Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (12 October 1896, in
Oruro, Bolivia – 2 February 1982, in New York City) was a
Boliviantycoon, heir to his father
Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".
Family
He married firstly in Paris on 8 April 1931 Doña María Cristina de
Borbón y Bosch-Labrús (
Madrid, 15 May 1913 – 28 July 2002), 3rd
Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch
Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters:
Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie, 7th
Prince of Beauvau-Craon (Paris, 3 February 1921 – Château d'Haroué, 21 November 1982) in Paris on 11 December 1952, later divorced. Had two daughters:
Princess Marie Isabelle de Beauvau-Craon (born 6 November 1953) married first to Duncan Hugh
McLaren in 1978, without issue, and secondly in 1986 to Javier Botana, nephew of
Natalio Botana, with issue.
Princess Marie Diane de Beauvau-Craon (born 20 August 1955) was married to Ahmed Mohamadialal. She and Ahmed Mohamadialal were divorced in 1985. Have issue.
Ernst Schneider, and had one daughter:
Maria Christine Schneider (born 1963) married Patrick-Olivier Picourt in 1987.
Kristo Kurteff, without issue.
Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 –
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with:
Sir
James Goldsmith (Paris, 26 February 1933 –
Benahavís,
Spain, 18 July 1997; married January 1954), by whom she had one daughter:
Isabel Goldsmith (born 1954) married
Arnaud de Rosnay [
fr] in 1973. She and de Rosnay were divorced in 1975, without issue.
He married secondly in London,
Middlesex, on 8 January 1960 Contessa Beatriz di Rovasenda née de Rivera y Digeon (1911–2009), former wife of
Piedmontese Count Giovanni Lodovico di Rovasenda (1905–1986), without issue. From this marriage he had two stepdaughters, born from Beatriz's first marriage to Contedi Rovasenda [
it]:
donna Isabella Manuela di Rovasenda (b.
Lisbon, Portugal, 20 June 1936). She married Count Henri-Jean
de Castellane in 1960 and they divorced in 1979. Have issue.
donna Maria Elena di Rovasenda. She married Pierre Le Blan in February 1956. They later divorced.
Business
In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor. The
Bolivian Revolution of 1952 nationalised Patiño's mines and it is claimed that his heir Antenor Patiño had his hand in the
military coup that deposed the leader of the revolution, then President
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, in the 1960s.
With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like
Las Hadas, in
Manzanillo, Mexico, (where the movie 10 starring actress
Bo Derek was filmed) and
Las Alamandas in
Jalisco state, also in Mexico.