| Princess Rosario | |
|---|---|
| Princess of Preslav Duchess in Saxony | |
 Pictured at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden in 2010 | |
| Born | María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila (1968-10-22) October 22, 1968 (age 56) Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca Balearic Islands, Spain |
| Spouse |
Kyril, Prince of Preslav
(m. 1989; sep. 2009) |
| Issue | Princess Mafalda-Cecilia Princess Olimpia Prince Tassilo |
| Father | Miguel Nadal y Bestard |
| Mother | Isabel Fuster de Puigdórfila y Villanova |
| Occupation | art director, art consultant |
| Bulgarian royal family |
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The Princess of Koháry |
María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila (born 22 October 1968), also known as the Princess of Preslav, is a Spanish consultant, art director, and former model. A former muse for Valentino, she works as an independent adviser to private art collectors and serves as the deputy director of the Colección Jumex. She is a senior member of the Bulgarian royal family as the estranged wife of Kyril, Prince of Preslav, from whom she separated in 2009.
Early life
Rosario was born Doña María del Rosario Nadal y Fuster de Puigdórfila on 22 October 1968 in Palma de Mallorca to Doña Isabel Fuster de Puigdórfila y Villanova and Miguel Nadal y Bestard. A member of the Spanish nobility by birth, she is the granddaughter of Joaquín de Puigdórfila y Zaforteza, 9th Count of Olocau. Her family is descended from the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II through his daughter Isabel Moctezuma.
She was educated at the Colegio Madre Alberta. She went on to study fine art at Richmond, The American International University in London.
Career
In 1989 Rosario worked at Christie's and in London and Italian art galleries. She later began working as a contemporary art consultant and independent adviser to private art collectors and established her own company, RSC Contemporary.
In the 1990s Rosario served as a muse to the Italian designer Valentino Garavani and modeled in one of his advertisement campaigns. She has been featured on the cover of Vanity Fair España, Vogue Spain and Vogue Italia.
In the early 2000s she became the personal art adviser for Mexican businessman Eugenio López Alonso. In 2013 Rosario and Vicente Todolí launched the Jumex Museum in Mexico City as part of the Colección Jumex, for which she serves as the deputy director. In her role at Jumex, she has procured works by Antoni Muntadas, Xabier Salaberría, Txomin Badiola, and Santiago Sierra and has worked in partnerships with the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Rosario also owns and manages Arar Producciones Rurales SL, a Spanish company that cultivates legumes.
Personal life
Rosario married Kyril, Prince of Preslav, the son of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria and Doña Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, on 15 September 1989 in an Eastern Orthodox ceremony at St. Anne's Chapel in the Almudaina Palace in Palma de Mallorca. The wedding was attended by senior members of the Spanish royal family including Juan Carlos I of Spain, Queen Sofía of Spain, Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Infanta Cristina of Spain, and Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo. She has three children: Princess Mafalda-Cecilia, Princess Olimpia, and Prince Tassilo.
In September 2009 she and her husband were included in the Best Dressed List by Vanity Fair España. Rosario was added to the list again in 2013. She was added to the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List in 1995.
Rosario and Prince Kyril separated in October 2009. She has since been in a relationship with Albanian artist Anri Sala. She resides in London. While she and Prince Kyril are separated, they are not divorced, and she has made official appearances with him since the separation. In 2010 she accompanied her estranged husband to the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and Daniel Westling.
Rosario is a godmother of Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway. She is a close friend of Infanta Cristina of Spain and is also the godmother of her daughter, Irene Urdangarin y de Borbón. In 2015 she spoke out in support of Infanta Cristina and her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, after they were investigated for fraud and corruption.
References
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- ^ "Íntima de Mette-Marit y Paltrow: Rosario Nadal, los 50 años de la dama más enigmática". El Confidencial. October 22, 2018.
- "MOVIMIENTO NOBILIARIO 1931-1940" (PDF). www.ramhg.es. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 July 2021.
- "Rosario Nadal, una amiga de fiesta". vf. December 30, 2012.
- ^ "Rosario Nadal: "Me he ganado el respeto en el mundo del arte"". Expansión. August 16, 2019.
- ^ Román, Manuel (January 12, 2020). "Asi viven Kyril de Bulgaria y Rosario Nadal 10 años después de su divorcio". Chic.
- "Rosario Nadal se va de vacaciones a Capri con Valentino y Gwyneth Paltrow". vf. June 25, 2018.
- "Rosario Nadal, Naty Abascal... Valentino reúne a sus musas en Capri por su 87 cumpleaños". ELMUNDO. May 15, 2019.
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- ^ "Los Cortina, Rosario Nadal y Miriam Ungría, ¿'víctimas' del Brexit? – Informalia.es". informalia.eleconomista.es.
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- "Kyril de Bulgaria y su esposa, Rosario Nadal, los mejor vestidos del año". abc. September 26, 2009.
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- "Rosario Nadal y Kyril de Bulgaria pasan sus Navidades juntos por sus hijos". Europa Press. December 28, 2011.
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- "Estos son los amigos con los que la infanta Cristina podrá contar". vf. June 13, 2018.
- "Cristina, acorralada: sus íntimos hablan por primera vez". vf. July 17, 2015.
| Bulgarian princesses | |
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| Princess of Bulgaria by marriage | |
- Living people
- 1968 births
- 20th-century Spanish women
- 21st-century Spanish women
- Bulgarian princesses
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- Directors of museums in Mexico
- Duchesses in Germany
- House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Bulgaria)
- Muses (persons)
- People from Palma de Mallorca
- Princesses by marriage
- Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Spanish art directors
- Spanish female models
- Women museum directors
- 20th-century Spanish nobility
- Royalty and nobility models
- Spanish socialites