Elizabeth Preysler, who turns 72 this Saturday, has as successor Tamara Falco. They are very different but they have a lot in common, apart from being of the same blood. For example, both chose very attractive and womanizing men as their husbands. And both have known how to turn fame into a money-making machine. Of course, at the age that the Marquise de Griñón is today, her mother already had five children from three different husbands. The love story of the Filipina is already written to a large extent while that of her daughter restarts somehow this year, after her wedding and in search of her first child.
Isabella Preysler celebrates his first time in a long time without a partner. The mother of Tamara Falco was approached this Friday by television cameras at the exit of the opera at the Teatro Real in Madrid. She was accompanied by her daughter, Íñigo Onieva’s fiancée, and she was friendly and amusing with the press, an attitude far removed from the tension she herself imposed from the pages of various media, when she threw darts at Mario Vargas Llosa.
The queen of hearts called the Nobel Prize winner jealous, pointing to that feeling of the writer as the cause of their breakup; she then leaked a letter she sent him eight years ago Patricia Llosa, the Peruvian’s wife, and in addition he was like a basilisk against her ex-boyfriend, whom she accused of laughing at her daughter after retouching a story that, as it later turned out, was written long before and was never retouched. But then he raised the white flag and asked for peace while Vargas Llosa, accompanied by King Juan Carlos, Infanta Cristina and her entire family, received the highest honors from the French Academy in Paris, of which he is now a member.
At her splendid 72 years recently released, Isabel Preysler has returned to smile, to show her composure and to be kind. The cloud of reporters stationed outside the opera late Friday night assaulted Miguel Boyer’s widow and even gave her a bouquet of flowers that she accepted with complacency. A Mediaset journalist asked him on behalf of Jorge Javier Vazquez to the Preysler if I would go to survivorsand she answered that “she would not put up with it” with total naturalness and even with sympathy, although entering the vehicle that was picking her up to leave the premises.
Married before she was 20 and pregnant with Julio Iglesias before going down the aisle… Those were other times!
Born in the Philippines, her father was a representative of Banco Español de Crédito in Manila and her mother, owner of a real estate company. After adolescence she was sent to Spain to continue her education and at one of those high society parties she met an attractive man who fell in love with her: Julio Iglesias. She was not 20 years old and the singer, seven more. She became pregnant and they got married on a rainy day in January 1971. They had time to have three children before breaking up seven years later due to the artist’s constant infidelities.
Fame entered Isabel’s life and she stayed to live with her and the singer’s children, Chabeli, Julio José and Enrique Iglesias. That is why we have all witnessed the most glorious moments of her existence, such as the birth of her children, and her other two marriages. First with the Marquis de Griñón, Tamara’s father, and after her second divorce, with Miguel Boyer, father of Ana Boyer. After the death of the former socialist minister, in 2014, whom his wife cared for with dedication and sacrifice during her long and painful illness, the bombshell of her romance with Mario Vargas Llosa. There are no unknown husbands or boyfriends for Isabel Preysler, who has known how to water her fame with proper names that, on the other hand, has filled her checking accounts. Maybe her next love is unknown though she says that she is fine as she is now.
Elizabeth has always been nicknamed the ‘queen of hearts’, but today she could be renamed as a pioneer, the mother or rather the grandmother of all influencers who now govern social networks and promote brands of clothing, jewelry or products beauty. She was ahead of technology, turning fame into a big business and monetizing her convening power, being the image of many firms that wanted to associate with Spain’s socialite par excellence. To round off her money factory, she has known how to endow her youngest daughters, especially Tamara Falcó, with the necessary virtues to inherit that ability to make cash with fame. Tamara Falcó is her natural heir. And she is doing well considering that she is capable of winning Masterchef, designing clothes, posing for any cover, be it from Hola the one of Harper’s, be content in the anthill, sponsor real estate agents or tiles and feed all the magazines and television programs with the fluctuations of her heart, and organize her wedding, after the troubles, with an attractive man with whom she is in love and who loves her. Her mother is very much to blame for all this, Elizabeth Preysler, whose inheritance, more powerful and valuable, than the title of marquise or the palace of El Rincón, Tamara has known how to take advantage of very well, no matter how different they are. Let’s not forget that at the age that Tamara’s ID now marks, 41 years old, her mother already had five children from three different husbands.
Isabel has managed to transmit to her heiress the magic necessary for her presence in the photo call make sparks fly and even the cameras cry with emotion, as happened a few hours ago in the Mercedes Fashion Week, when the Marchioness, supported by her future husband, presented her collaboration with Pedro del Hierro and raised more expectations than the President of the Government and his wife, who came this Friday to see the collection of Teresa Helbig.