Word: infanta
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Virginia Woolf described Ottoline as "a Spanish galleon, hung with golden coins and lovely silken sails." Other writers, Darroch says, described her variously as "an oversized Infanta of Spain, an enormous bird, a lion-hunting hostess." In Those Barren Leaves, Aldous Huxley described those moments, just before retiring, when the Ottoline-like character would turn to her house guest and ask probing, intimate questions. "For on the threshold of her bed-chamber she would halt," he says, "desperately renewing the conversation with whichever of her guests happened to light her upstairs. Who knew? Perhaps in these last five minutes...
...father's bullring. Then her stark beauty sparks into a dazzling smile, she starts to laugh and becomes a kid on a spree. Normally, Carmen, the elder daughter of one of Spain's greatest matadors, Antonio Ordóñez, is as poised as an infanta. Descended on both sides from bullfighters, she is an elegant young woman with a simpler joie de vivre than her contemporaries in such racy cities as London and New York. She is happy minding her 15-month-old son or supporting her husband Francisco de Rivera, also a matador, when he puts...
...concert opened with "three short pieces to be played (without break) in the form of a suite." Moshell's intriguing idea of flanking Ravel's Pavane pour une infanta defunte by two works of Stravinsky (Scherzo a la Russe and Feu d'artifice) worked well. But there was a lack of crisp rhythmic and textural precision in the performance of the Stravinsky pieces (problems which were evident in most of the orchestra's playing); the "Fireworks" in particular included some ambiguous string playing and a weak transition back to the fast material. The Ravel Pavane, however, was well played...
...Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
...place to live at Estoril in 1946, Don Juan and his family roamed through Europe, as he puts it, "like the wandering Jew." The Reign in Spain. He is a handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older daughter, Infanta Pilar, 25, is now completing her nurse's training in Lisbon. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland, is Queen Victoria Eugenia, Alfonso XIII's English widow, 74, regal matriarch of the brood, and last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...