Why, more than 70 years after her death, Eva Perón remains so fascinating - IN FOCUS: As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical ‘Evita’ prepares for its West End return, ...

Why, more than 70 years after her death, Eva Perón remains so fascinating. As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical ‘Evita’ prepares for its West End return, ...

Peron's second wife, the beautiful Eva Duarte - better known as Evita - has not been able to rest in peace either since her death in 1952 aged just 33. Her body was stolen and lay in an anonymous ...

In Argentina, Eva, who died in 1952 at age 33, remains a polarizing figure. Many view her as the opportunistic wife of a fascist authoritarian, Juan Perón, who enacted violent crackdowns on ...

But globally, Eva Peron remains a pop culture icon. She was loved and reviled in equal measure in Argentina: A saintly social justice warrior to some, a self-serving manipulator to others.

So influential was Eva’s legacy that when Perón was ousted from power years later in a 1955 coup, his usurpers had her embalmed body smuggled aboard a ship to Italy, and buried under a false ...

So influential was Eva’s legacy that when Perón was ousted from power years later in a 1955 coup, his usurpers had her embalmed body smuggled aboard a ship to Italy, and buried under a false ...

The Vatican was inundated with requests for her canonisation. So influential was Eva’s legacy that when Perón was ousted from power years later in a 1955 coup, his usurpers had her embalmed body ...

So influential was Eva’s legacy that when Perón was ousted from power years later in a 1955 coup, his usurpers had her embalmed body smuggled aboard a ship to Italy, and buried under a false ...