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Carmen Cervera


María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra, Dowager Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (in German: María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Freifrau von Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon, popularly known as Carmen "Tita" Cervera or Carmen "Tita" Thyssen) (Barcelona, 23 April 1943), daughter of Enrique Cervera Manent and his wife María del Carmen Fernández de la Guerra Álvarez (d. Madrid, 22 February 1992), is a Spanish philanthropist, socialite and art dealer and collector.

She was Miss Spain in 1961 and was married firstly as his fifth wife on 6 March 1965 to Lex Barker, secondly in 1975 to Espartaco Santoni (), divorcing in 1978, and thirdly as his fifth wife at Daylesford, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on 16 August 1985, to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza.

None of her marriages had issue, but she had a son born , Alejandro (b. Madrid, July 24, 1980), with Manuel Segura. Hans Heinrich adopted her son, known as Alejandro Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (who married Blanca María Cuesta Unkhoff at Terrassa, Barcelona, on 11 October 2007 and had four children, Sacha on 31 January 2008, Eric on 5 August 2010, Enzo on 10 October 2012 and Kala Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, on 30 November 2014). As a widow, Carmen Cervera has also adopted two twin baby girls (born in 2007 in United States), called María del Carmen and Guadalupe Sabina in July 2007.

She has been an art collector since the 1980s. Items from her collection can be seen at:

Loans to other museums have been proposed, including a projected arts centre at Nuevo Baztan near Madrid.


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