Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy (1945 – April 12, 1967) was the daughter of South Vietnam’s First lady

Madame Nhu Trần Lệ Xuân (; 22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the ''de facto'' First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief adviso ...

and

Ngô Đình Nhu James (Giacôbê) Ngô Đình Nhu (7 October 19102 November 1963) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and State Counsellor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held no formal exe ...

, the head of the

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Biography

On November 2, 1963, at the time of the assassinations of her father and her uncle

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she had been with her mother in

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, since October, and preparing for a trip to Italy. The new government of

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refused to issue her a visa to return and she resettled in Europe with her mother. Lệ Thủy was attending law school in

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, when on April 12, 1967, at the age of 22, she was killed in an automobile accident in

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, France. Just over 45 years later, her younger (and only) sister Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên was killed in an April 16, 2012, automobile accident in Rome, Italy.

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Photos of Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy
1945 births 1967 deaths Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War Vietnamese Roman Catholics Ngo family Road incident deaths in France French people of Vietnamese descent {{Vietnam-bio-stub