In Paris, at the end of the 19th century, the daughter of Iturbé and ScholtzMaria de la Piedad, Piedita. This girl would marry him Prince of HohenloheMaximiliam von Hohenlohe-Langenburg. During his stays in Malaga, the European prince would go out for walks with Adolfo Pries Scholtz, First count of Prieshis wife’s relative. One night, while he was in Guadalmina, he saw the house that Norberto Goizueta had built and, with the determination that his strong German accent suggests, he said: “I want to buy here.” Príes told him that he could not buy that land, because it belonged to monks and that, besides, he did not understand what he saw in that fishing village. He suggested that he buy in Malaga. The prince must have looked at him with brotherly look. The rest is history.
The boost that this decision gave to Spanish tourism is undeniable. The sophistication of summer holidays in Marbella was known throughout the world. Between Saint Margaret, in Marbella, and The Quexigal, In Ávila, along with Madrid, the Hohenlohe Iturbe established their home. Six children brightened up these farms: Maria Francisca, Pimpinela, who joined forces with the Gamazo; Alphonse, who first married Furstenberg’s anger, a very cosmopolitan couple who have filled countless pages of society magazines; Elizabeth; Maximilian, known to all as Wonni, married for the first time with Ana de Medina Fernández de Córdoba; Christian, who got married Carmen de la Cuadra Medina; and Beatrice, who did it with him IX Duke of Arion, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and Larios. It is striking that all these children, so accustomed to frequenting European parties, married Spaniards, with the exception of Alfonso, who preferred Venice to marry the daughter of Tassio von Furstenberg and Clara Agnelli.
The tennis court The Quexigal It has become an exclusive social gathering center. Foot He organized tea parties, parties, evenings, all sorts of pretexts for the best youth of the time to spend at his house. This is how he appeared Claudio Gamazo Arnus in the life of Burnet. “My daughter, have you seen how the son of Count Gamazo plays tennis?” Sibylline silence. In June [1945[1945 In the chapel of the same farm, they were married. The witnesses of this marriage were, among others, the cousin of the groom, then Duke of Moorish, the duke of Montellano, the marquis of Apple, the count of Platform, Santiago Muguiro, Germán de la Mora, another cousin of the groom, among others. This link makes, suddenly, Foot I will end up spending the summer at Boecillo, a city of Valladolid.
Anna Gamazo Hohenlohe, The second daughter of this beautiful marriage, with rare lucidity, explained to me one morning at her home the differences she had experienced in her childhood due to the enormous contrast between the family of a daughter who had imposed herself. Buckingham Palace, his mother-in-law, and this gallant who wanted to go partridge hunting in Valladolid with his cousin Gabriela Maura de Herrera, his father-in-law. What a wealth of nuances for these brothers who skipped from parties in the palaces of central Europe to the months of September in Boecillo, the city where it all began, to eat green beans.
They also came to Seville, Palace of the Dueñas. I will end with an anecdote which, given the lack of popularity currently experienced by the Duke Consort of Alba, Jesus Aguirre, takes on greater relevance. At the fair April 1978, Exactly one month after marrying the legendary Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, presiding over a lunch for thirty people, the former priest said with superb inspiration to Anna Gamazo Hohenlohe: “As you know, your mother was born in my house.” Surprised and natural, she replied: “At your house, in Santander?” Twisting his gesture, like a Russian character saluting perversity, he raised his voice and, in front of that crowded table, in that Sevillian spring, he said: “Cayetana! This girl does not know that her mother was born in Arbaizenea!”
I leave the astonished look of all those present to the most varied imagination. Let’s get this over with, thought young Anna. “A month of marriage and this is already your house. “I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you about the House of Alba so quickly.” He didn’t like this man at all, because he didn’t like problems, and this man was a real problem. No one was afraid, maybe he hadn’t judged the old man correctly, and he was much more cunning than he let on. This anecdote is true, it was told to me by Anna’s blue eyes. They were also ahead of schedule Pablo Picasso and Francis Baconask them, if you want.
