From that moment and for almost 30 years, Carmen Romero Rubio was the first lady of a nation that saw her as a protector who could trust and access the chief of the Executive more quicklyas recorded by the large amount of correspondence and gifts aimed at it on the occasion of requesting their help or intervention in cases that went from work to social and civil.
On the occasion of his silver weddings, numerous portraits of the president and his wife in the national and international press were publishedCasasola Photography (sic), Mexico, ca. 1906. National Photo Library, INAH
Wife and conciliatory
The Romero Rubio Castelló family was known for their faith and devotion to the Catholic religion, so the Díaz and Romero Rubio link also meant a conciliation that allowed the religious institution to live in a quieter and more relaxed ways and business after what the reform laws had caused themespecially with the confiscation of ecclesiastical goods included in the Lerdo Law of 1856.
Manuel Romero Rubio, Carmen's father, It had been a faithful collaborator of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejadawho at the death of Juarez had been appointed president and against whom Diaz had revolted, promoting exile not only of Lerdo de Tejada, but of the Rubio Rubio himself in New York.
In that sense, The marriage also symbolized the reconciliation of the new government headed by Díaz with the old order and its protagonists such as the father -in -law of the general, who became after the link, secretary of the Interior Until his death in 1895. At this point it should also be highlighted that the conciliation with Lerdo de Tejada charged a deeper meaning since it was Carmen's christening godfather and who had a great influence on her.
Carmen Romero Rubio disguised as Amazona for a party at the end of the 19th century.
Family obligations
In social and family life Díaz -Romero Rubio brought significant changes as well. Carmen had met the rude and little educated military who was Porfirio Díaz in the late 1880s when, as a pretext of teaching English and notions of the French to the general, he began to court her to later ask for her in marriage. The English and French classes would join lessons of urbanity and label that as a wife, Carmelita tried not only for him, but for the children that Díaz had had with his niece, Delfina Ortega and the daughter he had with a warrior woman named Rafaela Quiñones. This is how Carmen, unable to have her own children, fulfilled the functions of a mother when taking care of, educating and seeing by love, light and porfirio.