The serenity of a marquis against cancer

Fernando Martínez de Irujo, lives all the experiences that life marks, such as what it is: a marquis in all its essence. Thus, in this way, he wades the setbacks that are put ahead and raffles them with mastery and optimism. After spending a vacation in Marbella, in one of the most aristocratic places in the city: the Marbella Club hotel is already in Madrid. We saw this summer in the town of Malaga with a different aspect than us that has us usually accustomed us. And he himself verbalized his illness to the most intimate in Marbella. This week he has taken a step forward and has made public the cancer that afflicts him and how He faces it with serenity and optimism. The disease has never hidden it, since he knew of his ailment for months, according to La Razón one of the best friends of the Marquis of San Vicente del Barco, at the dinner he maintained this summer in the patio with the aristocrat: «I was so lively that the treatment was working that, even, he was preparing with me a great party that he wants to give the summer that comes in the Ana María farm. Fernando is great and combative and very capable of continuing with this fight against cancer with the discipline that characterizes him ».

Wedding Witness

One of the things that, in these difficult times, is enjoying the son of the Duchess of Alba, is the Preparation of his brother Cayetano with Barbara Mirjan, on October 4,in the church of the Christ of the Gypsies in Seville, where the ashes of the Duchess Cayetana de Alba rest. Many are wondering if Fernando will go to the wedding, and this newspaper has exclusively known by the mouth of the same boyfriend as yes. «My brother will be with us on this special day as a witness. We are very happy to have him among us and with a family», Explains Cayetano. The link will bring together the children of Cayetana de Alba, as well as as many personalities of the social chronicle. Amina, the twin daughter of the former rider will be the godmother of this second wedding, since the first was the one she had with Genoveva Casanova, in 2005. Fernando in this way will live in the first person, and next to her brother, this special day. He is the only one in the family who has never married. However, he maintains a very good relationship with his brothers, who have had their more and their least and have always worked as a link.

This holiday has had them, as most years, between Sotogrande and Marbella. For the noble, “Marbella Club” is like his second home, since he rented “Las Cañas.” To the marquis He loves music and distracted everything that can with hobbies of this type. There we have seen him practice as a pricking apprentice, in “El Patio” clicking next to the Dj Lola, the woman of Quique Super Mix, an excellent friend of the aristocrat, who teaches her how to move the vinyl. Fernando this year, he has opted for discretion and has not been seen by the Starlite Festival, like other years where he always liked to eat a ham sandwich in the box before the concert. He always told us: “Do you want a little?” Always sympathetic and blissful, although in the face of abroad it seems that it is the most delayed personality of the dawn. His environment defines him as a very fun and conciliatory man, who has always shown in the constant family conflicts. Different romances have been attributed to him, but none has set. He is the only one in the entire Alba clan that has not gone through the altar nor has he had offspring. His super girl is always Tana, the most complicit niece of the Marquis, with whom she likes to share many moments, such as her usual meals in Marbella Trocadero, in front of the house that she went from her mother and now corresponds to her by inheritance.

Among treatments, music and future plans, Marqués demonstrates that elegance is also measured in the way of facing adversity.

«Las Cañas», the favorite house of Cayetana de Alba

Located on the beach and with some sunsets that the Duchess of Alba was never lost, it was her favorite house. Since he acquired it in 1963 he was his refuge. She always fled that Marbella of sound surnames and figures that opened their homes, cut by the same pattern, to the residual neighbors of the extinct “Beautiful People”. The imposted behaviors were not theirs and that is why he preferred to build this redoubt of silence, at the foot of the Mediterranean, which came as a ring to the finger for his son Fernando. And she knew. This summer it was rumored that the farm had been sold but the reason has proven in situ that remains rented to the usual tenants.