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Eduardo de Rojas Ordóñez and his second wife Charo Palacios, formed one of the most attractive couples of the Spanish jet, she former model and muse of Elio Berhanyer and he politician, businessman and holder of the county of Montarco. Title dating from the reign of Carlos IV and that his great-great-grandfather, Clemente de Rojas, notary of Fernando VII, acquired for 340,000 reales to settle a debt with its owner, Francisco de los Heros. Eduardo, born in 1909, was the son of Manuel de Rojas, nicknamed El Bueno, and Blanca Ordóñez Lecároz, who ended up eloping to Paris with the diplomat Francisco Marroquín, abandoning their children.
Graduated in Law and Philosophy, he inherited the county in 1929 and also the numerous family farms in Madrid, Murcia and Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca). There they owned the palace Avila and Tiedra, where the Dukes of Windsor stayed when they negotiated that Hitler reinstate them as British monarchs. Eduardo de Rojas founded the Falange with José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and during the world conflagration he enrolled in the Blue Division to fight against the Soviets, being arrested in Belarus. Active in fighting for the interests of the countryside, he founded La Gaceta Rural, very critical of Franco's agrarian policy, and was prosecuted for induction to sedition. Counselor of the Movement and deputy mayor of Madrid, he also participated in the embryo of the CEOE, with his commitment to create companies.
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He married in 1931 in the Jerónimos of Madrid with the aristocrat María Consuelo Pardo, mother of his five eldest children, but they were very different, she preferred to cloister herself to read or listen to opera in her palace of Ciudad Rodrigo -which they sold-, which today is exploited for events.
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After dying of a heart attack in 1965, Eduardo de Rojas met the "last of his shoe", Rosario Palacios Calleja. Daughter of Julio Palacios, a scientist who was preceptor of Prince Juan Carlos, since childhood she was linked to the Royal family. She visited with her parents the Counts of Barcelona in Estoril, became intimate with the Infanta Margarita and also had a friendship with Don Juan Carlos, who invited her to his wedding with Doña Sofía in Athens in 1962. She once told the small committee that Juanito had joked about marrying her. By then, she was already taking steps in fashion because she was a friend of the designer Elio Berhayer, who made her his muse and took her to New York with Naty Abascal to parade at the 1964 Expo. Charo was an alien among the fine girls of her time, who only aspired to a good wedding, while she worked. Her career as a mannequin ended when she married in 1968 in Lisbon with the Count of Montarco, a scandal in her circle, because the groom, in addition to being a recent widower, was 60 years old and she was 31.
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The eldest children of the count never looked kindly on their stepmother, even when the summers went to the pazo de Galicia, occupied a wing and their father another with his new family. Charo soon rose to prominence as Countess of Montarco, overshadowing her husband: they resided in the exclusive Madrid neighborhood of El Viso, she related at the highest level and was fixed in every sarao de postín. According to Ana, youngest daughter of Eduardo de Rojas, in an interview, "he looked down on us before his friends, his goal was to annul us because we hindered him. My father foolishly entered his game of going out in the pink press, becoming the husband of the Countess of Montarco, when the count was him." They also blamed the father for stripping them of the bulk of their maternal inheritance, by creating a company whose capital he enjoyed with his new family and inherited at his death in 2005 the two children he had with Charo: Julio, born in 1969, and Alejandra, in 1979. The county of Montarco, however, passed to Blanca, firstborn of the first marriage and today it is held by her son, Joaquin Zuazo. After also dying in 2016, Charo Palacios, who never recovered from the domestic accident he suffered in 2003 when he hit his head, his two children also inherited from their mother a good patrimony, according to Vanitatis, five properties valued at about 3 and a half million euros and around 4 million capital.
in the process of separation
Alejandra has been a worthy maternal successor in beauty, media prominence and exclusive circle of friends. Educated at a French school, she studied marketing and advertising in London, worked at LVMH and walked for Valentino, Cavalli and Blumarine, as well as acquiring the fashion franchise Maje and collaborating with accessories Cuplé. Assiduous to the royal family, she went in Zarzuela to the celebrations of the Prince and the Infantas and is intimate with María Zurita and Simoneta Gómez Acebo, cousins of Don Felipe. She was the girlfriend of Luis Medina, youngest son of Naty Abascal, but married in 2018 with Beltrán Cavero, nephew of Esperanza Aguirre, with whom she has a 3-year-old son. As it has been published, Alejandra is in the process of separating, something that has coincided with the scandal of pointing her out as the alleged daughter of Don Juan Carlos, so she is devastated. In addition, her stepsister, Ana de Rojas, has fueled the controversy, because although she subtracts credit to the fact that she is the daughter of the emeritus, she questions that her father was Montarco. "My father recognized her in an act of generosity, but genetically it has nothing to do with the Rojas, we always speculate if she would be the daughter of Rui, a beautiful Portuguese friend of Charo."
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