Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson

Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson (born 28 January 1930) is the wife of the businessman Björgólfur Guðmundsson and like him was a prominent figure in the cultural and business life of Iceland from around 2002–2008. She was also the model for one of the characters in the novel Sakleysingjarnir by Ólaf Jóhann Ólafsson.^[1]

Þóra was born in Reykjavík, the daughter of Hallgrímur Fr. Hallgrímsson, chairman of Shell in Iceland and consul in Canada, and his wife Margrét Þorbjörg Thor, daughter of the businessman Thor Jensen. Þóra married Haukur Clausen, an Olympic athlete and later dentist, on January 6, 1951, by whom she had a son, but they separated just a year later. On 3. October 1953 Þóra married George Lincoln Rockwell, an officer in the American Navy and later founder of the American Nazi Party, moving with him to America. Subsequently, Þóra moved back to Iceland with their three children and divorced Rockwell.^[2]

In 1963, Þóra married Björgólfur Guðmundsson, who is 11 years her junior. They have one son, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, but Björgólfur Guðmundsson also adopted Þóra's children by Rockwell. Þóra's grandson is the footballer Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa.

In 2005, Guðmund 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.^[3]

References

External links

• This Time The World, autobiography of George Lincoln Rockwell.