Friends

May 2004

Tolosa, Leyte; San Miguel, Manila; Makati

Ministry of Human Settlement (Minister), Metropolitan Manila Commission(Governor), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary), Batasang Pambansa (Member of Parliament), House of Representatives(1995-1998)

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Holy Ghost College, Holy Infant High School, St Paul's College

Former First Lady

Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), Marcos Loyalist Movement

Malakas at Maganda (our cultural genesis), Mothering, Singing, reading, going to movies, letter writing, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple

Circles of Life, Si Imelda- Ang Filipina, The Ideas of Imelda Romualdez Marcos, Let the Marcos Truth Prevail

Love songs such "You Belong to My Heart"

Cancer

I consider myself of the South, being a Romualdez of Leyte, where my forebears founded the town of Tolosa and established a family that has become one of the mightiest political clans of the country.

My own branch of the family, however, is not political. My father was a scholarly man more interested in music and culture than in public life. On my mother's side, I am a Trinidad from the town of Baliaug, Bulacan, which is as famed as the South for the charmed of its women. Therefore, I am of both the North and the South.

I spent my childhood in the shadow of the Malacanang Palace; my family then lived near San Miguel Church. I earned my bachelor's degree in education at St Paul's, taught for a while, but teaching was not to be my life.

I aws a beauty queen at 18, as the "Rose of Tacloban" became Miss Leyte, went to Manila in 1953 toi act as presiding beauty of the first International Fair and Exposition.

In 1954, I met then Congressman Ferdinand Marcos. After a whirlwind courtship in Baguio during HolyWeek, we were married in May of that year at the San Miguel Pro-Catheral with President Ramon Magsaysay as principal sponsor. We honeymooned abroad, made our home in San Juan, Rizal. We have three children: Maria Imelda, Ferdinand,Jr., and Irene.

I believe Mothering is the creative soul in the endless and selfless giving of the good, true and the beautiful to humanity to our world, as we unite in one spirit to regain paradise unto infinity.

"MOTHERING is the rising spirit," even Death does not Diminish a Mother's Love. IN THE END THE ONLY THINGS WE KEEP IN LIFE ARE THOSE WE GIVE AWAY. LOVE!

THE FIRST LADY'S VISIT TO AUSTRALIA

THE FIRST LADY IN CHINA:


THE FIRST LADY RECEIVING THE KAJIMA PEACE AWARDS IN 1975 (video clip):