Moving from Tetuán to Chamberí

In the life of José Luis Martínez-Almeida There have been several surprises. That he arrived at the City Hall of Madrid was one of them. Get married Teresa Urquijo It was another. But now they announce that they will be parents is something that, in a way, could already be foreseen. There is always a time when life begins to take a definitive course, to structure with the logic of the things that happen because they have to happen.

The story of Teresa Urquijo and José Luis Martínez-Almeida is nothing more than the confirmation of something that was always written: life continues its course, the destiny of each one is fulfilled with an inevitable logic: a pregnancy advertisement or a change from the very elegant Madrid (and expensive) Barrio de Chamberí.

The move have been announced in their social networks, as is done now with the transcendental events, with the naturalness of who drops a news without giving him too much solemnity. “We will be three in the family,” they have said. And with that it has been enough for the headlines to take care of the rest. The arrival of a child changes many things. Among them, the house in which one lives. Marriage has decided to move. Gone will be the floor where Almeida has taken her singleness with discretion and where they have lived from the wedding. Now they look for something bigger in Chamberí, a neighborhood where the facades speak of another time, where there are still coffees with golden moldings and libraries with aged wood windows. In that area, surrounded by families of compound surname and family faces of Madrid politics, you will find their new refuge.

Chamberí is a neighborhood of quiet walks and conversations on the terraces that never end, From parks with swings where children learn to move in the shadows of centenary trees. It will be there where this new stage begins, in a house that may have enough silence for the first nights in candle and the warmth that requires the arrival of a new member to the family. Teresa Urquijo belongs to that lineage that does not need a presentation. The lineage reads in the names and breathes in education. Your grandmother, Teresa de Bourbon two sicilias, It is the cousin of King Juan Carlos I, And his family has always managed to stay in that balance between tradition and the present, between the aristocracy that preserves his last names and the modernity that requires having a university degree and a good job. Teresa studied Law and Ide in ICADE, went through the Philippines, the United Kingdom and Mexico, and for a few years she has been working on Merlin Properties, One of those companies where the minimum salary is more than enough for a life vent. He has done his own path, although fate has always been favorable. He does not need inheritance, but he knows that he is there, like a network that never tense because it is not necessary.

The mayor who found his refuge

For Almeida, which is 50 this spring, Teresa, who is 28 years old, is everything. He said so in an interview. “When I see Teresa is tranquility. It’s my refuge in life.” And it is not difficult to imagine it. For a man who has made politics his territory and irony his breastplate, finding certainty amid the vertigo of debates and dispatch tensions must be a relief. His has been a life of speeches and numbers, plenary and endless meetings. But at some point a door opens, a look crosses and everything else loses a bit of importance. That, in short, is what it means to build a house in common, move to a new neighborhood, prepare the arrival of a child. Find a place where you can be without explaining everything. The baby will be born in a family where nothing has ever missed. His mother has an illustrious surname and a brilliant career; His father has reached power without losing his smile. It will have a luminous room in a spacious house, in a neighborhood where the streets are wide and the old trees.