Matilde Solís, ex-wife of the Duke of Alba, notably absent at the funeral of her second husband

No one has been surprised Matilde Solis and Martinez Camposwho was the first and so far only wife of the current Duke of Alba, was not present this past Thursday, in the Seville church of Jesús del Gran Poder, where the funeral was held for her second husband. Borja Moreno Santamaria He died days ago of a sudden heart attack.with little more than 50 years.

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The one who could be Duchess of Alba for her wedding with Carlos Fitz-James Stuart and the mother of her two children did not want to accompany her son Borja, born from his mother’s second marriage, to church. Instead, she was there, receiving the condolences of all those present, Rocio Medinathe last partner of the deceased, a man little known socially, but who lived through a controversial and complicated separation from Matilde Solís, with mutual complaints, a restraining order due to a judge’s ruling but apparently a good father to his only son, who has just died. come of age.

If the personality of this Sevillian, eight years younger than Matilde, dedicated to the fields as an employee of the Natea Soluciones Agrícolas company, has been dotted with conflictive episodes with his ex-wife, no less striking have been the moments starring Matilde Solís since she left made publicly visible, as the fiancée of the eldest son of the Duchess of Alba. That wedding, held in Seville, in June 1988, was the social event of the year.

The bride, daughter of the Marquises of La Motilla, had a reputation as an independent girl and a certain rebellion, taking into account that her mother was a member of Opus Dei and had received a very strict upbringing. The Solís family resided in the imposing palace on Cuna street and their fortune was comparable to or greater than that of the Alba family. His older brother, Miguel Solís, was separated from Carmen Tello, who had abandoned him for the bullfighter Curro Romero, but in general they were discreet people who did not appear in gossip magazines.

The then Dukes of Huéscar settled in Liria together with Cayetana, married at that time to Jesús Aguirre, but for the young duchess the palace turned out to be a golden prison. She convinced her husband to move into a house of his own, in the Somosaguas urbanization, but, despite the birth of their two sons, Fernando and Carlos, the marriage was a stone for the Sevillian aristocrat, who suffered from depression and mental illnesses that led to a shot from a shotgun, wielded by herself, that almost cost her her life.

Once separated from who she was, as the eldest son of Cayetana, future Duke of Alba, Matilde began to treat herself with Dr. Javier Criado, the Sevillian psychiatrist who treated almost all the well-to-do women in the city. Over the years, Matilde Solís and other women They denounced the doctor for malpractice and abuse of one of his patients. It was the new occasion in which the discreet aristocrat returned to the front pages of the press.

Before, he had challenged the conservative Sevillian society, maintaining relationships with Borja Moreno, a young man from the middle class, employed on a farm to attend to farm tasks.

Their wedding took place in 2003, with Matilde six months pregnant and without any member of her family present. The marriage only lasted five years, in which Borja Moreno lamented the complicated character of his wife. In turn, Matilde complained in private about unacceptable treatment, especially when, once separated, her ex-husband broke the restraining order, because, according to what she said, she prevented him from seeing her son.

The waters had calmed in recent years. Borja Moreno had remade his life with Rocío Medina, he had a fluid relationship with her son and Matilde looked like a splendid godmother in the Liria palace at the recent weddings of her sons Fernando and Carlos.

But this peace achieved was not enough for her to attend the funeral for the man who wanted to rescue her from her fears and depressions and who ended up taking her to court.