Victoria Aguirre

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**Victoria Aguirre** is the overarching antagonist and main antagonist of the third season alongside Purificación Riquelme of *The House of Flowers*. She is the mother of the deceased matriarch, Virginia de la Mora, and the grandmother of protagonists Paulina, Elena and Julián de la Mora, she's a conservative and manipulative woman who disapproves of the ways of her family and after Virginia's death, decides to return to Mexico and get her house and flower shop back at any costs.

She appears as a minor character at the end of the second season and it is later revealed to be the overarching antagonist in the third season.

She was portrayed by the late veteran mexican actress Isela Vega and her youngerself by Rebecca Jones.

## Biography

### Backstory

During the 70s, she was very controlling with her daughter, preventing her from visiting her father, who she claimed to be very sick, she hired Silvia a.k.a "La Chiva" as a nurse for him, but Victoria began giving her housekeeper chores, during Virginia's 18th birthday, she introduces her to Agustín, the son of her just as wealthy friend, "Tatis" (Grandmother of "La Chiquis"), Victoria wants her to start a relationship with him, however Virginia is too absorbed in her own friends, so she escapes the party and goes with them in a trip to Acapulco, there she falls in love with Salomón Cohen, but also has a one night stand with her secretly homosexual friend, Patricio "Pato" Lascuraín.

When she returns home, Victoria sends her to a finishing school alongside her friend Carmela, however Salomón and Ernesto (Virginia's future husband), visit them one night, and Salomón makes love with Virginia.

After Virginia finds out that she's pregnant, she keeps it a secret from her mother, she sneaks with the help of Carmela into her father's bedroom to confess it to him, but is busted by Victoria, she later finds out about the pregnency by a phone call from her doctor. Given that she doesn't want her to be with Salomón for being Jewish, nor Ernesto for being bankrupt, she visits "Tatis" and agrees with her to get Agustín married with Virginia, however, Agustín is in a secret relationship with Patricio, during those days, Virginia's father goes missing, Victoria tells Virginia he abandoned them and during the party where it is announced that they'll get married, Pato visits Agustín and Virginia sees them kissing, Agustín realizes and denies his relationship with Pato. Pato then finds Silvia's necklace in the garden, when he returns it to her, he notices she's anguished by something, they speak and Pato finds out Victoria killed her husband and blamed Silvia for it, making her bury the corpse in the garden, extorting her to not call the police, Pato tries to tell Virginia but she refuses to listen and kicks him out of the house. During Virginia's pregnancy, Victoria gives her the same "medicine" she was giving to her father, which is actually a sedative.

Salomon's family also refuse to let him get married to Virginia and Virginia refuses to get married to Agustín, during New Year, Virginia visits Pato at a local nightclub, where he confesses to Virginia her mother killed her father, she accuses Pato of lying and they fight, Ernesto then takes her out of there, Pato, drunk, kisses Agustín who was also there, in front of his friends, they drag him out of the club and beat him to death. Meanwhile Silvia decides to call the police on Victoria, but she didn't know Victoria was friends with the police commander, and she frames Silvia for stealing her mother's ring (which she had previously gave to her as a show of "gratitude"), Silvia ends up in jail and it's later accused of killing Victoria's husband.

After this, Virginia and Ernesto agree to get married to help each other with their problems. Victoria hires a new housekeeper, Delia, and tells her she's leaving the house to not deal with Virginia's decision and tells her that if the flowershop is ever in trouble, to call her so she takes care of everything.

### Present Day

Victoria retrieves the flowershop from "La Chiquis", and after the events of the second season, Elena, one of her grandkids ends up pregnant and in coma after a car crash with Jenny Quetzal, once she wakes up, she can't remember Diego, Julian's bboyfriend is the father and she lend him her uterus, Victoria sees this as an opportunity to put Elena against her siblings and starts giving her the same "medicine" to keep her manipulatable, she tries to do the same with Elena and find her a wealthy husband, Julian who didn't knew about Diego and Elena's agreement, finds out Diego's the father and thinks he cheated on him, confused and seeking his parents approval, Diego voluntarily goes to a ranch were they "cure" gay people. Elena starts dating Pablo a former colleague, Victoria disapproves this as he's well kept, Pablo looks at Elena's "medicine" and recognizes as a sedative, Elena believes him and stops taking them.

Meanwhile Victoria confesses to Delia she visited Virginia during her chemotherapy in Texas, and that she didn't assist to her funeral despite Delia invited her, because no member of her family invited her, and he plans to use the guilt against the family.

After being in jail and being harassed by an elderly Silvia, Paulina investigates with María José what is her relationship with her family, they find and question Pato's family and Agustín about Patricio, after they refuse to speak about him, Paulina tells her father about their investigation, Ernesto reveals to Paulina he knew Pato and was there when he confessed to Virginia about her mother's crime. Meanwhile, tired of Victoria's humiliation, Delia (who Victoria doesn't remember having hired) starts giving her the sedative in her tea, the night Paulina finds out about the truth, Victoria also finds out Delia has been giving her the sedative, she tries to call the police on Delia planning with framing her of theft, just as he did with Silvia, but Delia turns off the house's lights, Victoria grabs a knife and begins looking for Delia, Paulina and María José arrive to the house and hear Victoria calling for Delia, Paulina menaces Victoria if she does anything to Delia, Victoria unaware that Delia has been following her, when she arrives to the main stairs, she realizes Delia behind her and attacks her with the knife, cutting her hand, in self defense, Delia pushes her down the stairs, Paulina and María José witness this, they check on Delia and then realize Victoria is dead. Paulina promises Delia nothing will happen to her as this was just a "tragic accident".

When police arrive they tell them the lights went down and Victoria fell down the stairs and her scream made Delia accidentally cut her hand in the kitchen, they ask Paulina to come with them to the HQ, and with the help of María José, Victoria's death was classified as an accident.

After Julian investigates and discovers Diego and Elena's agreement, he convinces her and they rescue Diego from the ranch, Elena's baby is born and is given to Diego and Julian, Elena begins a relationship with Paco, and Paulina and María José re-marry, however Victoria's will said that the house will be put on sale (causing Delia to be fired) and her wealth will go to her hairdresser, makeup artist and her two chihuahuas back in the U.S, the family accept this, "La Chiquis" who is still the legal owner of the flower shop as Victoria never signed the contract, tells Elena she has decided to return the flower shop to the family, Elena is thankful but she doesn't think her family is longer interested in the flower shop, so she decides to instead give it to Delia, who had already started her own flower business.