This weekend also had the birthday of a really important person in Queen Letizia's life. It is nothing more nor less than her sister, Telma Ortiz. Felipe VI's sister-in-law turned 50 and celebrated it at a party at her home, which was attended by her closest friends, such as, for example, her mother, Paloma Rocasolano, who attended with the couple. her, Marcus Brandler. The man has proven to be fully integrated into the family, but many still wonder who he is.
It was a few months ago when we first heard about Marcus Brandler. This Briton, born in Nigeria, starred on the covers of magazines after it came to light that he was the boyfriend of Paloma, Queen Letizia's mother. Since then, the couple has been consolidating, and has increasingly appeared in more public events. In fact, he was in charge of organizing Paloma's 70th birthday, which her entire family attended. In the last few hours, he has also attended that of Telma, younger sister of Felipe VI's wife.
Son of J.L. Brandler and Pamela Margaret, Marcus has four siblings: David, Andrew, Penelope and Robert. Two of the brothers, specifically Marcus himself and David, were born in African lands. The Briton was born in 1957 in Ibadan, a city 127 kilometers from Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria. He went under the name Marcus Tokuaboh Brandler. This is the new addition to the family, after meeting Robert Gavin Bonnar, Telma Ortiz's partner.
Brandler is a businessman, and his business, Tillbrook Products, is, as official British records indicate, in the trade of tea, coffee, cocoa and spices. Semana magazine revealed a few months ago that Marcus "arrived in Spain about five years ago, first stopping in Barcelona. He then moved to Madrid, where he works as director of a company dedicated to the wholesale sale of coffee, tea, cocoa and other spices. Marcus is a business expert and often deals with other companies in Asia, having had several companies dedicated to import and export."
The truth is that Marcus has been between the United Kingdom and Spain for years. The truth is that in 1991 he married a Catalan woman in Banyoles (Girona), with whom he had three children, Maximilian, Joachim and Benjamin. Marcus, like the rest of his family, suffered a hard blow in 2019. On June 21 of that year, Robert Guy Mobolaji Brandler, the youngest of the five brothers, died in Kano (Nigeria) after a brief but serious illness. At 53 years old, he left all his brothers completely devastated, and also his children.
As we said, Marcus is fully integrated into his partner's family. And the man was seen receiving some of the guests at Telma's birthday celebration this Saturday. In fact, he was very affectionate with the attendees, and even, as Europa Press reports, he threw a couple of kisses in the air when one of the cars entered. After the celebration, Marcus himself spoke to the media. "Nothing to say," he said then, in perfect English. "Thank you," he expressed, when asked about Telma's birthday and about Princess Leonor. Without a doubt, he is one of the family.
