January 24, 1977, a late-Francoist terrorist attack stains Madrid black… two young people from the extreme right enter an apartment at night and kill 5 labor lawyers from the Communist party of Spain with firearms. King Juan Carlos I of Borbón had just appointed the President of the Government, who had been Director of RTVE three years before, Adolfo Suarez. The Atocha massacre saved one of the firm's lawyers, Manuela Carmena, who just before the attack exchanged offices with one of the deceased. Who would have imagined that 40 years later she would be the mayor of Madrid?

Like every summer, XANA and Colonel Ponce spent the summer with their 16 grandchildren on the beach, eight girls and eight boys, aged between three and twenty. All the grandchildren fell asleep with the stories of the war and of their grandmother with her Khadimas who are the maids, in Morocco. And that summer in particular, XANA was able to renew itself a bit and tell them about scenes from the movie that had just been released, Bodas de Sangre, by Moroccan director Souheil Ben-Barra, based on Federico Garcia Lorca's 1933 play.
 It was an urbanization where her children also had their houses. Except The Voice of Orange and Angel who lived with XANA for the three summer months. They were very large houses two steps from the sand, without tourists and very close to the city. Most of the grandchildren had been born in the summer and spent their entire summer celebrating birthdays. They used to gather tables that were in the arcades and that surrounded the large pool and thus spend the day eating, drinking and of course, singing Asturias patria querida. XANA said that Asturias was Spain and the rest, reconquered land. While a family used two or three tables, XANA's family gathered ten and the parties lasted until well into the morning.

The oldest children of Carmina, XANA's daughter and who was 13 years difference from her sister Elvira, were studying medicine and law. ! They were gorgeous! a super exotic beauty. They had each come out with their personality to their great-great-grandfather, the mysterious Asturian C
 With jet-black hair, porcelain-white skin, and a Hollywood smile. At the last minute they always had to put together another table just for the lovers.
His father, Don Federico Carbonell, went sailing on his boat every morning and picked up his brother-in-law Angel and his niece Esther, who had swum since she was born.
XANA, who was already beginning to sense the future again, explained to her sons-in-law, what Esther would be, when her mother Elvira, the fourth and last generation of XANAS of the "Leré" family, was missing and that was why she was so attracted to the sea, the fountains, the rivers, the gold, the color white and sang and danced like fairies.
All the nephews went to the dental clinic of their uncle Federico, which was in the middle of Gran Vía Marques del Turia. In the building that he bought so that each of his six children would have their home and that his father, the architect of the Valencia City Council, Mr. Carlos Carbonell, had designed. 

 Esther was in her sauce with so many cousins, it was like having a company and running it. Everyone loved her, admired her and followed her orders. Esther called XANA Mamaita, in Asturian we say güela, but for her Esther she was another mother. What Esther liked was being with her grandfather, she cleaned the medals on his uniform and took Pictolín candies from the inside pocket of his jacket, those tiny mint ones… and she always asked him the same thing ; - where do you have the gun grandpa? ? Of course it was never at home. The Colonel answered his famous phrase; — passed short, long view, and bad milk!
 The last week of August the children's tennis, athletics, bicycle and swimming competitions were held. On August 28, Esther turned 7 years old and everyone was invited. In addition, that date coincided with her farewell, because they were returning to Madrid to start school on September 1.
The parents commented during the giant paella that had been cooking all morning, and with a face of few friends, that it was impossible to beat the grandchildren of Colonel Ponce, especially the three from Madrid, which was what they called the children of Elvira and Angel , because every year they took the gold medals. Born athletes, their bodies were already muscular, strong and defined. They were the only blonde grandchildren with curly gold hair.
The topic of conversation that day of the great family was the historic act that was going to happen in a few months in Covadonga. The tribute to the Prince of Asturias Felipe de Borbón and who happened to have an enormous resemblance to her grandson Ismael, Elvira's firstborn. That he had won a national contest "Maravillas del Saber" and was already one of the most outstanding students in all of Spain.
 XANA said goodbye to Elvira as always, with special affection, this time warning her to be very careful with her Princess of Kapurthala; —Daughter, Esther is a star, but she shines so much that not everyone will accept it and she will be very envious. But do not worry about anything, that the Virgin of Socorro has already begun to form her halo and she will always protect us.

