To get married in Seville, so much so that it is necessary to make the Married in the Cathedral, but not in the Main Chapel.Ĭhapel or Chapel of the Virgin of the Kings is one of the most demanded places Is that other “normal” or “plebeian” couples can also get It was Cardinal Carlos Amigo who celebrated the wedding. However, she never lost her ties with the city of Seville. Here she lived all her youth until the proclamation of the Republic in 1931 forced her to go into exile in France. The Infanta Elena was the one who decided to marry in Seville to fulfill a promise made to her paternal grandmother Doña María de las Mercedes who although she was born in Madrid moved to live in Seville when she was a child. It took place on a hot day, in March 1995. Probably the most remembered of the weddings that have taken place in the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville was the one of the firstborn of Don Juan Carlos, the Infanta Elena with Don Jaime de Marichalar y Sáenz de Tejada. Matilde Solís-Beaumont, daughter of the Marqueses de la Motilla and 15 years Don Carlos Fizt-James Stuartįirst-born son of the Duchess of Alba, Don Carlos Fizt-James Sturat married The cost of the wedding was 20 million pesetas of the time, a real fortune and was described by the international press as “the most expensive wedding in the world”. In fact, two of her three weddings were celebrated in Seville. When in September 1953, her father died, she became the XVIII Duchess of Alba.įather’s power that overcame the refusal of the famous Cardinal Segura to allowĬayetana always adored the city of Seville and had the whim to get married
Irujo in the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville.
The then Duchess of Montoro Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart married Luis Martínez de María del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart María de la Esperanza Borbón-Dos Siciliasĭoña María de la Esperanza Borbón-Dos Sicilias, sister of Doña María de las Mercedes, the mother of King Juan Carlos, married Don Pedro de Orleans Braganza, the Imperial Prince of Brazil in 1944. Even today the tradition is maintained that only members of the Royal House or the Greats of Spain can get married in this Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville and always with the previous authorization of the Archbishop of Seville.įour weddings celebrated in front of the majestic High Altar of this Chapel In 2018, Doña Matilde Solís wore the Sapphire Tiara as a necklace for the wedding of her eldest son, the Duke of Huéscar, to Sofia Palazuelo, echoing her mother’s choice from 30 years before.The Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville is famous for its Royal Weddings. Information kindly shared by Marchioness was photographed wearing it as necklace on several occasions, most notably when her daughter, Doña Matilde Solís-Beaumont, married the heir to the Dukedom of Alba in a lavish ceremony in Seville on this day in 1988, which was her 25th Birthday.ĭoña Isabel also loaned the Sapphire Tiara to some of her female descendants and newcomers into the family for their respective wedding ceremonies, namely some of her daughters, granddaughters and daughter-in-law, though most family brides wear a Diamond Tiara also in the family collection. The Motilla family is very partial to this Hermandad, which is located side by side with the family’s palace.
A post shared by Sevilla-stereoscópica a devout Catholic, in accordance with the secular Sevillean tradition of borrowing jewels to the images of the Virgin Mary, so they can be admired and worshipped as “rightful Queens of Heaven”, the Marchioness allowed it to be worn by the image of the Virgen de la Merced several times, both as a tiara and necklace.
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