Immaculate Cobo

Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-21:54

  • Weddings This is the Colmenar Viejo estate where Martínez-Almeida and Teresa Urquijo will celebrate their wedding

  • Gifts Almeida and Teresa Urquijo's wedding list valued at 85,000 euros: from an Afghan rug to some coasters

Came the day. This Saturday, April 6, José Luis Martínez-Almeida stops being officially single to marry his girlfriend, Teresa Urquijo Moreno (27). Just before turning 49, the mayor of Madrid abandons

the bachelorhood to which, in his words, he was "almost resigned."

Even within his family there was also a feeling that Pepito "was not going to get a girlfriend in his life." Until Teresa arrived and she changed everything. Almeida went from heading the list of golden bachelors that LOC prepares every year, to becoming the husband of a young woman who belongs to a high-born family.

Gone are the jokes about the marital status of the first mayor of Madrid.

Also the continuous search for a girlfriend even in the ranks of his party. There we have the example of Bea Fanjul. She's done.

The mayor's wedding, billed as "the wedding of the year" is scheduled for this Saturday at 12 noon. It will be held in the San Francisco de Borja church, popularly known as Los Jesuitas and located in the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood. After the religious ceremony, the celebration will continue at the

El Canto de la Cruz estate

, a property that belongs to the bride's maternal grandparents,

Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Íñigo Moreno de Arteaga, Marquises of Laserna.

The wedding, which will bring together more than 500 guests,

has caused great excitement

since the mayor is one of the most popular faces of the PP and in fact he will be the first Madrid councilor to get married while in office. But love is capricious like that. The bride was not known to Almeida's level, but her family, with her ancient ancestry, was. Her grandmother, the aforementioned Teresa de Borbón Dos Sicilias,

is the first cousin of King Don Juan Carlos.

In fact, the King Emeritus will be at the link, one of the confirmations that has generated the most stir.

Victoria Federica, Froilán and the Infantas Elena and Cristina will also attend, as is the presence of their mother, Queen Sofía. For their part, Kings Felipe and Letizia will not attend the wedding. The list of politicians is not short either and raises fears that the event will become the mess of Ana Aznar and Alejandro Agag. Feijóo,

Ayuso, Cuca Gamarra, Jorge Azcón or Fernando López Miras

are just some of the

popular ones

who will attend.

Another detail that has emerged and that

Look

revealed is that the menu will be prepared by Lhardy, one of the most recognized restaurants in Madrid. Also, and although the bride is a Real Madrid fan,

the wedding will have some nod to the Atleti that Almeida and his team love so much.

Although the bride and groom are the most excited, their respective families are also experiencing this moment in a very special way. LOC has contacted Rafael, one of the mayor's nephews who confirms everyone's excitement about Pepito's wedding, as they affectionately call his uncle. "I hope they are very happy, I am very happy for them.

It is very nice that my uncle has found his life partner."

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Almeida's family is delighted with Teresa and this is confirmed by people close to the capital's mayor. "She is very educated, affable and generous. She does not seek fame and she is a fairly traditional and conservative person who fits well with him." Teresa has a degree in Law and Business Administration from ICADE

and now works as an investment analyst at Merlin Properties.

Her father, Lucas Urquijo Fernández de Araoz, was the communications director of Roche Farma and is the son of Jaime Urquijo y Chacón, knight of the Sacred and Military Constantinian Order of Saint George. Her mother is Carmen Fernández de Araoz Marañón, granddaughter of the doctor and scientist Gregorio Marañón.

THE BEGGINING

Teresa was the one who first became interested in the mayor and this is what Federico Jiménez Losantos revealed on his radio program:

"She went for him because she liked horrors. And how did she get it?

Her friend Luisa Vergel introduces them in a wedding, but she had asked to meet him. He shied away because he had had some experience that we know of some pretty girl who wanted him for having fun, for being famous, and for telling about it later.

As LOC has been able to confirm, the mayor and his wife

will live in the apartment that Almeida owns in the Tetouan district,

near Paseo de la Castellana, after returning from their honeymoon in Bhutan and the Maldives. Teresa's intention is to redecorate Almeida's bachelor pad to give it a new look. In recent days she has made some purchases in the capital in decoration stores that corroborate this. It was the mayor himself who confessed that he would have to give up some vices such as almost always having an empty refrigerator and "getting on track."

A very special dress

Much has been said about the dress that Teresa will wear on her wedding day. The young woman wanted to pay tribute to her grandmother and her mother by wearing the same dress as them but modified to her silhouette and updated. The bride has entrusted this work to the Navascués atelier, directed by Cristina Martínez-Pardo Cobián. It is a redesign of the fabric of the aforementioned dress, a silver embroidered lamé. She will complete the bridal outfit with an illusion tulle veil and a family jewel.