Isabel Preysler How to be (almost) better at 70 than 40
Unlike
Isabel Preysler (70),
her mother always kept a very discreet background in the maelstrom of the press of the heart.
Today, at the age of 98,
Beatriz Arrastia,
who was affectionately called
Betty
or
Beba,
has died surrounded by her entire family in
Madrid.
A mother of six, Isabel remains the most popular of all the Preyslers.
Beatriz Arrastia Reinares
was of Riojan origin since her paternal grandfather
Fernando
went to the
Philippines
to fight in the war of 1899 and her maternal grandfather,
Valentín,
left behind his comfortable life in the town of
Cihuri,
which currently has just 200 inhabitants. but where the great matriarch of the Preysler clan still had a great house where she used to spend part of the summer. Valentin married an attractive young woman from the
Kampangan ethnic group
in the
Pampanga
region
,
the first province to be occupied by Spaniards. From that union was born
José
who, married to
Teodorica,
He had 10 children, including Beatriz.
In addition, he was a playboy with the power that came from being an important landowner, so he had more offspring outside of marriage, such as former actress
Neile Adams,
who married the indomitable
Steve McQueen,
and a
former Miss Philippines.
Several biographies assume the Preyslers were Spanish descendants of the court of King
Charles V
who emigrated to possess vast lands of sugar cane on this
Pacific
island
that at the time was one of the most important overseas colonies.
Beatriz was always a tremendously elegant woman, educated in the best schools and tremendously Catholic. In fact, I used to go to mass almost every day. Married to
Carlos Preysler Pérez de Tagle,
delegate of
the Spanish Credit Bank
belonging to one of the great families of the island that ruled the
Marcos
with a heavy hand
, they
had six children
(Victoria, Enrique, Isabel, Carlos and the twins Joaquín and Beatriz) .
The matriarch suffered three tremendously hard blows when Enrique died at the age of 25 in a hotel in
Hong Kong
and Beatriz, who at 53 years did not manage to beat cancer, and when Carlos was in prison for fraud, dying eight years ago because of of liver cancer.
To prevent their daughters Isabel and Beatriz from getting into trouble, their parents sent them to Madrid where they were protected by their uncles
Tessy Arrastia
-sister of their mother Beatriz- and the diplomat
Miguel Pérez Rubio,
whose tentacles reached every corner of a town. high society of which the Marquises of
Villaverde
- Carmen's parents - or the
Sainz de Vicuña were part,
who saw to it that the Preysler entered the sanctum of the Spanish elite. Luck, destiny or determination? Decades later, the great-grandson of the patriarch of the
Sainz de Vicuña
married Isabel (Miguel Boyer). It didn't take long for
Julio Iglesias to
appear on the scene
.
He was never a lover of spotlights, interviews and flashes, but through his grandchildren
Tamara Falcó
and
Julio Iglesias Jr. he
appeared two years ago on television in
Carlos Sobera's program
Volverte a ver,
where everyone witnessed where he came from. the inheritance of beauty to the famous Isabel. Despite his advanced age, he confessed that "my grandchildren are wonderful. You cannot imagine the affection I have for them. That affection so important in life that comes from my soul."
For a long time she was flying from Madrid to the Philippines until in 1992 she became a widow and decided to settle in the fabulous mansion that Isabel owns on
Avenida de Miraflores in Puerta de Hierro,
known as
Villa Meona.
Beatriz enjoyed the company not only of her daughter, but also that of her partner,
Mario Vargas Llosa,
with whom she shared her love of literature, used to listen to classical music and almost always spoke in English.
Another of the unforgettable images was when Tamara published on social networks an image of the celebration of her 35th birthday with the service of the house where her grandmother also appeared.
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