They arrived in Madrid straight to their new house in La Piovera, next to the Parque Conde de Orgaz. An urbanization with thousand of amazing trees, where all the aviation pilots lived, with an American mentality for being close to the base and where you could already see signs of Halloween in the chalets. In Spain it was practically not celebrated, but in the new school that was in the same urbanization it was. It was a great change, from the Obispo Perello male College of priests, and the female Corpus Christi of nuns, to a mixed English school.
There was a family that celebrated the eve of all Saints as in the time of the primitive Christians, who went begging through the houses "dead cakes", which were pieces of bread with raisins. The more they received, the more they would pray for their souls and those of their loved ones.
The Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci arrived at the Barajas airport in Madrid, received by Félix Fernández, the President of the Spanish Federation. Esther just wanted to watch television to follow her muse, Nadia. She had been very struck by the fact that she had become, at only fourteen years old, the first gymnast in history to win the gold medal at the Montreal Olympics with a perfect ten. Years later, the humiliations and physical punishments to which her coach Bela karolyi subjected her were uncovered. But what fascinated Esther the most was that her muse would travel to Valencia to be the Fallera Mayor of that year. All this caused her parents to sign her up for artistic gymnastics at the Moscardó gym on Avenida de America.
 But what fascinated Esther the most was that her muse would travel to Valencia to be the Fallera Mayor of that year. All this caused her parents to sign her up for artistic gymnastics at the Moscardó gym on Avenida de America.
The training sessions were very hard because Esther had decided to follow in Comaneci's footsteps.
In the first week, she already had a perfect flig flag on the ground. It involves a back flip in the air, throwing your legs over your head and landing with your knees bent and your feet together.
Elvira was in charge of picking up Esther after training. That day she was talking to XANA who had a premonition since summer and told her to do everything possible so that Angel would go to see the training that day and that without fail she would take the Virgen del Socorro. Elvira replied that it was impossible because he was recording a new album with Raphael the singer, who never rested, who released an album every year and that Angel was his Angel, as the artist said, and he didn't want to record with anyone else. But Elvira, would always listen to her mother and began to think of a plan.

 Elvira left Esther in the gym, instead of waiting for the training to finish, she went to the Hispavox studios that were very close and asked Angel to come out that it was very important and that it wouldn't be long. And to please take a break. Angel didn't hesitate and got into the car, he already knew his mother-in-law's premonitions and had already saved his daughter's life once.
They took advantage and stayed to watch the training. The coach was at the front door talking to some parents and he couldn't see and avoid what was about to happen.
To do the flig flag on the vault, ( potro) you have to have the trainer hold you around the waist to make sure you land on top of the bar, because it's a back somersault. The name says it all, and we are talking about a wood lined with leather, where your foot does not even fit and balance is the basis of everything and requires a lot of time. When Esther saw her father in the stands, she wanted to show him what she had learned in the Nadia Comaneci style, she stopped practicing on the ground and went straight to el potro , she jumped with her legs spread and climbed on. At that moment Elvira stood up suddenly because she knew her daughter's intentions, she ran down the steps, and without shouting so as not to scare her, she approached the colt with her heart in her hand to prevent her from performing the somersault without a coach and without anyone to help her. She was watching her... when suddenly in just two seconds, the huge room trembled, it was heard at the same time and with a great echo, the murmur of the people and the cries of some mothers. Esther had twisted into the back flip in the air. Her instinct made her look at her father, who was staring at her and sending her all his love and strength from afar... until God wanted Esther to find her center, grab onto the colt with her toes like a cat and everyone breathed again.
Angel told Elvira that if she didn't want to die of a heart attack, Esther had to give up gymnastics and listen to D. Julio and her godmother, who had long been after enrolling the princess in ballet classes at the school of best teacher, Victor Ullate.
 Esther was also scared to death, her destiny had changed and she decided to be an actress, but at the Conservatory they told her that she couldn't enter until she was 14 years old. In the meantime, she would accept the gift from her godparents and start ballet classes because is the mother of dance.
With her great elasticity, her movement coordination and the star that made her shine, she quickly acquired a good level in classical dance.
Esther was very independent and did not let her mother into the school like other mothers did. She did the bow by herself and Elvira only came in to pick it up.
One day, Elvira came in earlier and asked the secretary how her daughter was doing and if she was doing. She when she found out that her daughter had not been going to classes for a while. Elvira got very scared, and waited for her to come out. Esther told her that she listened to the music and the castanets (castanets) in the Spanish classical class taught by a young teacher, Victoria Eugenia, Betty. And that she liked it better than just doing ballet. What was more entertaining and more fun… Fifteen years later Betty would become Director of the National Ballet of Spain.
Two years later, Esther began her Spanish Dance career at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Dance in Madrid.

