Isabel Preysler is indomitable and continues to hold the over-title of the queen of hearts, beyond the success of her daughter, Tamara Falcó. All the parameters support it. Her memoir, My True Story, has already become the season’s best-seller, as it appears as the best-selling book in all Amazon categories. Moreover, her appearance on El Hormiguero 3.0 has resulted in a spectacular audience, a 20.1% share and an average of more than 2.4 million viewers, which represents a record this season for Pablo Motos.
Beyond these data completely favorable to the widow of Miguel Boyer, the truth is that her content, as expected, has not sat well with everyone. There are even talks that the content concerning Mario Vargas Llosa could prompt legal action by the relatives of the Nobel Prize in Literature. To them we must add the anger of Olivia de Borbón.
The woman who will soon be the Duchess of Seville, a title she has already formally requested, though her brother Francisco de Borbón said that their father’s wish was that he inherit it, has shown her anger at statements that go back to earlier days, but have deeply upset her to see them in black and white.
Perhaps the most painful thing for Olivia de Borbón is that they refer to her mother. Beatrice Wilhelmine Paula Countess von Hardenberg, who, having died, cannot defend herself. Olivia de Borbón, happily married to the businessman Julián Porras Figueroa, also asserts that the accusations made against her mother are false.
The Secret Relationship Between Isabel Preysler and Carlos Falcó
To put this in context, it is worth noting that this refers to the period when Isabel Preysler’s relationship with the conquistador Carlos Falcó, father of Tamara Falcó, who has inherited the Marquessate of Griñón, was still secret. They were keeping it under absolute discretion for more than a year, but according to Preysler, it was the Duchess Consort of Seville who leaked it to the magazine ¡Hola!
On page 107 of the book, Isabel states that there was a message on the answering machine of the mentioned magazine leaking the news. They listened to it, apparently, Jaime Peñafiel and Carmen Martínez-Bordiu, and she states that they concluded that it was Beatrice Wilhelmine Paula Countess von Hardenberg due to her strong German accent.
Carmen Martínez-Bordiu and Isabel Preysler, at the height of their friendship.
«We do not speak of the dead because they cannot defend themselves,» Olivia de Borbón has said, according to Informalia. She also asserts that her mother suffered greatly from these rumors that came from the past and were unfounded, according to her account.
In the book, Isabel Preysler maintains that she can imagine the motive for the leak, but she does not specify it. Another important detail to consider is that the late Duke of Seville dated Beatriz Preysler, Isabel’s sister, who died prematurely of lung cancer at 53 in 2011. She left behind her two children devastated, but Álvaro Castrillejo commented in an interview with Mujerhoy that they had learned to accept this blow of life.
These were terrible moments for the whole family, especially for Isabel Preysler, who was very close to her, and for her mother, Beatriz Arrastia, who lost no fewer than three of her five children. Arrastia, who lived until the end of her days in her daughter’s Puerta de Hierro villa, was a very devout woman and faith was fundamental for her to move forward.
