Consuelo ortiga biography of william

Rizal's Lovelife :: Philippines and Rizal

This is what happened to Jose Rizal and Consuelo Ortiga y Rey.

JOSE RIZAL – Consuelo Ortiga y Rey and Jose Rizal’s unfortunate love story and the reasons why Jose Rizal let go of her instead.

Rizal went to Madrid to study and in his journey in a foreign place, by chance he met Consuelo Ortiga y Rey, the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga y Rey, the Spanish liberal and former mayor of Manila who became vice-president of the Council of the Philippines in the Ministry of Colonies.

He grew admiring her despite the fact that he has a fiancee left in the Philippines and that is Leonor Rivera.

Dated January 18, 1883, Consuelo wrote in her diary: “Rizal talked with me for a long time, almost the whole night. He told me that I was very talented, that I was very diplomatic, and that he was going to see if he could extract some truth from me within two weeks; that I was mysterious and that I had a veil over my ideas…”

She was then “Crush ng bayan” because a lot of Fil consuelo ortiga biography of william4 BYBEW