It is said that from a wedding there always comes another wedding, but on this occasion what seems to have emerged is an unexpected romance between the daughter of Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin and the little brother of José Luis Martínez Almeida's wife. This Wednesday, the gossip magazine Hello! revealed in its new issue that Irene Urdangarin was in a relationship with Juan Urquijo.
According to the aforementioned media, the couple met last summer thanks to Victoria Federica de Marichalar, who would have been in charge of making the introductions. But even though it was quite a crush, Irene and Juan started out as friends, and some time later they decided to formalize the relationship.
The news of the relationship has filled both families with joy and happiness, since their union is much stronger than it seems. And both are direct descendants of Alfonso XII. Her maternal grandparents, Don Juan Carlos and Teresa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, are first cousins, so Infanta Cristina's daughter and Teresa Urquijo's brother are third cousins.
It has also been confirmed that the couple maintains a long-distance relationship because Irene Urdangarin lives in Cambodia, where she has been volunteering since last February. For his part, Juan Urquijo is residing in Madrid after completing his studies as an agricultural engineer in the United Kingdom. For this reason, Iñaki Urdangarin's daughter was one of the big absentees at the wedding of Teresa Urquijo and José Luis Martínez-Almeida, which took place on April 6 in Madrid.
Juan Urquijo Moreno was born in January 1999 and is currently 25 years old, seven older than Irene Urdangarin. He is the youngest son of Beatriz Moreno de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, daughter of Íñigo Moreno de Arteaga, Marquis of Laserna, and Princess Teresa of Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Borbón-Parma. His father is the businessman Lucas Urquijo Fernández de Araoz, an economist graduated from Georgetown University, United States. He was communications director at Roche Farma and currently works at El Corte Inglés.
The first love of Infanta Cristina's daughter studied at an exclusive school in La Moraleja. Subsequently, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she has been pursuing a degree in agricultural engineering at the Royal Agricultural University, the first agricultural university in the English-speaking world, located in the county of Gloucestershire. There she specialized in Agribusiness and Hunting Management.
He knows how to speak English and French fluently, and he is very passionate about horse riding, music and volunteering, something he shares with the Urdangarins' little girl. In 2016 he traveled to the Philippines to collaborate in agricultural tasks related to families at risk of exclusion and in 2018, he worked in the company Viveros California, one of the most important strawberry and raspberry plant nurseries in Europe, located in Valladolid. .
