Doña María Isabel „Belina“ Josefina Teodora Magdalena González de Olañeta y Ibarreta wurde am 22. April 1895 in Madrid geboren und war das einzige Kind von Don Ulpiano González de Olañeta y González de Ocampo (1847-1928), II. Marqués de Valdeterrazo und Doña Isabel Eugenia de Ibarretea y Uhagon (1856-1930), die 1891 heiratete. In Spanien und insbesondere in Madrid war Isabel als „Belina Valdeterrazo“ bekannt.
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| Antonio González und González. |
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| Die Hochzeit von Ferdinand und Belina, 1921. |
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| Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Montpensier in Paris, 1922. Foto (c) Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet / Granger. |
Am 20. August 1921 heiratete Doña Isabel „Belina“ González de Olañeta y Ibarreta, Vizcondesa de los Antrines, in Randan Prinz Ferdinand d'Orléans, Herzog von Montpensier. Der Herzog von Montpensier war das jüngste Kind von Prinz Philippe d'Orléans, Graf von Paris, und der Infantin Maria Isabel von Spanien. An ihrer Hochzeit war die Familie Ferdinands stark beteiligt, insbesondere seine Schwestern: Königin Marie Amélie von Portugal, Prinzessin Hélène, Herzogin von Aosta, und Prinzessin Isabelle, Herzogin von Guise, mit ihrem Ehemann (und Cousin ersten Grades) Prinz Jean, Herzog von Guise, und ihren Kindern Prinz Henri und den Prinzessinnen Isabelle, Françoise und Anne. Belinas Eltern waren ebenfalls bei der Hochzeit ihres einzigen Kindes anwesend. Kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit isolierte Belina Ferdinand offenbar von seiner Familie.
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| Prinz Ferdinand. |
Slightly after more than two years of marriage, the Duchess of Montpensier was left a widow. Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier, died at the age of thirty-nine at the Château de Randan on 30 January 1924. The cause of his passing was a drug overdose. The duke had long struggled with substance abuse. It has been alleged by some that Belina knew of his drug issue and that she weaponised this to her advantage. The Duchess of Montpensier is believed, by some family members of the duke, to have withheld drugs from her husband until Ferdinand made a will leaving his fortune to her. Ferdinand’s previous heir had been his brother, the Duke d’Orléans and Head of the Royal House of France at the time. Whether or not this is true, upon the Duke of Montpensier’s death, it was discovered that he had left all of his worldly possessions, including the Château de Randan, to Belina. Prince Ferdinand was buried at Dreux.
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| The ruins of Randan. |
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| José María de Huarte. |
On 12 October 1948 at Vitoria, the Dowager Duchess of Montpensier secretly married José María de Huarte y Jáuregui (1898-1969). In 1949, the duchess changed her will and left half of the inheritance she had received from the Duke of Montpensier to her second husband, Huarte, and the other half to one Socorro Uhagon y Mazas; three executors were named: José María de Huarte y Jáuregui, his brother Angel de Huarte y Jáuregui and the Marqués de Goicorrotea.
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| Belina in 1952, Madrid. |
Doña Isabel González de Olañeta y Ibarreta, III Marquésa de Valdeterrazo, died of a heart attack on 11 July 1958 at her home in Madrid. She was sixty-three years-old. Prince Michael of Greece recalls being with his grandmother the Duchess of Guise (who had been Belina’s sister-in-law) when the duchess received news of Belina’s death. The Duchess of Guise quipped: “Well, Bellina has died due to her heart. I did not know she had one.”