María Teresa León, wife of Rafael Alberti and herself a member of the Order, describes their activities as even more mischievous in nature:"The brothers of the Order of Toledo were always talking loudly, proclaiming their opinions, making scenes. They would sing and look at girls or invent words, throwing them like darts against the walls and making up compliments and pick-up lines. We were overflowing with a happiness that was not quite suited for that walled city, which was always on the defensive. They should have thought us invaders. Invaders that were walking on the chest of the history of Spain, just like the bedbugs in the Posada de la Sangre on the chest of Rafael."Activities of the Order came to a sudden end in July 1936 when Francisco Franco took Toledo in the Siege of the Alcázar in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. The members were scattered during the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and their aftermath—some fled; some fought; some were exiled; still others were shot. Buñuel notes in his memoirs that at the beginning of the Civil War, an anarchist brigade in Madrid found a box marked “Order of Toledo” during a registration. The keeper of the box tried to explain that the name was not a real noble title, but in the end, it cost him his life.