Rodrigo Rato and Alicia González Vicente get married secretly

Rodrigo Rato and Alicia González.

Secret wedding. The Gijón Rodrigo Rato66 years old, and his girlfriend, the journalist Alicia González Vicente, 42, got married on September 9 after fifteen years of relationship. At the wedding of the former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), held privately in front of fifty friends and family, there was no presence of ministers or officials from the Popular Party. According to the newspaper “Abc”, the secrecy was such that not even the son that Rato had with his previous wife was present. Gela Alarco, since it was outside of Spain. The wedding was at Rato's family estate in Carabaña, southeast of Madrid, officiated by a councilor, while a priest friend of the family celebrated a mass. Ana and María de los Ángeles, Rato's two daughters, acted as witnesses. The bride wore a short off-white dress with a V-neckline. The groom, a dark suit and white shirt. González and Rato met when he was Minister of Economy and Finance and she worked in the press department. When Rato became head of the IMF, his girlfriend did not accompany him, and after three years in Washington the couple settled in an apartment in the select neighborhood of Salamanca, in Madrid, the same home where Rodrigo lived last April. Rato was arrested. This summer, the now married couple was “hunted” by photographers on a yacht in the waters of Mallorca. On Twitter, Alicia González presents herself as an international economics correspondent for a Madrid newspaper.