Imelda marcos was born in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on July 2, 1929. It can be said that she was a legend from birth. Her father is a local lawyer and her mother is her father's second wife. They had six children together, and imelda was one of them. However, due to some family changes, she can only live in a humble house with other brothers and sisters under the leadership of her mother, but bad luck has not spared their family.
1In September, 938, her father mortgaged the house in Manila, which made the family's life completely in trouble and had to move back to their hometown in Taclaban, South Wright Province. Imelda finished high school and college in his hometown. Although he lived in poverty, it did not affect imelda's pursuit of material things.
18-year-old imelda has grown into a big girl. 1.70' s height, beautiful and enchanting figure, and a face that can charm the Philippine president, made her win the title of "Miss Taclaban" in the local beauty contest. After that, imelda became a well-known star in the Philippines. With the name of "Miss Taklaban", she completely changed her life and that of her family. 1952 23-year-old imelda followed his cousin, Congressman Daniel, and went to the capital Manila to look for opportunities.
When she first arrived in Manila, she was a stranger. In order to make a living, she had to resell records in the local city of China. Later, by coincidence, she entered the intelligence department of the Philippine Ministry of Finance. At the same time, she won the runner-up of "Miss Manila" with 1953, so she once again ushered in the peak of her life and also ushered in the nourishment of love.
Ferdinand marcos was the former president of the Philippines, who ruled the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 and reigned for 2 1 year. But when he met imelda, he was just an ordinary congressman. This man, who was 12 years older than imelda, became the Philippine President by chance. Their love experience is legendary. It is said that they decided to get married only 1 1 day after they met each other, which can be said to be a typical flash marriage family.
After Marcos became the president of the Philippines, Immel became a veritable wife of the president, and this wife joined her husband in Philippine politics and was called "Iron Butterfly" by Filipinos. Although imelda's political ability is low, he collected a lot of important information for her husband Marcos, and his wife imelda participated in many important decisions of Marcos.
Even Marcos himself had to admit that imelda played a vital role in his presidential work. Because of this, Marcos, who loves his wife's beauty, began to rely heavily on her. He is obedient to his wife and indulges her in many illegal acts. Imelda, with her back to the president's husband, began an unscrupulous way to collect money. Her talons have penetrated into all walks of life in the Philippines, and imelda enjoyed unlimited scenery during her husband's administration.
Couples originally worth only tens of thousands of dollars have become 654.38+0 billion dollars due to the serious corruption in imelda. It can be said that during imelda's craziest money-collecting period, the presidential residence was full of luxury goods from all over the world.
Expensive French perfume, countless expensive evening dresses and handbags, and more than 3,000 pairs of expensive shoes in the shoe cupboard alone are just the tip of the iceberg of corruption in imelda. After Marcos stepped down, imelda was also called "the most corrupt first lady in history". The greedy president and his wife finally aroused people's anger.
In the political environment of national protests, the Philippine government had to issue martial law and declare the country into a state of emergency. At that time, the terror in the Philippines was shrouded in tension. In the end, the president and his wife fled to Hawaii, but their corrupt wealth was transferred to their personal accounts, so their lives were still very moist. Even though imelda embezzled more than10 billion of national wealth, many poor Filipinos built a museum for her just because they had donated huge sums of money to help these poor people, Marcos' fate was miserable.
The story of butterfly imelda is still circulating in the streets of the Philippines, although she has passed away now. But the museum built by Filipinos is still there, and people all over the world can't help but sigh that this is really a magical country.