Carlos de Miranda y Quartín

Carlos de Miranda y Quartín, 4th Count of Casa Miranda (20 November 1895 – 14 April 1968) was a Spanish diplomat and aristocrat.

Biography Miranda was born in Madrid in 1895. He joined the diplomatic corps in 1915. with whom he had a son, Carlos Alonso de Miranda y Elío, 5th Count of Casa Miranda. In the 1920s he served as secretary of the Spanish legation in Stockholm and, in 1928, he was appointed chargé d'affaires in the Spanish legation in El Salvador. In February 1929 he was assigned to the Legation in Montevideo but, at the end of that month, he was posted to the Embassy in the Holy See.

In 1933 he was promoted to third-class plenipotentiary minister and ordered to return to Spain, in order to serve in the Ministry of State. At this point, he served as Chief of Protocol of the Ministry of State. Before the Civil War, the Republican government appointed him as chargé d'affaires and consul general of Spain in Sofia, but he was dismissed when he joined the rebel faction. In September 1940 he was appointed consul general in Tangier and in May 1941 he was designated Ambassador of Spain to Egypt. In 1943 he was promoted to second-class plenipotentiary minister and in 1947 he was appointed Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs (at that time, second-highest position after the minister). left The Count arriving to the European Commission for the credentials ceremony. 1960 In 1950 he inherited the noble title of Count of Casa Miranda and the following year he was appointed Ambassador of Spain to Belgium and Luxembourg. During his time in Brussels, he also represented Spanish interests before the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, acting as the first Ambassador of Spain to the European Communities (today known as Permanent Representative of Spain to the European Union). He also served as member of the Cortes Españolas from 1947 to 1951.

In 1955 he was promoted to the category of Ambassador and, after 13 years serving in Brussels, he was appointed Ambassador of Spain to France, a position he held until April 1966. During the "empty chair" conflict between France and the Hallstein Commission to increase the powers of the latter, the Count supported the French position and advised the Spanish government to get close to France and accused the Commission of "exceeding the scope of its functions and wanting to establish itself as a supranational authority with powers that only correspond to States".

He died on 14 April 1968, at the age of 72.