Angela
posts on 6/8/2011 9:37:18 PM
Oooh, that's a good one, Edgar! I would love to know what became of Casilda. I hope she married a nice man and didn't regret losing Luis.
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Edgar
posts on 6/6/2011 8:58:29 PM
I would love to know who Casilda was? The girl that Luis broke off the engagement with to marry Aline!!!!
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Angela
posts on 6/6/2011 7:57:48 PM
Good question, Sarah. I think we would all like to know that answer. Since we're on the who is who line of thinking, do you wonder who Pierre is? I would die to know!
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Sarah
posts on 6/1/2011 2:13:43 AM
Wow Anita, that would be great, thanks so much.
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Anita
posts on 5/31/2011 8:25:00 PM
Sarah, if you give me a few days, I have the actual name of the family you are referring to, but need to locate my paperwork. Very prominent Moroccan family. Just hope I find it.
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Sarah
posts on 5/31/2011 6:21:55 PM
Countess' secretary wrote to me as I was finishing my thesis (about the OSS). Finding those letters prompted me to re-read all of the books.
I just finished Spy Wore Silk and I have always wondered -- who are Salima and Fatima...? I know she tried to disguise them, and I've tried a little sleuthing but haven't really come up with anything. Does anyone know?
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Anita
posts on 5/17/2011 1:04:48 PM
Roseanne H.,knows more about the family than any of us, I do believe, as she has had the most contact with the Countess, and can certainly read the Spanish as she is fluent. Unfortunately,my reading the language isn't that good and I, too, am kicking myself for not studying better,when I was living in Spain. I was in my 3rd year of Spanish then, but have forgotten so much.
Angela, the photo you refer to of the boys with their father, is wonderful. They were so young, but handsome. They are really handsome men today.
I think the Countess is doing well,and I hope she will be with us longer because at this age anything can happen. Ceertainly hope that longevity runs in the Griffith family!
Roseanne, I will do that search and hopefully can filter through and read a bit of it. Thanks for sharing.
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Angela
posts on 5/16/2011 9:30:27 PM
Thanks, Anita, for sharing your knowledge of espionage. You have sifted through way more info. than I probably ever will in my life, so I trust your take on the Countesses books. Oh Roseanne, if only I could read Spanish! I'm missing out on so much. Every time I come across an article in Spanish, I kick myself for not studying harder to learn the language. I loved the picture of the Countesses sons in Marbella from Vogue that Edgar mentioned. My favorite picture of them is in the Pascualete book where they are young and posing with their father, looking so handsome.
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Roseanne H
posts on 5/16/2011 8:59:03 PM
If anyone is so inclined, and if you can read Spanish, type in La Condesa Viuda de Romanones in the search bar and read some of the interesting articles about the Countess and her sons. It seems that two of them are divorced, so I suppose that the wedding Anita refers to is a second marriage for one of them. Also, with respect to the fallout between the Countess and her eldest son Alvaro, he had sued her wanting a fair share of the family estate for himself and his brothers, after the passing of his father in 1987. According to Spanish law, the widow or widower would receive one half of the estate of the spouse, and the children would share in the other half. Alvaro had accused his mother of hiding various works of art, Goya, Velazquez, etc., and of not being truthful about her properties, including the apartment in New York. Apparently, however, the two have long since reconciled.
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Anita
posts on 5/16/2011 8:44:04 PM
Edgar, absolutely not...no way we would think such a thing. I appreciate your input and "your take" on events in her books.
Let me share an example with you and Angela and the other readers. I read so much espionage about WWII that even some of the authors that were in OSS and also some that were there as Resistance members, get their wires crossed on dates, time , places, and people. I have read many times where two resistence people or OSS members working on the same projects, have a different take and memory of just how something happened.
Edgar I will do a bit of research and see what I can find about the Wedding of Aline's son, in Austria. IT sounds like you have it figured out.
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