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. Dubbed the “Queen of the Pacific” the enterprising Beltrán made a name for herself as a cocaine smuggler while masquerading as a well heeled housewife.
Legend has it that on her way to the guillotine she accidentally stepped on her executioners foot and promptly apologized. Shortly after she was killed, an enterprising Madame Tussaud made a death mask from Marie’s severed head, sculpting her face in wax, preserving it in death and giving the queen a kind of immortality. In a final nod to her sun sign, the end of Marie’s life coincided with the end of an era as she was to be the last ever queen of France.
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