The Duchess of Alba's son strips naked among the sheets of his memoirs, 'From Cayetano to Cayetano': "He wanted to be me and be happy"
Cayetano Martínez de Irujo and Carlos Fitz-James, brothers forced to understand business
This 2019 marks a turning point in the life of Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, Duke of Arjona. At the age of 56 and in top form, the rider son of the Duchess of Alba has returned to the competition with enthusiasm and strength. His book From Cayetana to Cayetano , (Editorial Topics Today) that will be presented on September 23 by the academic Luis María Ansón and the surgeon Enrique Moreno, goes beyond memories . It is a definitive catharsis with which, finally, he finds freedom to be himself. And on September 7, Luis and Amina, the children who were born from their marriage to Genoveva Casanova, celebrate their coming of age with a big party in Arbaizenea, the palace of their father Luis Martínez de Irujo in San Sebastián, which Cayetano received As an inheritance
Why did you choose that mansion precisely? It is the only house left in Sotomayor, my father's title. They are constantly visiting cousins Martínez de Irujo, they all have memories of that house. And it is so beautiful, so special, with so much history, that such an event could not be anywhere else. His mother went to San Sebastián every year. Since his wedding with my father, who gave them that house, he never stopped going every summer, between 20 days and a month, until the end of his life. The last year, in 2014, the people there asked for her but the poor woman only went for a drive to Biarritz, she couldn't take it anymore, but she always went to San Sebastian between July and August. She even went when she discovered that They were threatened by ETA. She told a day that in spite of everything, she passed the terrorists Olympic and walked there without an escort. That happened when they captured an ETA and saw that I had all the itineraries of my brother Jacobo at the time I was working as editor in Madrid. How do your children take this special celebration, which marks the new stage of their life? For me, economically it is quite bad for me, especially now that they are going to London to study both. But the party is worth it and it will be something we will never forget. My children have worked hard this past year and have taken very good grades. They stopped riding, focused on studying and, although Amina had a place in a Spanish university, they requested to enter some in England and have been allowed to be students of the best. Where are they going to focus their studies? There is no such differentiation between Science and Letters, as we had before. Amina is inclined towards something of Economy, in addition to History, and the two are going to do International Relations. With their march to England their children also get rid of being targeted by a certain type of press. It was striking that they themselves issued a statement asking for respect. They have always lived protected because they have seen the struggle that I have led so that they do not have to suffer what I have had to go through, especially with the artichokes of the televisions, sometimes with them as witnesses, trying to avoid being taken out and left alone. When they turned 18, and in view of the one that was mounted, it was their decision to make the statement. They got scared and decided to publicly ask for respect to avoid what happened to me. They wrote it, I read it and I told them, go ahead. Is the whole family going to go, given that, sometimes, the Alba do not seem very well avenues? Fernando and Eugenia, will surely be. Alfonso already said he had a trip and Carlos, I don't know. Iran their cousins, they get along. Thank God, all the cousins have made a point and apart with everything that has happened before. How are you doing with your return to horse riding? I've been working hard, I have hardly had a vacation. I'm upset and happy. Barbara (her partner) is always there. Having a rider boyfriend requires a lot of patience. You are noticed changed for the better, in every way, since she is in your life. It supports me a lot to compete. And it has not brought me more than good things, it has contributed a lot in everything positive, when you read the book you will understand it better, you will understand me better. Is it the most revealing book about your person? It is where you can verify that I have had a Inner life very fucked up, that I am a person to whom they have not given anything, I have achieved everything with a lot of effort. And that after 50 years I was able to free myself, facing everything. The purpose of that book is my total, public liberation, since I have to live a public life. I've been looking for my inner freedom for 50 years despite everyone. And I have done what it took with courage and with an absolute determination to be me and to be happy. Point: What will people who don't know you discover about you? That I am a normal person who has fought for his emotional rehabilitation, for curing all the ills that have been experienced and for being me despite everything, without criticizing or going against you're welcome and nobody, just tell the story of where I was born and how the years of my life have passed. They say he is dedicated to his father. Not only, I have dedicated it to the important people in my life. To my parents, to my children, to Enrique Moreno, (the surgeon who saved his life), to Luis María Ansón, to Florián (who taught him to ride). What is Luis María Ansón for you? Looks like someone with a lot of weight in your life. He never stops mentioning him. It has been a guide for me. Someone who has helped me since my teens. When my father died I had a kind of adoptive father until I was 18, Florián Cortijo, a former rider of the Military School, with whom I started riding. And then it was Luis María who supported me, guided me, was impressive. And there it continues.According to the criteria of
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