Manual to (try to) understand the decisions of Isabel Presyler and her media love life

The breaking of Isabella Preysler y Mario Vargas Llosa has relaunched to socialite as influencer advertising. In recent years, the Filipina and the Peruvian were already a stable couple, without ups and downs and predictable. To such an extent that important firms preferred to adorn their image with their daughters Tamara Falco y Ana Boyer.

With the death of Elizabeth II of England, the writer’s girlfriend also lost her most international asset, since Porcelanosa will no longer be invited to the Palace of Buckhingham. The king Charles III, You cannot in any way be associated with advertising firms or receive donations from brands, even though the destination of the donations are the foundations that you started when you were Prince of Wales, a position that is now occupied by his son Guillermo, totally unrelated, by the way, to the Valencian ceramics firm.

But Elizabeth Preysler, who turns 72 winters in a month, returns to the present, as an object of desire for journalists and red carpets. Her first interview when she talks about the end of her romance with the Nobel Prize winner will be the highest-paid exclusive of 2023. And then, offers will rain down on her to open a store, a five-star hotel or a luxury cruise, or whatever she want.

The end of his story with the author of Pantaleon and the visitors It has been totally unexpected, although it must not have surprised the people who knew and lived in the Spanish society of the 80s and 90s. A politically exciting time, with a Spain that was assimilating modernity and Democracy, on the ashes of the UCD and the arrival to the government of Felipe Gonzalez.

And at the same time, within that theoretically progressive political class, there was an elite called the beautiful people, in which characters like Isabella Preysler.

To situate her at that time, we will remember that, in the Tejero coup, Isabel had just turned 30, it had been almost four years since she had divorced Julio Iglesias and she had already been married to Carlos Falcó. Tamara Falco He was born nine months after February 23, 1981, exactly on November 20, 1981.

The socialite filipina happens, of divorcing Julio Iglesias, a close artist, like herself until then (close to Carmen Martinez Bordiu)to the family Franco and the dictator’s regime, to make love to Carlos Falco, Marquis de Griñón, liberal aristocrat and monarchist, with whom she is consecrated as the queen of the social chronicle. From the new social chronicle.

Shortly after Tamara was born, Isabella Preysler meet Miguel Boyer, Minister of Economy of the socialist government, in a picturesque political forum of the time: the lunches organized by the Peruvian journalist Mona Jiménez, whose only dish was lentils, although the important thing was the attendees: the entire world of politics, finance, the journalism and society The crush between Boyer and the Marquise de Griñón was immediate, at least on Boyer’s part. Those were the times of the culture of the pitch. Felipe González had exchanged corduroy for elegant suits, bankers lost their fear of socialism, and getting rich was no longer a sin for progressives. Socialism was divided between warmongers y felipists, and Boyer spent the summer in Marbella with Presyler and Gunilla von Bismark, tanned and dressed in linen and silks.

“He drank my whiskey, smoked my cigars and took my wife”

Thanks to Isabel, the most powerful minister of Felipe González and his wife, Dr. Elena Arnedo, they began to hang out with the Marquises of Griñón on weekends at their Malpica estate. Years later, abandoned by Isabel, who finally left the aristocrat for Boyer, Carlos Falcó would comment bitterly in Tiempo magazine: “(Boyer) drank my whiskey, smoked my cigars and took my wife,” Tamara’s father stated.

Shortly after Isabel’s wedding in 1988 with the former minister, hired as a star executive in large companies, Isabel became reporter from Hola magazine and one of its characters was, in 1986, Mario Vargas Llosa, whom he met when he interviewed him at a university in the United States. It seems that there was a good understanding, sympathy, mutual attraction, and from then on, a close friendship between the Boyer couple and the Peruvian writer and his wife. Patricia Llosa.

But the latter, accustomed to her husband’s alleged infidelities, was suspicious of the good harmony between Preysler and the future Nobel Prize winner and commented on it, very annoyed, with people close to her. She was not the only one to suspect that the acclaimed Peruvian author and the wife of Miguel Boyer they could have a close relationship, even with secret and discreet appointments in Marbella, where both families spent the summer. The comments in the Madrid salons rose in tone to the point that it was said that Miguel Boyer’s admission, one night in a clinic in the capital, had been a suicide attempt due to the alleged infidelity of his wife. The news was soon proven to be false and the man of letters was no longer associated with Mrs. Boyer. Until, in 2015, a trip by Porcelanosa for a gala dinner with the Prince of Wales, publicly reunited the man who was already a Nobel Prize winner, with the widow of Miguel Boyer, deceased six months earlier.

That stay in London was the spark that ignited the flame of their reunion. A few weeks later, Isabel visited the writer’s suite, staying at the Eurobuilding Hotel in Madrid. Someone recognized them in the elevator and took a photo of them walking hand in hand down the sidewalk of the hotel. The remaining seven years of history are well known. Mario Vargas Llosa He said publicly at a gala: “I want to thank Isabel, her company, her presence, those wonderful years that she has allowed me to spend by her side and that have greatly renewed in me that vocation that I believe is the best thing that has given me past in life”. The ending has not been so happy, but they will always have a romance that made history.