She is 27 years old, is of aristocratic descent and this Saturday she will become the ‘first lady’ of the Madrid council. Teresa Urquijo will say “yes, I want” to José Luis Martínez Almeida in which it will be the first wedding of an acting mayor and will bring together more than 500 guests, among whom the emeritus Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía, the Infantas Elena and Cristina, the president of the Community, Díaz Ayuso, or the businessman Florentino Pérez.
Teresa is daughter of Lucas Urquijo Fernández de Araozformer communications director of Roche Farma, and granddaughter of Jaime Urquijo y Chacón, knight of the Sacred and Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, former president of Energy and Aragonese Industries and vice president of Tabacalera. His mother, Carmen Fernández de Araoz Marañónwas the granddaughter of the doctor and scientist Gregorio Marañón and daughter of Íñigo Moreno de Arteaga, Marquis of Laserna, and Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma, cousin of King Juan Carlos (her mother was Infanta of Spain) and sister of Charles of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, and Agnes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Syracuse.
Born in Madrid in 1996, Teresa works as a real estate investment analyst at Merlin Properties and has a double degree in Law and Business Administration. She surrounds herself with a group of very faithful friends, among whom stands out Luisa Bergeldaughter of investor Jaime Bergel (co-founder of the private investment group Gala Capital and who is also the owner of Jimmy Choo and partner of Scalpers) or Pino López-Herrera, currently a senior analyst at the company CBRE and who has shared with Urquijo volunteering as a nurse at the Virgin of Lourdes. The friendship between Teresa and Gabriela de Cabanyes Aguirredaughter of the Marquis of Loreto and Natividad Aguirre and family of the former president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre.
Teresa’s brother Juan Urquijo, made headlines long before she became the star of the wedding of the year. It was in 2017, when Victoria Federica de Marichalar, who has confirmed her attendance at her wedding, celebrated her coming of age. Juan and Vic are distant cousins, although they maintain a close friendship, which is why he gave the influencer a Vietnamese pig, since a few years ago she set up a farm with these animals. The niece of King Felipe VI had a sense of humor at that time and gave the sparrow the monarch’s name: Rodrigo I of Spain.
Teresa is very familiar and discreet, a lover of the countryside and an expert horsewoman who spent long periods on her maternal grandmother’s farm, where the Flor de Lis stud, one of the most famous circuits. Precisely here, in El Canto de la Cruz, he will celebrate his wedding with Almeida, whom he met at the Flecha contemporary art fair and with whom he began his relationship at the beginning of 2023. They kept it a secret until June of that same year, when They appeared together at the Las Ventas bullring, thus making their courtship official. The 22 years of difference between them have not been an impediment to carrying out a relationship that culminates this Saturday with a wedding in style: “Once they asked me about sentimental questions. I answered that neither rush nor resign, it is obvious that I have not rushed but I was almost resigned. Until she appeared. And Teresa told me yes”the mayor happily announced on January 5.
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