Juan Carlos’ younger sister was born blind. Her family and the government never treated her as less capable due to her disability. When she was little the children of the Count and Countess of Paris would help her climb. She loves music, can speak nine languages, and has a degree in nursing. She surrendered her succession rights to marry Spanish aristocrat and physician Carlos Zurita. Slide 2 is on the day of their engagement. Following her wedding her cousin named her as heir to the dukedom of Hernani. Her brother also granted her the royal life peerage of Duchess of Soria. Carlos is a non-royal duke consort of his wife’s peerages. Together they have two children, son Alfonso and daughter María, and one grandson. They started a cultural foundation together and Margarita is also honorary president of Madrid’s delegation of UNICEF and the Spanish Heart Foundation.

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  1. And Louis Braille, Helen Keller, and Ray Charles are looking down and smiling back at their shared experience.

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