Recognized by critics as one of the most outstanding current historical novel writers, her books have reached the bestseller lists for more than four months, with numerous reissues and have been translated into several languages.

Currently she continues to write, lecture in literary and historical forums and collaborate as a columnist in national newspapers and magazines.

The park had been deeded by her grandfather to the municipality in 1975, the year of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, in a bid to win the sympathy of local residents.

Following the approval of Law 33/2006, of 30 October, on the equality of men and women in the order of succession, Almudena, as the first-born daughter, became the main heir to the House of the Infantado, displacing her brother Íñigo, 20th Marquis of Tavara, who until a few years ago, as the first-born among men, was called to be the 20th Duke of the Infantado, and who died in 2012 in a plane crash, and his brother Iván, 16th Marquis of Armunia.

On 17 November 2018, the succession in favor of the Duchy of the Infantado, as well as five other titles of nobility and dignities, was published in the Official State Gazette.