IT is actually the wife of our Ambassador to Spain, Joseph Delano Bernardo, the former model Conchitina Sevilla, who has applied for Spanish citizenship.

Apparently, Madrid had passed a law allowing overseas grandchildren of Spanish citizens to apply for citizenship and, with it, the benefits of European Union membership. Mrs. Bernardo, who all along had thought her grandfather was born in Tondo, belatedly discovered after searching through the UST Archives that the old man had actually seen first light in Spain.