der Meulen (1842-1891).
Her father owned a hat shop, made investment’s in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha and her siblings a lavish early childhood that included exclusive until the age of thirteen. Soon after her father went bankrupt in 1889, her parents divorced and her mother died in 1891.
Her father remarried in Amsterdam on February 9, 1893 to Susanna Catherina ten Hoove (1844-1913). The family then fell apart and Margaretha went to live with her godfather, Mr. Visser in Sneek. She was removed from her school when her headmaster began to flirt with her and a few months later, she fled her uncle’s home in The Hague.
She got married to the Dutch colonial Army captain, Rudolph MacLeod on July 11, 1895 and they moved to Malang on the east side of the Java island.
They had two children, Norman-John MacLeod and Louise Jeanne MacLeod. Rudolph was an alcoholic and she left him. She moved to Paris in 1903 where she performed as a circus horse rider using the name Lady MacLeod which disgusted the Dutch
MacLeod’s. She rose to great prominence as an exotic dancer in 1904 and openly flaunted her body to captivate her audiences. She became a courtesan and she had different lovers from different nationalities. She was accused of being a spy and
was executed by twelve French soldiers just before the dawn of October 15, 1917. She was forty-one at that time and refused to be bounded or blind-folded and defiantly blew a kiss to the firing squad before her death.
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