Isabel Patiño y de Borbón

1935 - 1954  (18 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Isabel Patiño y de Borbón
  Birth	3 Jun 1935	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 May 1954	Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Duquesa Albina Christina Laetitia Patiño y de Borbón,   b. 2 Aug 1932, Paris, Île-de-France, France ▻ Prince Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie de Beauvau,  m. 9 Dec 1952 ;   Ernst Schneider,  m. 1959 ;   Christo Kurteff + 2. Isabel Patiño y de Borbón,   b. 3 Jun 1935, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. 15 May 1954, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France  (Age 18 years) ▻ James Michael Goldschmidt,  m. 7 Jan 1954
  Person ID	I251827	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2006

  
  

  Father	Antenor Patiño y Rodriguez,   b. 12 Oct 1894, Oruro, Bolivia d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Duquesa Maria Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús,   b. 15 May 1913, Madrid, España d. 28 Jul 2002 (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1931	Madrid, España
  Divorce	10 Dec 1959
  Family ID	F101943	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James Michael Goldschmidt,   b. 26 Feb 1933, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. 19 Jul 1997, España (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	7 Jan 1954	Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Isabel Marcelle Christine Goldsmith,   b. 14 May 1954, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F101939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2006

  
  

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  		Birth - 3 Jun 1935 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 15 May 1954 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France  = Link to Google Earth
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  For Isabel's eighteenth birthday Antenor arranged to give her a large party in London. The night of the coronation also happened to be the eve of Isabel's eighteenth birthday, and her father had organised her party at Claridges. After the dinner there, Isabel joined some friends at a party at Al Burnett's Stork Room and here she met James Goldsmith. After the birthday night, James went back to Paris while Isabel followed and soon they began to see more and more of each other. Antenor Patino, a watchful parent, learned soon enough whom she was seeing and, disapproving of James Goldsmith, asked him to come to his office. However, the confrontation did not go as planned. If Antenor expected someone overawed and nervous, he was unnerved by the tall, confident young man who now appeared before him in his study. Apparently, after Antenor Patino became very angry, the following conversation took place: 'Young man,' Antenor shouted, 'we come from an old Catholic family.' 'Perfect,' replied Goldsmith, 'I come from an old Jewish family.' 'It is not the habit of members of our family to marry Jews.' 'It is not our habit to marry Red Indians,' Goldsmith is said to have replied. He was referring to Antenor's father, a half-blood Indian from Columbia. However, Patino would not relent and threatened his daughter with placing her in a convent. Meanwhile, the courtship between James Goldsmith and Isabel continued in secret and, in November 1953, Isabel realised she was pregnant. Not aware that she was pregnant but knowing she was still seeing James Goldsmith, Antenor Patino despatched Isabel on a world tour and sent lawyers to Goldsmith, threatening to have him locked up. After two days Goldsmith learned that Isabel was in Casablanca and hired a plane to follow her. However, Patino found out and ordered Isabel to return to Paris. As their planes crossed on Le Bourget, James Goldsmith had gone to North Africa for nothing. However, a friend was asked by Goldsmith to intervene, posing as a driving instructor for Isabel and requiring Isabel's passport, maintaining that she needed extra visas, and with no problems Isabel was on a plane to London. From Casablanca James flew to London and both went to Scotland to be followed by Antenor Patino, who then was joined by his Duchess. However, after several legal manoeuvres, Antenor had to admit defeat and secretly left for London. Only then did the Duchess learn that her daughter was pregnant and, as a result, on 7 January 1954, Isabel and James married. When it was reported in the press that the marriage had taken place, Antenor was reported to have remarked, 'Everything seems to have ended happily.' However, it is doubted that Antenor Patino had made that remark and events that followed were far from happy. His daughter and her new husband returned to Paris. In May 1954 everything changed. Isabel suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage and was taken to hospital. The only hope given was a difficult operation to relieve the pressure on the brain and the same evening the operation took place. These events reconciled the Duchess with James Goldsmith. However, after the operation Isabel remained in a coma and soon the docters warned that they could expect the worst. On 14 May, by Caesarean operation, the two month premature baby was delivered and that evening Isabel was again unsuccessfully operated on. After receiving the last rites, she died a few hours later. Isabel and James Goldsmith had known each other for just eleven months. Years later James Goldsmith rang a friend who had just lost his wife, he was asked, 'How long does it take to get over it?' to this Goldsmith replied 'I don'think you ever do.' The Duchess of Durcal inveigled herself into James's good books and basically kidnapped the baby. However, after an extraordinary court case she was forced to return the baby. James Goldsmith then showed tolerance towards Antenor Patino and his wife for the rest of their lives, ignoring the injuries they had caused him. Many years later, when both their financial circumstances were very different, Antenor Patino went to him for help and James acted as if he were part of his family. Condensed from 'Billionaire' by Ivan Fallon.