The fight between photographers and escorts at Felipe's last dinner in Mallorca and the private trip of the Kings in the middle of misgovernment wear down his image
The double farewell of the Royal Family of Mallorca
This is not a simple summer for the King. The failed investiture of Pedro Sánchez in July and the increasingly probable threat of electoral repetition in November once again strain the institutional seams of our system. Spain has been mired in misgovernment and political paralysis for many months . Against this background, Zarzuela conveyed in July the message that the Royal Family vacations would be conditioned by political events and exceptional circumstances.
However, this scenario of uncertainty has not prevented the Kings from enjoying a period of secret private vacations , maintaining what has become a tradition that they are not willing to give up. The decision of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia to escape with their daughters to an unknown place has not been without controversy. In the forums of the Network dedicated to the discussion of monarchical matters, criticism has been triggered, since it is considered inappropriate in the current context . And in almost all written media the debate on the right of the Kings has been stoked not to enjoy private vacations - that is, without official activity - but secret ones, which at times when the Crown is examined with magnifying glass supposes some erosion for the institution.
All the royal families in our environment enjoy a few days off in the summer without institutional events. But in almost all cases it is reported with transparency of the chosen places. Thus, this summer the kings of Sweden have returned to the French Riviera; Carlos from England was waiting for a few days in Corfu (Greece) to meet there with his wife, Camilla, who enjoys its beaches in August; and Alberto de Monaco is in Croatia, to name just a few examples. All dynasties spend at least part of the summer in their official residences, as do the Bourbon in Marivent, but if they move to other destinations, they realize this , such as when for example the Belgian Kings enjoy the Camino de Santiago or the Heiress Victoria of Sweden from the Andalusian beaches.
In the case of the Headquarters of the Spanish State, everything is opacity . Only after the time, thanks almost always to indiscreet citizens who recognize them in their hiding places, their getaways to Croatia , the Côte d'Azur, Portugal or Greek islands such as Corfu are known, where they made stops in 2018.
Absolute secrecy
As LOC has known, the intention of the King is to reappear in public next Monday or Tuesday to visualize that private vacations have been reduced to just over a week.
It does not help the image of the Crown, in any case, the abrupt way with which this period began. Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, along with their two daughters, starred in their last public appearance in Mallorca on Thursday , August 8 , when they went to the Son Marroig House Museum, in the Tramuntana mountains. In an informal way he ended his stay on the island. And that same day the Queen with the two little ones, together with her security entourage, left Mallorca. Hours earlier, the sovereign had declared that her stay there was "better every year" , although it does not seem that she stopped thinking what a Princess of Asturias told her as a Princess of Asturias in 2010: " Do you think this is a vacation ? "
To everyone's surprise, El Diario de Mallorca announced that the King had dinner, two days later, on Saturday 10, with several friends, including his intimate Jaime Anglada, in the restaurant El Caballito de Mar. Since the surroundings of the Monarch wanted to keep in the most absolute secrecy that the Head of State followed in Palma, the bodyguards staged a strong encounter with several photographers, to prevent Don Felipe from being portrayed. The rifi-rafe caused great discomfort. It was inexplicable that he wanted to hide that the King was still in Mallorca , as if that had something abnormal. Unless the wish was not to be spoken of that the Monarch enjoyed without the Queen. In the end, so much opacity helps little.
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