Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson 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.
Background
Þóra was born in Reykjavík, the eldest daughter of Hallgrímur French Hallgrímsson, chairman of Shell in Iceland and consul in Canada, and his wife Margrét Þorbjörg Thors Hallgrímsson, daughter of the businessman Thor Philip Axel Jensen. Although ethnically Icelandic, Þóra"s father Hallgrímur was born Canadian.
His surname Hallgrímsson was not a patronym, but in fact his father"s patronym, which his father had taken as a surname when moving to Canada.
Career
In turn, Þóra also inherited the surname, giving rise to the unusual situation of a female Icelander with a last name ending in -son. In 2005, Guðmundur 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. Þóra was the model for one of the characters in the novel Sakleysingjarnir by Ólaf Jóhann Ólafsson.