The keys to the breakup of Isabel Preysler and Mario Vargas Llosa: he felt alien to the hubbub of 'Villa Meona'

• MARIA EUGENIA YAGÜE

Updated Saturday, January 7, 2023-00:45

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• Relations Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his break with Isabel Preysler and denies that it was out of jealousy: "The reasons he has given are not true"

"My father is fantastic. Finishing his latest novel and putting the finishing touches on his admission speech to the French Academy in February."

spoke

at the door of the Nobel Prize winner's house, near Puerta del Sol. Father and son were returning from Paris, where the writer took refuge after breaking off his relationship with Isabel Preysler.

However,

when LOC tried to find out his true state of mind.

Nothing to add to the comment he made on his return to Madrid, denying that his jealousy was the trigger for the breakup.

Many versions are circulating

these days about the reasons for the surprising end of a romance that caused astonishment when it was made public in 2015. Some are crazy, such as the one that attributes Tamara Falcó to being the

, when the truth is that between the young Marquise de Griñón and her mother's boyfriend have always been especially complicit and close.

Others speak of couple arguments in strong tones, when Preysler is conciliatory and calm and the novelist is a respectful and exquisitely educated man.

This is the opinion of the people who have treated them and who explain the break as a growing disparity in tastes and customs, more and more pronounced.

The atmosphere at Isabel's house is not the same as when Vargas Llosa settled in the Puerta de Hierro chalet in 2015.

, all of them more interested in their mobile phones than in topics literary.

The

, more than a jealous attack, could have needed

It is possible that at the age of 86 he

, with less strength and more ailments, more insecure and vulnerable, in an increasingly foreign environment.

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Breaking off.

Isabel Preysler left Vargas Llosa by letter after a row in the bathroom that a friend of hers heard

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Isabel Preysler left Vargas Llosa by letter after a row in the bathroom that a friend of hers heard

Until one day, on Christmas Eve,

It was not the first time, but this time it is possible that both of them have felt that a weight was lifted from their shoulders.

In October, Vargas Llosa and Preysler made a tourist visit to Toledo.

Shortly after, she and her daughters accompanied him at his literary party in El Escorial.

But in mid-November

, where Tamara celebrated her 41st birthday.

The mother of the marquise was not among the guests of the agency that organized this promotional trip for a luxury resort.

family group instead of accompanying the Nobel.

The break seemed inevitable.

The writer in the library of Isabel Preysler's house. JOSÉ AYMÁ

The romance between the author of

and the

produced a media tsunami when it was made public in June 2015, but the relationship had been rumored for long before.

In 1986

made Preysler her star reporter and that is how she met the Peruvian writer when she interviewed him at the University of St. Louis, in Missouri.

They hit it off, there was a

.

, she was an attractive and elegant woman and the writer, a born seducer who was on his second marriage.

The first with his aunt Julia, whom he left for Patricia Llosa, her cousin.

The

and they saw each other frequently when they met in Spain.

Felipe González's former minister loved intellectuals of stature, like himself, and the treatment of the Peruvian writer, already internationally recognized, was enriching and fun.

The Peruvian journalist Mona Jiménez, organizer in Madrid of those lentil lunches to which the entire political class attended and where the crush between the Marquise de Griñón and the socialist minister Miguel Boyer took place, who after a dinner at Jockey, invited For the two marriages,

Isabel Preysler at the Moët Chandon party held in December where she went without Mario.GTRES

A few years after her wedding to Boyer in 1988, Isabel told a friend at the La Meridiana restaurant in Marbella that she was

"We are in a downturn," she acknowledged.

And in one of those summers in Marbella that she spent with her children and her former minister, Isabel received a call from Vargas Llosa from the Buchinger clinic to invite her to dinner.

Isabel did not want to go alone to avoid the

and she asked that same friend to accompany them, but she could not be.

At that time, the journalist Pedro Rodríguez collected in his column in the magazine Tiempo the rumor of a possible suicide attempt by Miguel Boyer.

The reasons: the possible infidelity of his wife Isabel Preysler with the Peruvian writer.

The news was immediately denied and considered a falsehood created to harm the former minister of Felipe González and his government.

After years without talking about the subject, on one of

, invited by Prince Charles, the ceramics company added to the group, headed as always by Isabel Preysler, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa.

The reunion between the writer and the

at the Ritz hotel in the British capital

Presyler had been a widow of Miguel Boyer for a few months.

The Nobel Prize winner had just celebrated 50 years of marriage with Patricia and her children in New York.

They say that

and that the next day they appeared at breakfast, smiling and delighted with life.

But only they know the truth of that London night, although shortly after a photo in

de Preysler and the writer in the surroundings of the Eurobuilding hotel uncovered the romance of the year, which was echoed by the press around the world.

Patricia Llosa was surely happy that her suspicions from years ago were correct and declared: "My children and I are surprised and very saddened by the photos that have appeared in a gossip magazine. Just a week ago

celebrating our 50 years of marriage. We ask that you respect our privacy."

For his part,

, also spoke in the

newspaper : "I am deeply sorry for that unnecessary exhibitionism that we have seen since the cover of that heart magazine on June 10; that is, just six days after I left the house where I lived with my mother. Especially in the case of

Morgana, the third of the children, took sides with her mother and never wanted to treat Isabel.

While Álvaro, the closest to her father, was the first to approach Preysler over time and knew how to understand this mature love.

For his part, the writer declared that he was spending "the happiest year of my life...

, and I am very hopeful that in the future this will have an effect not only on my private life, but also , and fundamentally, in my work as a writer", he explained euphoric and in love.

The divorce was complicated and took months to resolve.

Patricia Llosa's lawyer, Elena Zarraluqui, got her client to keep the best of her assets achieved in 50 years of marriage.

From the apartment in New York, on 57th Street and Eighth Avenue, the best area of ​​Manhattan, to the couple's home in a residential area of ​​Lima.

Mario kept the apartment on Saint-Sulpice street in Paris, where he had begun his married life, and the house in the center of Madrid, bought in 2002. There is part of the

, divided between Spain, Lima and Arequipa, the hometown of Vargas Llosa.

The copyright of the Nobel's 50 works and writings will one day pass to his children.

Isabel Preysler would have had little economic inheritance if she had married the writer, something she always considered unnecessary, although some say otherwise.

has not been the cause that she broke off a relationship of more than seven years.

An

and an intimacy surrounded by family crowds.

Surely they have always been incompatible, as Martin Bianchi, a journalist who knows what he is talking about, assures.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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