History books change by leaps and bounds. Who knows if this is written by the losers, the winners, or both. There are always vested interests. However, the Law of Historical Memory is the one that rules and, for this reason, last Monday the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera were exhumed for the fifth time from the Cuelgamuros Valley -formerly known as the Valley of the Fallen- to San Isidro Cemetery. As the saying goes, genius and figure to the grave. His name already rubs shoulders with those of the Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Miguel Boyer, Concha Piquer and Pepita Tudó, the aristocrat who served as Goya’s model for both majas.

The co-founder of the Falange and son of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera is the flame that never goes out. No matter how many Lords of Oblivion arrive, he knows how to dodge the shadows. Or help you in this need. They even made him an actor and protagonist of a play. It premiered in Madrid in 2015. Álvaro Sáenz de Heredia (81) came up with the idea of ??directing, producing and writing the script for the musical My Red Princess in which Jesús Cisneros (61) got into the skin of this aristocrat with the most that resolved that one fine day he decided to put on a blue shirt, go down to the street and face the country’s problems, confessed in 1933 on the BBC: “The enemies of Spain are always the same, the political parties, the class struggle and separatisms”. For that prominence of the week, LOC contacted Sáenz de Heredia, who wrote through his WhatsApp: “Thank you very much for your interest in My Red Princess. I’m about to start another musical and I hardly have time to answer your call. It won’t be possible for me. Nothing more”.

To his credit he has more than 1,500 advertisements as an advertising creative in which he discovered the talents of Anabel Alonso (58) and Neus Asensi (57) and twenty funny films. Be careful, let’s not forget the blockbusters of the 90s!, like those of Tuesday and Thirteen with El robobo de la jojoya (1991), Chiquito de la Calzada with Here comes Condemor, the sinner of the prairie (1996) and, of course, those of her fetish actress converted into rabid news, Ana Obregón (68), whom she directed in Ana y los 7 (2002-2005), a project created by her that after being hidden in several drawers, TVE gave her the green light.

The director had always focused on comedy, until he decided to recover the figure of his relative. His father and José Antonio were first cousins. But going by the thread, Casilda Sáenz de Heredia, her grandfather’s sister, was married to Miguel the dictator. And if we keep pulling more strings, our protagonist is the nephew of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, director of the film Raza (1941) based on a story that Franco had written under the alias Jaime de Andrade and which achieved notoriety in the tabloids. having been the lover of Concha Velasco (83), to whom he gave an apartment in the Plaza de Colón in Madrid at the beginning of his career. With her he shot the mythical Historias de la televisión (1965).

In the intricacies of the heart, the Primo de Rivera had a character who used to swarm in ¡Hola!, Rosario, last couple and later widow of the quintessential facha symbol of the Spanish jet set such as Luis Miguel Dominguín. Despite her regrets, she was never a frivolous woman and she always practiced as a fervent Catholic.

Everything flows and nothing remains, except what memory chooses at its free will. My red princess was a praise to the mythologized figure of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who swarmed the stages along with minions of the likes of Lorca, Queipo de Llano and, of course, the Generalissimo. The play focused on his relationship with Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of English Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith.

In an interview with the radio program Una hora libertad, Álvaro commented that the main reason for this work was that “young people didn’t have much idea who they were and some didn’t know it at all. You can’t count in a dry way, but you have to use a vehicle that is easy to reach the target audience. I’m not giving up on mature people or the elderly, but I’m very interested in young people discovering this character.” He was shot in 1936. He was 33 years old.

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