The journalist publishes a new book on 20N, 'Anecdotas de oro', lived throughout 50 years of profession. They are countless and have a point of malice
Jaime Peñafiel's Week: Dogs Week
Jaime Peñafiel's week: the Marquise de Franco wanted the Mercedes
The living room of Jaime Peñafiel's house is a collage with dozens of peñafieles . Here, in this photo, is Peñafiel with Sha Reza Palevi , "I wouldn't even know how to tell you the hand of how many tyrants I have shaken." In this other, Peñafiel appears with Noor from Jordan , "the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." There, on the table, a tormented Julio Iglesias and with arcadian mane goes to Peñafiel's wedding. This is Felipe González with Peñafiel, "if I had to stay with a president it would be with him", and next to it is one by Adolfo Suárez with Peñafiel, "his wife was the only first lady who deserved to be because he didn't want to be, it took him three days to get to Madrid when he was named president. "
Peñafiel is especially proud of a somewhat discolored snapshot in which Peñafiel appears chatting with the Duke of Edinburgh : "When I took her son Carlos from England , he didn't give credit. If my father hates journalists! See if he hates them that one day when he disembarked in Gibraltar he was heard how he said to one of his assistants: 'Help me distinguish who are the monkeys and who are the journalists.' He used to carry some peanuts in his pockets and threw them on the ground when he saw an informant He was talking to me for two hours because I told him he looked like my father and that moved him. "
The sun enters the room from the moment it rises until it sets. It is on a very high floor that dominates the University City. The orientation is perfect. If the horizon is good, it extends west beyond the Casa de Campo. There are showcases with souvenirs from his travels, a VHS video buried under the tapes of My Royal Weddings and a replica of the famous red briefcase in which official documents arrive to Isabel II . Netflix gave it to him for promoting his The Crown series. There are also many pictures. One of Fauvist influences painted by the Duchess of Alba. The prettiest, perhaps also the most valuable, almost sells it to relieve a rejection of Montoro "for paying taxes as journalists had always paid, what a fine."
Half an hour ago, a messenger brought Jaime Peñafiel his new book , edited by La Esfera, entitled Anecdotas de oro . They are countless and almost all have a point of malice , which is fun. There is, for example, when he dressed as a priest to attend the orthodox wedding of Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía in Athens: "I worked at Europa Press, which was Opus Dei, and one of the foreign ministers of the embassy had commissioned me to wear a cassock, "he laughs a lot telling these stories of a reporter. "I picked it up at a tailor's shop in Gran Vía and carried it in my suitcase. When I realize that they won't let me go to the cathedral of San Dionisio, I think, fuck, I'm going to wear it. When I arrive to the square and I see all the Spanish press in the square I think, fuck, my mother, knowing these and the relationship between us, any journalist denounces me. Then I see that Aristotle Onassis is going to enter and I take advantage that everyone is attentive to him to sneak in. Once inside, Juan Carlos looked at me and winked at me. "
It has more stories of that quinqui and lucrative journalism , in which it is difficult to see someone in such refined ways. He descojona when he counts them. Like that time when Jesus Hermida and he assaulted the home of Fabiola of Belgium and took his diary. "Fabiola was then not going anymore. The regime was using it to his advantage. She was announcing her engagement by surprise in Brussels and her brother, Jaime de Mora y Aragón, upon payment of a dinerete, opens the house and we enter Hermida and I registering everything in the drawer of the bedside table, a little book appears that puts My diary, we take it away, when he finds out, Fabiola goes to the Minister of the Interior, Camilo Alonso Vega, whom they called Don Camulo, and me they take me out of this pajama house at night and take me to the General Directorate of Security. " Now he reproaches King Philip VI for forbidding Queen Letizia to write a diary. Perhaps Felipe can claim that if he has dissuaded her from writing it, it is precisely so that no one can steal it.
Jaime Peñafiel is one of the few journalists who can talk today about the intimate Franco , who silently stroked his shotgun between fallow deer and fallow deer. There is something more atypical in Peñafiel, perhaps he is already the only journalist who dares to recognize his relationship with "pure and hard Francoism", the possibility with which he exercised his profession and the lack of heroism of a Spain between resigned, fearful and Francoist There are too many journalists whose biography begins mysteriously in 1975 so as not to surprise the naturalness with which Peñafiel describes the contradictions of the journalist who reports under a dictatorship . "I assume it, I have been in this profession for more than 50 years , part of it passed during the Franco regime. What freed me was that I worked in an evasion magazine, so I did not think. Nobody can teach me that I have said that Franco He was a great man or, as Carmen Rigalt wrote, that he is the grandfather we all would like to have. Newspaper libraries are the conscience of the twentieth century, I assume everything. Some people have a terrible time when they remind him of what he wrote. " The exhumation of Franco's body causes him displeasure. Twist the gesture, not annoyed by the question, but by having to talk about things of the dead: "If I published the list of those I saw crying at his funeral, they would fall ashamed face", and then repeat a oath to which usually resort when someone comes with stories, "I say: oh, do not force me, do not force me", and drag that and lift your finger, threatening.
