Teresa de Borbón, grandmother of Teresa Urquijo, was awarded at the age of 88 for her long career in the horse world during a gala held in Madrid and organized by the Madrid Equestrian Federation For … recognize all athletes in the community.
During the moving event held at the Mutua Madrileña Auditorium, in addition to the Madrid riders who stood on the podium last year, there were a series of tributes to different personalities for his support of Madrid equestrian sport. One of them was SA R doña Teresa de Borbón y Borbón, the maternal grandmother of Teresa Urquijo, wife of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Everyone knows the important role that Teresa Urquijo has played over the years in the promotion and dissemination of equestrian sport. She owns the farm The song of the cross in the Madrid town of Colmenar Viejo, which she inherited from her father in 1964, and who has been riding horses since she was little. He has been breeding for decades world famous thoroughbred Arabian horses. Likewise, for years he held a famous eventing horse riding competition on the farm itself, including dressage, show jumping and cross-country events.
Daughter of Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón
Thérèse de Bourbon was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His father was Don Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón, Infanta of Spain and Duke of Calabria, and his mother, Doña Alicia, Princess of Parma. She married Íñigo Moreno de ArteagaMarquis de Laserna, in 1961 and together they had neither more nor less than seven children; Rodrigo, Alicia, Alfonso, Beatriz, Teresa Urquijo’s mother, Fernando, Clara and Delia.
The relationship between Teresa de Borbón and Teresa Urquijo has always been unbeatable and the wife of José Luis Martínez-Almeida has never hidden everything that admires her.
After the death of her father, Teresa Urquijo’s grandmother inherited the Flor de Lis stud farmone of the most prestigious thoroughbred Arabian horse farms in Spain, which his family had founded in 1941. The relationship between Teresa de Borbón and Teresa Urquijo has always been unbeatable and the wife of José Luis Martínez-Almeida has never hidden everything that admires her. Thus, Thérèse of Bourbon did not miss the opportunity to publicly express your joy and best wishes on your wedding day with the mayor of Madrid.
Teresa Urquijo collected her grandmother’s original wedding dress for herselfadapt the fabric and create your own wedding dressa press that the bride’s mother, Beatriz Moreno y Borbón, Teresa’s daughter, had also used in 1995 and which symbolized a family tradition passed down from generation to generation. In addition, Teresa de Borbón was seen supporting and accompanying Teresa Urquijo in very important moments for the wife of the mayor of Madrid, such as the arrival of her first child.