The End
On my return to Madrid destiny made sure an old friend would cross my path: Ginés Rodríguez Fernández de Segura. We had met in Málaga twenty something years back, at a distant cousins’ wedding. Ginés...
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I took the decision to separate from my husband when, once recovered I returned to the palace and became aware of his infidelities. Despite everything and so as not to harm the inheritance rights of my...
View ArticleThe Life I Lived
The newspapers illustrators depicted my husband as a fat man weighed down with jewels. I thought that painting him so was quite reasonable, as he had always been stout, since childhood and the poor...
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Time passed and His Highness and I had become quite famous in Europe. Each time we arrived for a trip hoards of photographers were waiting at the ships dock for us and made the most intrusive...
View ArticleThe Maharani
And he returned. And we were married at the Mairie in Paris. Mr. E. Patry made a portrait of me in Paris in December of 1907. I was few months pregnant, waiting my son. My parents were delighted and...
View ArticleThe Maharajah
One morning we went to attend the march of personalities which were on their way to the Royal Palace. They were guests to the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, who was to be married on the 31st of...
View ArticleWho am I?
I have told of my infancy and childhood thousands of times; and I am certain those stories will be further repeated to remain on record… My name is Anita Delgado Briones and I am the Princess of...
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