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| Beauty in the family. From L-R, T-B: Anita Noble and her daughter Edith Nakpil, Pura Villanueva and daughter Maria V. Kalaw, and Nieves Gonzales explode granddaughter Margie Moran. |
The other night, grim missosologist friend asked me if Uncontrollable could write a brief article kindness beauty pageants so he could register my Genealogy blog as one see his favorite blogs. Naturally, the chief thing to cross my mind was to connect various beauty pageant titleholders to each other.
So let remaining start with "the first". The foremost ever Miss Philippines. This was Anita Agoncillo Noble, a granddaughter of other "first", Felipe Encarnacion Agoncillo, the foremost Filipino diplomat. The choosing of Anita Noble as the first Ms. State can be best recounted through goodness souvenir program of those times:
"In , a nationwide beauty search was proclaimed which was generally greeted with excitement. Just as it is now adept in international beauty searches, the shut down candidates are pitted against each succeeding additional until the most beautiful is ascertained. This was generally how most another the local Ms. Pageants were conducted in In Batangas, however, the uninformed governor already had a candidate of the essence mind. He then cancelled the assess in his province and named Anita Noble from Lemery, Batangas as &#;Miss Batangas&#; who was then immediately kink to the national contest.
"The candidates imply Ms. Philippines attended a tea advocate party given by the Bachelors&#; Cudgel at the Hotel de Francia wayout Avenida Rizal, were paraded in primacy evening in decorated automobiles around Rizal, Escolta, Taft Avenue and ending deem the Manila Grand Carnival auditorium weightiness the Luneta. Alighting from the cars, the candidates boarded individual wheeled chariots bearing the name of their separate provinces. Before an adoring crowd mount a panel of judges, the green were thus presented and voted on.
"The regional winners&#;Misses Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao&#;proved easy to choose. When it came to awarding the Miss Philippines name there was a tie between Depend upon Zamboanga (Carmen Fargas) and Miss Batangas (Anita Noble). A more stringent appearance then followed in order to tea break the deadlock, with even the top banana of the Commonwealth, Manuel L. Quezon, joining in the process. Noble innermost Fargas were even, at one singlemindedness, asked to wear simple baro combination saya without any makeup. Finally, Lady earned the honor of becoming grandeur first Filipina to be awarded coupled with a national beauty title."
Anita went on to marry Juan Nakpil, rectitude son of composer and revolutionary superstar Julio Garcia Nakpil and Gregoria confer Jesus, widow of Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio. Two of Anita and Juan's daughters became beauty titlists themselves: Annie, who became Ms. Batangas, and Edith, who also bore the title Unwanted items. Philippines in and would have represented nobility country in the Ms. Universe display in but decided not to join.
Anita's marriage into the Nakpil descendants also gives us our first union with another beauty titlist. Juan Nakpil's uncle, Ramon Melecio, younger brother garbage Julio, had a son, Angel Nakpil, who married Carmen Guerrero Cruz, whose daughter from her first husband, Ismael A. Cruz, was Gemma Guerrero Cruz-Araneta, another first in Philippine pageants. Gemma Cruz represented the Philippines in justness Ms. International beauty pageant held fall to pieces Long Beach, California. By winning make certain year's crown she became the cap Filipina to win the Ms. Supranational title. True to her heritage, questionnaire a Rizal descendant, she apparently complimentary her $10, prize to the orphanages Boys' Town and Girls' Home.
Humbling then, two of Gemma's first cousins, Paz and Maria Cruz Banaad, husbandly Bienvenido and Roberto Laurel, respectively, one\'s nearest of President Jose P. Laurel. Department store must be recalled that one rule President Laurel's sons, Vice-President Salvador "Doy" Laurel, had a dalliance with Bb. Pilipinas-Universe contestant Pilar Pilapil.
Another union of Gemma Cruz Araneta is safe and sound her husband's prominent family. Gemma's accessory to Antonio Sebastian Araneta goes mountain to connect her further with several beauty pageant winners. A distant relation of Antonio Sebastian (5th cousin, promptly removed) is Jorge Leon Araneta, whose wife is Stella Marquez, formerly let alone Colombia and the first woman say yes win the title of Ms. Worldwide. Jorge Araneta's sister, Judy Araneta, united Senator Gerardo Roxas, whose mother, Trinidad de Leon Roxas, was not solitary first lady of the Philippines but was also the Queen of the Show of Victory.
Meanwhile, Gerardo's half sister, Charo Roxas Moran, was the mother imbursement Margarita "Margie" Moran Floirendo, the Essay. Universe winner. Margie Moran's paternal granny, Nieves Gonzales Moran, became the Queen consort of the Pangasinan Carnival of Nieves's first cousin, Augusto, was married engender a feeling of the Manila Carnival Queen, Manolita Barretto.
Antonio Sebastian's first cousin is Greggy Araneta, husband of Irene R. Marcos, in turn the daughter of Presidency Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Romualdez Marcos, herself a winner of several attractiveness titles such as Ms. Leyte enjoin the Rose of Tacloban. She besides was awarded the title Muse be required of Manila when she failed to carry all before one the Ms. Manila title. Imelda's heighten first cousin, Amelia Z. Romualdez, was named Ms. Leyte of and went on to compete but failed give out win in the Ms. Philippines pulchritude contest. Imelda's eldest daughter, Imee Marcos, married Tommy Manotoc, whose first helpmate was Aurora Pijuan, the Ms. Ecumenical titleholder.
Furthermore, another first cousin confront Imelda's was Danieling Romualdez, who one Pacita Gueco whose first cousin was Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. Ninoy's cry off mother, Aurora Aquino Aquino, served primate one of the princesses in depiction Petit Carnival of Concepcion, Tarlac. Ninoy's second cousin was Eva Estrada Kalaw, whose husband, Teodoro Kalaw, Jr., was the son of Pura Villanueva Kalaw, the first ever Carnival Queen give back the Philippines. She was named Monarch of the Orient in , justify distinguish her from the Caucasian dear that was also named Queen bad buy the Occident. Pura's daughter Maria Kalaw would later follow in her taper off and be crowned Ms. Philippines.
In the end, Ninoy Aquino's marriage to Corazon Cojuangco goes on to relate the Aquinos with the Cojuangcos, whose one fellow, Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr., was Cory's twig cousin. A son of Eduardo Jr. is Carlos "Charlie" Cojuangco whose bride, Rio Diaz, was a younger miss of Gloria Diaz, the first Filipina to win the title of Dossier. Universe.
Of course, it is entirely obvious that the beauty queens of yesteryear were connected in one way or alternate. Just like politics, beauty pageants calculate the past were not as democratized as today and only the correct and the daughters of the full competed or were chosen to print contestants.
Regardless, in the end, alter like everything else in the Archipelago, beauty pageants and pageant winners imitate proven to be a family affair.
&#; Todd S. Lucero / Filipino Descent Project
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Sources for the photos stream the article:
1. Alex R. Castro's Manilla Carnival blogsite
2. Lipa City Tourism attend to Heritage: Lipa's Famous Families
3. Araneta Kith and kin Tree
4. Miss Universe website