Esther Doña, after leaving El Rincón: "Carlos, from above, is seeing everything"

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The first week of June Esther Doña collected her things and left the El Rincón palace to settle in a flat on her property in Majadahonda. After the death of her husband, Carlos Falcó, the widowed Marchioness of Griñón remained for almost three months, in what had been her marital home since her wedding in 2017 . Forced to quarantine after having tested positive for coronavirus, the disease that cost her husband's life, she left there because to continue living in that imposing nineteenth-century mansion, she had to face the large expenses of maintaining the palace.

Doña left El Rincón with one of her best friends , her only company at this time in solitude and with her inseparable Chloé , the Maltese gift of the Marquis when her former Maltese bichon died, Tiffany , who died suddenly two days after the wedding of its owner. "She was a little dog who lived with us, slept with us, ate breakfast with Carlos, who was waiting for her to have breakfast with her and give her the fruit," recalls Esther.

The widowed Marchioness would have preferred to stay in the ramshackle palace, where some areas literally fall apart. Two days before one of the weddings taking place there, a pine tree fell on top of three cars parked outside the door, one of them Esther's white RangeRover. And on another occasion, a piece of ceiling collapsed on the toilet in one of the bathrooms, one meter from the father of the bride who was celebrating her party at the palace.

The five children of Carlos Falcó informed their widow that until then they had taken care of the usual household expenses, but would not continue to do so . The Corner was put up for sale and had to be evicted from tenants.

Years ago the marquis wanted to get rid of this 30-room property, surrounded by 300 hectares, vineyards and a hunting estate, which his aunt Paloma Falcó left him in inheritance in 1994. He started asking for 12 million euros , they were reduced to 10 and now his heirs ask for around eight million. Taking into account that Manuel Falcó , the eldest son of the five that the marquis had in his three previous marriages, lent his father around five million euros to save some of his businesses, which will be divided among the five children, it is quite diminished.

Esther Doña does not appear in the marquis's will, they had separated property but her widow is legally entitled to financial compensation for the right to use the marital home. The lawyers of both parties negotiate the amount of that usufruct.

" We are all getting along very well. Everyone, everyone," one of the Falcó brothers assures LOC, including Esther Doña in this family totality. "Everything is cordial and super correct, there is no problem and we hope that the situation will remain that way because it is the style of our family," he adds.

Correctly but pressured by the pressure of the heirs, Esther Doña reluctantly left El Rincón . His wish would have been to take over the wedding and event business held each year at the palace from May to October. She had made plans, accounts, ideas that she presented to her husband's children and that were rejected outright. "We don't want to take over that business," adds one of them. "We have our life, there are chapters that are closing and this is one. It has been very hard but this is the situation."

The problem now facing the heirs is that there are 17 weddings hired and signed for this year, the first one this August. Wedding parties that have been unilaterally canceled by the marquis' children, to the surprise and anger of future spouses, as one of the couples tells us. All the bride and groom have made an advance of 3,000 euros, which must be returned by the Falcó family, "but now, with so little time, to see where we find a farm to get married, they have done us incalculable damage."

The 22 weddings scheduled per season, at 6,000 euros each of the banquets, gave the business a gross return of about 130,000 euros a year . "With that, the palace would be maintained phenomenally without making a large outlay. Now the plans are different," Esther Doña tells LOC, with a tone of resignation.

Doña ensures that she is in good spirits. "It was very hard," he says. "It is hard to believe what has happened. Sometimes it is like Carlos is traveling, that he is going to return, you have not just believed that he is not. I still have not made up my mind."

He has no other plans at the moment, but he assures that his life is in Madrid, although he will occasionally travel to Malaga to be with his family. Nor does he read the news that speaks of her after the death of the marquis. "I remember when they told me that Carlos had passed away, they didn't even give me time to notify the family , and all the televisions were already saying things and many, nonsense."

Esther remembers her husband's last lunch at the Academy of Gastronomy, which was also attended by Alfonso Cortina, another victim of Covid-19. "Carlos asked me to go with him but I did not want to go and I advised him to stay, there was already a lot of talk about infections. We are people to hug, kiss, we like physical contact. A very high price."

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