To talk about Isabel Preysler is to make it one of the most powerful characters of the last few decades in the pink press. An honor she's been building herself over the years. From her sonorous love of youth to being the matriarch of one of the most powerful and known families in both Spain and the Philippines. Despite that, socialité has always tried to keep her private life at bay, not always successfully.
Whenever one thinks of it, the image of a faithful representative of the jet set, an aspirational and high standing woman, comes to mind. But like any human being who lends himself, the coin has not always been expensive and life has turned its back on it on several occasions. The last, with the death of her mother, Beatriz Arrastia, at the age of 98. Sadly, it wasn't the only sledgehammer.
Isabel Preysler knows what it's like to belong to high society from the cradle. His parents, Carlos Preysler and Beatriz Arrastia, were two of the most important people in the Philippines. He performed management duties at Philippines Air lines and acted as a delegate of the Banco Español de Crédito in Manila; she focused her career on the real estate business and on taking care of her children.
But misfortunes do not understand bloodlines and the family had to attend an unusual one of such forcefulness. Enrique, known among his own as Ricky', died at the age of 25. He was found lifeless in a hotel in Hong Kong. At first it was speculated that he could have died from the effect of drugs, but then it was proved that the fault was the carbon monoxide that he inhaled from a stove because of a technical failure.
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That event blackened the reality of the family, which should still regret another such event. Isabel Preysler lost her brother Carlos, this time, a victim of toxic substances: "my brother was hooked on drugs. Some soulless people sold drugs at school doors, "Preysler herself told 'Vanitatis'. At only 16 years old, they saw that he was hooked, but his addiction was unstoppable.
Far from the neatness and perfection that has surrounded his sister, Carlos was far more dismal than Isabel and was in Manila prison serving a five-year sentence for fraud. However, the main cause of death was a tumor in the liver for which he was given three months of life. Isabel Preysler still had another sister to lose: Beatriz, who was diagnosed with lung cancer that she could not overcome at the age of 53.
The shadow of death knocked on the family door again, this time to snatch Isabel Preysler from her husband. Miguel Boyer died on September 29, 2014 at the age of 75, after suffering from a pulmonary embolism. In 2012 he had had a cerebral hemorrhage from which he recovers without difficulty. It was quite a jar of cold water for the Filipino, who has now had to bury her mother.
