According to Wikipedia, Isabel Preysler He was born in the Philippines in 1951, but I maintain the theory that it is very possible that he has an Egyptian ancestral touch, a whiff of a pharaonic dynasty. After watching the teledocumentary that Disney+ has just dedicated to him (‘My Christmas’), this theory intensifies.
At one point he realizes that Jean-Louis Mathieuthe most skillful and exquisite public relations in Spain in the second half of the last century, once told him: «Isabel, you will always be successful because you have mystery». Indeed. We have seen her move around her Puerta de Hierro mansion with that hieraticism of ancient Egyptian engravings. She moves her hands, but her body moves smoothly in one dimension. This is what Egyptologists call ‘frontality’.
Televisionly, it allows shots that, even though they are in motion, seem immersed in a surprising quietism. Precisely when they praised her great experience in front of the cameras, a lifetime of posing, he pointed out: «Photos, especially photos». That is, the stopped moment. In these two chapters that Disney+ dedicates to him, he shows us how he takes care of the Christmas preparations, how he instructs his service employees. Crockery, cutlery, glassware, table linens, floral arrangement, all in exquisite order. And your daily routine. Gymnastics next to the indoor pool, visit to the beauty center, and above all breakfast: grapefruit, kiwi, Jamaican water, lime with warm water, and an assortment of seeds. Seek what we said before: that because of your delicate body, time does not pass and remain stopped.
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When he showed us another of his routines, meetings with good friends to watch movies, we saw that his video library included ‘Sinuhé the Egyptian’, played by the dedicated actor Edmund Purdom. Ah! Purdom This film shows how the pharaohs achieved the most absolute perfection in the art of embalming and mummification. Of the three husbands she has had, she has only talked about Miguel Boyer. With love. Of Julio Iglesias and of Carlos Falco, not a peep. Despite the notable library that Boyer left in this mansion, we have not seen her pick up a book.
In ‘Better Late’ he just said Carmen Lomana, another exquisite from the splín of Madrid, who, watching this series, fell asleep. He hasn’t understood it. It is an archaeological document. It is a lifestyle that practically no longer exists.