Eight years after his retirement, Risto Mejide recovers its mythical Chester eight years old this Tuesday and he does it with a first high-flying guest: Cayetano Martinez de Irujo. The son of the deceased Duchess of Alba reveals how he is after having undergone eleven operations in two years or at what point is the relationship with his brothers. In addition, he reviews some family anecdotes and surprising moments, such as the one in which the current Duke of Alba told him that his mother had a new boyfriend: “Carlos comes and says that our mother has a boyfriend… Don’t mess around! How can she have a boyfriend at 84! It’s just that she’s a character…”.
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The Count of Salvatierra remembers his terrible childhood as he already did in a memoir that caused great discomfort in his family. He talks about mistreatment and abandonment. However, he was able to redirect his relationship with his mother during the last years of Cayetana’s life, which made him his right hand. After his death, his brother Carlos inherited the title and deposed him: “Possibly in the Middle Ages he would be in a castle or beheaded”, has said. “I speak with Carlos, he listened to me but he did not tell me what I expected to hear. I worked for Casa de Alba for five years and he has taken 60% of that. He treated me as if I had been a corrupt employee instead of a brother He accused me of being disloyal, which is not true.” And he has accused Carlos of not complying with his mother’s last wishes: “She left two or three written wills that have not been fulfilled, because they are not binding.”
Eugenia Martínez de Irujo’s brother had a really bad time: “Thanks to the administrator who was a great person, Gerardo, that man was honest. He kept paying me for six or seven months without my brother knowing, because if he didn’t the second month I would not have even had enough to pay for my children’s school”.
Since his brother expelled him from the Casa de Alba, Cayetano has focused on his own businesses: “I basically live from agriculture. I’m on the tractor all day, between the large farm, another medium one in Córdoba, two plantations (one of my brother Fernando, that we have made a joint lobby)… And that is what sustains me. I have another small investment that helps me a lot, financial investment”.
Women and therapy: “I couldn’t fall in love”
Childhood traumas prevented him from having healthy relationships with women and a therapist recommended that he undergo intensive treatment as an intern in a center in the United States: “I arrived with my suitcase facing my reality, you have to be very brave to do that. You can’t smoke, they take away your cell phone… Many people leave. It was very hard, I endured five weeks, you do some strong therapies. There were moments when I was crying because of what I was crying for.
Among his conquests, Genoveva Casanova (his only wife and mother of his twin children) and Ana Obregón, Mar Flores or the Infanta Elena: “She did not like it very much that she said it in the book, because it was not known, it was all hidden and secret. I had it clear from the beginning. The Infanta Elena is a great person, I had her very close in the equestrian environment and in three months I realized that I was not fighting to get out of an educational cell as strong as mine to get into a much bigger one”.
For six years, he has been happy with Barbara Mirjan: “It is the first time that I have been able to have a real relationship with more than 50 years, imagine, and before that I could not. And it is very important. We have grown together. I met her at the age of 18 and I at the beginning of My new life. She is 18 years old, I am 53… They did not give two hard for us, but this is consolidating. Barbara is very mature, “she has recounted. And she does not rule out repeating paternity:” I was not open to it before, now I am. She deserves everything. And if everything continues in the direction it is going…”.