XANA was having a snack one afternoon with Doña Blanca and Aunt Blanca asked her if she was going to Madrid to attend homage to D. Julio. They were going to appoint D. Emilio General and they could not attend. Blanca was putting away the suit that she would take to Madrid and that she would wear for the Voice of Orange dinner. But XANA seemed worried, she told Blanca that when she was sewing it, she clearly saw the halo again of the Virgen del Socorro and she felt a different shiver than the other times. That night her mother appeared in a dream and announced that her daughter Elvira would travel to Argentina, and that a man with gray hair would cheat on her. 

TVE dedicates the program “A Fondo” by J. Soler Serrano to Prieto Nespereira and the prestigious Kreisler galleries in the Salamanca district of Madrid and the Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Interior, Mr. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, decide to pay tribute to him and offer a dinner gala organized by her daughter Esther Gloria at her home in Majadahonda.
Don Manuel was a close friend of the painter, also Galician, and they had met in Cuenca when Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism. The summer months were neighbors in their beach houses in Pontedeume.
Esther Gloria put on a party that was talked about for years in the mountains of Madrid. She did not lack detail. Since she liked flowers so much, the house was full of fauna in every corner, ceiling and window. They were two very large houses close together. They had 8 rooms where you could also observe the art, D. Julio's study, 6 bathrooms, a kitchen the size of two huge ones and 4 dining rooms. Esther Gloria did not skimp on the organization and hired ten waiters before going to the table, who went from one side of the house to the other without stopping to offer trays with the best delicacies worthy of an opera Diva.
She put on the long velvet robe to her feet, to hide the hundred kilos that she weighed. Her hair fresh from the salon and her exaggerated and expensive jewelry decorated her chubby fingers, with long nails painted light pink and pointed, and which played the piano like the goddesses... Not having her Adonis around prevented her from lose weight and be completely happy...
It was like visiting an antique museum and all the guests were delighted and celebrating a moment in the history of each of their lives.

Among the guests was aunt Blanca who also stayed that night along with Elvira, Angel and Esther, it was impossible to convince her to stay at home with her brothers. The princess wanted to attend her godfather's tribute even if it was from Esther Gloria's room, where she used to sleep many weekends in the four-poster bed from the 15th century.
Blanca, in addition to being the secretary and friend of the Director of Radio Nacional de España, was parading for the Lois brand. XANA, who sometimes accompanied her, told her to pay attention to the company's logo, which is a little bull, because she would have a lot to do with her life when she was an old woman...
Blanca's long and thin legs did not go unnoticed by the Director of the founder of Lois jeans, Mr Joaquin Sáez Merino. Who met Blanca in the workshop one afternoon when she was accompanying her neighbor who turned out to be his secretary.

He finishing touch was provided by La voz de Naranja accompanied on piano by Esther Gloria. With the first chords of "Alfonsina y el Mar" Elvira began to recite with her so charismatic voice the tragic story of the suicide in the sea of ​​the Argentine poet, Alfonsina Storni.
But when she began to sing the sad song of solitude, with such an elegant color of voice and such pure beauty, D. Julio, who was already 78 years old although he was perfectly preserved, could not help crying and behind him, the rest of guests…Esther, had pretended to be asleep with the nanny and escaped from the room hiding behind the sofa to see her mother's performance. When she saw that everyone was crying, instead of going back to the room and no one would have found out about her mischief, she thought that making them laugh would be the best ending for them. She appeared in her nightgown next to the piano with her two golden braids, and after hugging her mother, she thanked the guests with great sympathy and politeness for their assistance, hoping to see them again. Who did not stop smiling while saying goodbye commenting on what happened and thanking the sublime night they had attended.
Argentina was knocking on Elvira's door as XANA predicted...