Her grandfather was the Senator of the Republic, Anastasio Somoza Reyes, a member of the traditionalist Conservative Party, mayor of San Marcos and landowner of the Carazo region.
This note circulated between 1940 and 1960 when in that last year the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) was founded by the president, her brother Luis Somoza Debayle.
By November 1941, Anastasio Somoza García was anticipatingly advancing his campaign to continue in power when his first presidential term ended in 1947, which had been extended to 10 years, through a transitional provision of the constitutional reforms approved by the Constituent Assembly of 1938.
To make Lillian "queen" of the army in the framework of an event that involved all the departments of the country, since a process was carried out in which local young women were elected as "Departmental Brides of the National Guard", who formed the "Juvenile Court of Bridesmaids" of Queen Lillian I, was to use sentimental and monarchical symbols that strengthened in the national imaginary the figure of the Somozas as the "imperial family of Nicaragua".
There were strong rumors from critics of the family, who claimed that the crown was designed by the jewelry Van Cleef & Arpels and cost $100,000 in the money of the time, also commissioned the creation of a solid gold scepter.
Miguel López M., a goldsmith from Managua, made the 21-carat gold ring, which was mounted on its mass two blue sapphires and a white pearl, symbolizing the flag of Nicaragua.
Another jeweler from Masaya, Adán Cárdenas, offered him a gold medal in the form of a garland of laurels and a small crown of the kingdom with the initial letter of Lillian's name.
The throne was elaborated by the artist Ernesto Brown and the cordelero José Esteban Flores, who was in charge of manufacturing the carpets that were placed in the National Palace, particularly in the northern part, in the halls in which the coronation and party were held.
The great coronation parade was held on the afternoon of the 14th, crowds of citizens gathered on the sidewalks to contemplate the passage of that march in the style of the princesses of fairy tales, which left at 4:30 p.m. from the private residence of the president, headed by a herald on foot, followed by criers on horseback, a fence formed by the "Imperial Guard" guarding the chariot of Her Majesty Lillian I, followed by the Musical Band of the National Guard and closing the parade army squadrons in field suits; the parade went through the main streets of downtown Managua, leaving the private residence of the presidential family went north on Bolivar Avenue until reaching Darío Park, passing through the Cathedral Square to take First Avenue East to the north, to the exit house.
At 9:00 p.m., to the chords of the National Anthem, making their entrance to the Palace through the main door were President Somoza and the First Lady Doña Salvadora, followed by the grandmothers of the Queen, Mrs. Julia García Vda.
The following year she would have a more prominent role in these activities and had a park and an avenue named in her honor, "Lillian", in the vicinity of the old Presidential Palace of the Loma de Tiscapa in the capital Managua.
The luxury wedding had as best man President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia of Costa Rica and his Belgian wife Yvonne Clays Spoelders, who gave the bride and groom all the floral arrangements from Heredia with which a carpet was made that extended from the Presidential Palace to the Cathedral, where the archbishop was to marry off the bride and groom; half a kilometer covered with gardenias, roses and carnations, on a silk background.
The civil marriage was held at the National Palace a few hours before the religious act; District Judge Dr. Zúñiga Osorio made the legal liaison.
The wedding procession and about a thousand guests gathered in the north wing of the National Palace, including Costa Rican President Calderón Guardia and his wife.
When Somoza left with her husband to Washington D.C. to represent Nicaragua diplomatically, she donated her luxurious residence in Managua to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which she met during the time that her family ruled the nation.
Despite constant pregnancies, Somoza was in charge of the public relations of the embassy and the preparations of dinners and galas in her mansion, where she and her husband entertained dozens of guests, including diplomats and millionaires.