[8] On 30 July 1936 a Diplomatic Cabinet was created, whose purpose was to advise the Junta de Defensa Nacional [es].
This cabinet comprised three first-class secretaries (José María Bermejo Gómez, Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, and Vicente Taberna Latasa), six second-class secretaries (Gerardo Gasset y Neyra, Luis Roca de Togores y Pérez del Pulgar, Rafael Romero Ferrer, Antonio Villacieros Benito, Fernando Sebastián de Erice y O'Shea, and Manuel Orbea Biardeu) and one third-class secretary, a position that fell to Margarita Salaverría Galarraga.
[10] Salaverría Galárraga married fellow diplomat (and classmate) Jaime Argüelles Armada, one of the founders of Banesto.
[1][11] During World War II, she was posted in London, where her husband was a trade advisor to the Duke of Alba's team, and she worked as an embassy secretary.
[1][2] She is considered, together with Aline Griffith and Meye Allende de Maier, to be the muse of haute couture designer Balenciaga.