April 6, 2024
José Luis Martínez-Almeida y Navasqües married Teresa Urquijo y Moreno earlier today in Madrid at the Sagrado Corazon y San Francisco de Borja church. Mr. Martinez-Almeida is the mayor of Madrid.
The couple got engaged at Christmas but waited until January to officially announce their engagement.
The wedding guests included politicians, celebrities, and members of the Spanish and the Bourbon-Two-Sicilies royal families as the bride is the granddaughter of HRH Princess Teresa Maria Francisca Dorothea of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Salerno, and her husband, Don Iñigo Moreno y Arteaga, Marqués de Laserna. Teresa is the daughter of Beatriz Moreno y Borbon and Don Lucas Urquijo Fernández de Araoz.
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Teresa was born on October 8, 1996, in Madrid. For the last four and a half years, she has worked as a financial analyst at Merlin Properties, an international real estate investment company. She received a double degree in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas.
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Don José-Luis Martínez-Almeida was first elected as Madrid's Mayor in 2019. He received his law degree from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in 1998. He was born in Madrid on April 17, 1975.
A member of the People's Party, Don Luis has served on the Madrid City Council since 2015 and is also a State Lawyer.
It's only April and this wedding has been described as "Madrid's Glamorous Wedding of the Year.
Former King Juan Carlos I of Spain attended the wedding with his two daughters, Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo and Infanta Cristina, and three grandchildren, Froilan and Victoria Federica Marichalar y Borbón and Juan Valentin Urdangarín y Borbón.
Queen Sofia did not attend the service but joined her husband and family at the reception at the Finca El Canto de la Cruz, purchased in 1991 by the bride's grandparents, Princess Teresa and Don Iñigo. The reception was catered by the Madrid restaurant, Lhardy, favored by members of the Spanish royal family since Queen Isabel II.
More than 500 guests attended the wedding and then traveled 45 minutes to the reception.
The "high-necked, long-sleeved lace" silver lame wedding gown was first worn by Teresa's grandmother, Princess Teresa when she married Don Íñigo Moreno de Arteaga in 1961. Thirty-four years later, Beatriz Moreno y Borbon wore the gown at her wedding. The original gown was designed by "the legendary couturier Pedro Rodríguez", and altered twice, first by Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, and for Teresa's wedding, by Navascués, a wedding design firm owned by a relative of the groom.
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Don José-Luis's grandfather, Pablo Martínez-Almeida, was the late Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona's close advisor. His father, the late, Rafael Martínez-Almeida, also had a good relationship with the Count of Barcelona.
Princess Teresa and King Juan Carlos are second cousins through King Alfonso XII of Spain.
Alfonso XII - Alfonso XIII - Juan, Count of Barcelona - Juan Carlos
Alfonso XII - Maria de las Mercedes - Alfonso, Duke of Calabria - Teresa - Beatriz - Teresa
The former King and Princess Teresa have a half-first-cousin relationship through the late Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two-Sicilies, Infante of Spain, Duke of Calabria. He was married twice. His first wife was Maria de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, elder sister of King Alfonso XIII. After she died in childbirth, he married Princess Louise of Orléans.
Carlos, Duke of Calabria - Alfonso (Mercedes' son) - Princess Teresa
Carlos. Duke of Calabria - Mercedes (Louise's daughter) - King Juan Carlos
Thank you for the story and the lovely photographs! It is so wonderful that three generations of brides have been able to wear the same wedding dress, albeit with some modifications. It looked like it was a very happy occasion.
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Andrea
You forget Felipe.
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He is related to, is he?
Andrea
I didn’t forget Felipe, because he was not a guest at the wedding. If his father is related, please assume king Felipe is related as well. Element
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