Spanish nobility & aristocracy

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Hilda de Armada y Falcó countess of Güemes

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The marchioness of Saltillo

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Bernardo Cólogan y Cólogan

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He was the Spanish Ambassador to China and the Dean of Diplomatic Corps during the Boxer Rebellion.

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He had a good relationship with the Chinese empress and had access to the Forbidden City, something others ambassadors, like the British or American, didn´t. 

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After the rebellion he drew up the treaty between China and the Western Powers, which was signed by the empress and the foreign ambassadors in the Spanish Embassy.

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Bernardo Cologan, sitting in the center, and the other western ambassadors in the Spanish Embassy of Beijing.

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Isabel Preysler is a Spanish socialité of Filipino background. Born in Manila, her father Carlos Preysler y Pérez de Tagle belonged to a Filipino cadet branch of the Spanish marquises of Altamira. She became famous thanks to her marriage with singer Julio Iglesias. They had three children, including singer Enrique Iglesias. They divorced and she married secondly Carlos Falcó, marquis of Griñón. One daughter called Tamara Falcó. Divorced again and married a third time to Miguel Boyer, a former Spanish finance minister. They had a daughter called Ana Boyer. 

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Her husband Miguel Boyer died a couple of years ago and she is now dating Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian writer who was the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature and was created a marquis by King Juan Carlos of Spain.

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Isabel Preysler and her partner Mario Vargas Llosa

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Son Enrique Iglesias with partner, Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova

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Daughter Tamara Falcó

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Daughter Ana Boyer