Famous beautiful lady from Kinh Bac, 2 times as an unofficial wife, lonely at the end of her life
Ms. Mong Diep was born in 1924, from Bac Ninh. She came from an ordinary family, her father worked in the railway industry. Her childhood lived mainly with her grandmother, then her uncle took her to Hanoi to study.
At the age of 17, a beautiful girl surnamed Bui fell in love with Mr. Pham Van Phan, a married doctor. Because he followed Christianity, he said he could not marry a concubine, and the two broke up even though they had children together. This son took his mother’s last name and was named Bui Huu Hung. This son was later adopted by King Bao Dai as his godchild and was loved very much.
Mong Diep has the beauty of diving, salty, and loving birds of a girl from Kinh Bac. That beauty captivated many young men and also made King Bao Dai forget his vow of fidelity to one husband and wife with Nam Phuong Queen.
The beautiful beauty of Mrs. Mong Diep.
Going back to the story line, after the August Revolution in 1945, President Ho Chi Minh invited former emperor Bao Dai to Hanoi to work as an adviser to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. An intellectual here arranged for Mrs. Mong Diep to meet Bao Dai. As soon as they met on the tennis court, the former emperor fell in love with this beautiful, graceful, delicately behaved girl.
They then lived together in an apartment on Tran Hung Dao street. At the same time, he maintained two parallel love affairs when publicly dating another famous beauty, Ly Le Ha. However, Mrs. Mong Diep still loved him very much.
In March 1946, former emperor Bao Dai was sent by President Ho Chi Minh to China and stayed abroad on a diplomatic mission. In 1949, some time after Bao Dai returned to collaborate with the French, he welcomed the beautiful Mong Diep to Da Lat, and then to Buon Ma Thuot.
Mong Diep when he was young brought the typical beauty of Kinh Bac women.
The happiest life of “concubine” Mong Diep was when she lived in Buon Ma Thuot with Bao Dai. Although she became the second wife when Bao Dai abdicated and was not allowed to have a wedding, but thanks to taking care of the ancestor worship of the royal family very carefully, this woman is still known as the “non-Northern thing”. “.
“Thu concubine” Mong Diep was also very popular with Empress Dowager Tu Cung, often returning to Hue to visit her. The Empress Dowager also gave a hat to Mrs. Mong Diep to represent Queen Nam Phuong in the sacrifices.
Madame Mong Diep and former Emperor Bao Dai in Hanoi.
In 1953, Madame Mong Diep decided to stay in France after bringing a pair of seals and some treasures of the Nguyen Dynasty to France, and brought Queen Nam Phuong to keep it at the request of Bao Dai.
In 1955, after losing the title of Head of State, Bao Dai also went to France. This time, “consort” gave birth to him 2 sons. Her three sons, including a stepchild with Mr. Pham Van Phan, passed away early, daughter Nguyen Phuc Phuong Thao was married far away, constantly ill.
In the last days of her life, she lived alone in France. She once wished to go back to live in her hometown so that when she disappeared from the mountain, she would be buried near Duc Tu Cung’s tomb in Hue, but in the end, she couldn’t. She died in France in 2011, aged 87.
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