Celebration Cristina Macaya organizes a three-day party for her daughter in Mallorca for her birthday
Cristina Macaya died
this Thursday, at the age of 77,
at her home in Mallorca
as a result of the cancer she had been fighting for some time.
Although she acknowledged that she was not going through a good period of health, she did not want to focus on her illness either.
The businesswoman became
a symbol of the Mallorcan island,
but also the great
hostess
of great figures from the world of royalty, politics and culture, as was the case with former US President
Bill Clinton.
Felipe González
was also another of his guests, without forgetting his great friendship with writers such as
Carlos Fuentes
, who also spent great seasons in Palma de Mallorca.
Among its most VIP guests, faces such as
Michael Douglas
, the designer
Valentino
or characters of the heart, such as
Isabel Preysler
, stand out .
The princes of Monaco
and
King Juan Carlos
, among others,
also passed through his house in Es Canyar .
In addition to bringing together the Majorcan jet set and half the world, Macaya was a
woman who loved art and culture.
After her loss, the president of the Balearic Government,
Francina Armengol
, has mourned her death and has emphasized that she was a
strong and fighting woman.
"We say goodbye to an ambassador of the Islands and hostess of global reach, a
free, pioneering and generous woman,
who improved our society with her values, her cultural commitment and her solidarity initiatives. DEP Cristina Macaya", Armengol has written on the net Twitter social.
With a Galician father and a Sevillian mother,
Cristina Macaya dedicated a large part of her life to
philanthropy
.
She was also, for eleven years,
president of the Spanish Red Cross.
Her management of this entity turned out to be revealing and strategic, since she was the one who promoted the Sorteo del Oro, an initiative that guaranteed the financing of its activities.
Added to her social achievements is that of 2006, when
the United Nations awarded her
the Women Together for her work to improve the living conditions of women imprisoned with her children.
Ever since she was a teenager she had to face death in the face.
She was born in Madrid,
in 1945, into a
wealthy family
and when she was only 15 years old, she lost her father.
"She had a huge impact on me," she recounted in an interview for
SModa
a decade ago.
Cristina Macaya embraces Paco Arango at the funeral of Plácido Arango.GTRES
She also lost her husband,
the financier
Javier Macaya,
when she was 28 years old,
three small children
(Sandra, Javier and Cristina) and was
five months
pregnant with the fourth (María).
With Plácido Arango,
founder of the VIPS group and prominent art collector, he did not go through the altar, but they did spend
more than fifteen years together.
With him, her social life grew and, although she was a woman of a sociable nature and she was very attached to her friends and her family, she was above all a very discreet person
.
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