When this journalist signed for Hello! At the rate of 700,000 pesetas - from then on - a month, Prince Juan Carlos confessed, somewhat astonished, that he and his wife lived with a salary of 70,000 pesetas, ten times less. At 87 he continues to sign contracts, some very nutritious. That is, since he began to win real pasta, he has never earned less than a king. "It is indecent that at my age I continue working, as much as one of 40 is unemployed."
The Prince Juan Carlos card for the face
It is also true that it continues to cause fires and that is quoted. Not too long ago, he wrote that King Juan Carlos had run over a cyclist when he was a minor and driving without a license, that everything was arranged with a hand by Alfonso Armada , who when he learned the person in charge of his surveillance, General Martínez Campos, rode in anger but in the end, convinced that it would be difficult to prevent him from taking the car, he gave him a driving license on his face . "The general was very hard with Juan Carlos, he wanted to have a detail with him and he put the card in a very small envelope and that envelope in a larger one and that in a larger one ... Juanito was opening them one after another and at his face lit up. " Despite this detail, inconceivable today, General Martínez Campos' hardness was such and his vigilance so fierce, that it served Peñafiel to snap him on a set to one who was the illegitimate son of Don Juan Carlos: "Yes, man, when you were conceived, the King was going to be like dusting your mother. " Peñafiel is linking one story with another until the final crush: "It is that, let's see, Don Juan Carlos has not had illegitimate children , that I can assure you. It was by pure luck but it is so. With the fuck that Juan Carlos has been a miracle that has not filled Spain with bastards. But it is like that. "
In his book, Peñafiel describes a very literary moment of his relationship with the Monarch. When after he published a trilogy about the royal family that caused him a dislike, the King asked him: "Why don't you love me, Jaime?" The point is that he says he loves him, so much that he says he would like him not to have abdicated, but his is a love that I did not want for me, because it does not save a detail of the story of how the engagement ring which ended in the finger of Doña Sofía , the night before the request, was lost between the sheets of the bed of a room of a Roman pension, paid and reserved by Countess Olghina de Robilant.
I have warned Peñafiel that I am very much in favor of Queen Letizia and it seems that he is having fun. He insists very seriously that he always recognized "what had to be recognized". Like the good education and discipline of his daughters or everything that the King has improved his prosody. He also likes to be a woman of character and not be overwhelmed. He still has empathy to recognize that "entering a royal family is very hard and entering a royal family where there are two infantas like Elena and Cristina is sailor cloth. Or you enter as Letizia entered the Royal House, or they devour you, they annul you and you have to recognize that courage " . And yet, because he always has a however for Letizia, Peñafiel came to ask Félix Sanz Roldán, director of the National Intelligence Center between 2009 and 2019, if someone had commissioned a Letizia investigation to the CNI when Felipe announced his commitment . He argues that if so today would not be marriage.
The last time the journalist and the former journalist coincided was in the celebration of the XXV anniversary of the foundation of EL MUNDO. They met face to face , Peñafiel held out his hand and for a moment he thought it would not correspond to the greeting. He did it, he approached and said only: "We haven't seen each other for ten years." His previous meeting was very famous. She approached him for something he had written. "It was so unpleasant, so unpleasant ..." it shows that he will never forgive him. Your personal relationship is reduced to those two meetings. Although it seems incredible.
The taxi driver's granddaughter
What, according to him, she does not forgive him is that he insists so much that he is the granddaughter of a taxi driver, "when his grandfather was the best, a fantastic guy and that of a taxi driver is a very noble profession." Nor was it the only thing he said about her. This is a version that is all benefit, because at the same time that you exonerate him for the damage inflicted, he serves to launch a new bolt to the Queen, the classist. The truth is that Peñafiel has popularized too many harmful stories about the consort so that you can tell which one was the one that predisposed her against him.
As now the semovientes have become the new children and nothing moves as much as a dog, several people who learned that I would talk to Peñafiel moved me to ask him about the end of Pushkin . It is not about the duel in which the beloved Russian poet died, but about the eviction of a schnauzer much loved by Philip VI. "That puppy was what he wanted most apart from his mother. And Letizia put him in paws in the mountains of El Pardo, that some vermin had to kill him and eat him. With a cruelty ... Then she sent much, now sends much more , and Felipe was so in love that he endured it. My dog is not taken from me! "
Peñafiel is so funny because it is loaded with stories and because it is also evil. He also enjoys evil people, so he defines Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, Jesus Aguirre or the Duke of Edinburgh. When he talks about someone who has fun, he adds: "He is very evil." He is also a charming and enthusiastic person, who continues to address journalists with the “partner” union. And, above all, he is someone capable of filling 300 pages of amazing anecdotes and still holding on with a rogue point that is worth more for what Shut up for what counts.
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