- Discreet.The life of the Infanta Elena, the closest daughter to Don Juan Carlos
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If the Infanta Elena and Jaime de Marichalar had not been divorced for 10 years, this Wednesday, March 18, they would celebrate their silver anniversary in style. Surely to escape the event, the Duchess of Lugo - the title was lost by Jaime when she divorced, she did not - decided to embark in early March on a tour of Latin America that has so far taken her to Puerto Rico and Panama. The objective was to supervise, as director of the social area of the Mapfre foundation, the solidarity initiatives that these countries are developing.
Despite the fact that there has been total silence here about the trip, on the other side of the pond his presence has been an event. In Panama, where she stayed for four days last week , she was accompanied by the first lady, Yazmin de Cortizo. With her, he visited the children's road education park, the "fire prevention house" or the school of friends of Real Madrid in the Omar park. Dressed in jeans and a hat, Elena de Borbón was in her sauce handing out t-shirts signed by the meringue stars to children at risk of exclusion.
Travel to Latin America
His journeys through Latin America are habitual, but not even the Mapfre press department advertises them. Partly due to the infancy's obsession with privacy and perhaps to prevent her role from raising suspicions in Zarzuela, given that along with her sister Cristina she was excluded from the royal family and official life after the proclamation of Don Felipe.
Nothing to do with that media Elena de Borbón 25 years ago, whose link with Jaime de Marichalar copied covers of half the world . They met three years earlier in Paris, where the Earl of Ripalda's son worked at Credit Suisse and conquered the Infanta at her insistence. "He did not stop until he convinced me," she revealed before her banquet held at the Seville cathedral on March 18, 1995 before 1,500 guests, including leaders and royalty from all over the planet.
It was a historic day that brought Seville to the streets, as it was the first royal marriage since the reign of Alfonso XIII. In addition, then the monarchy of Don Juan Carlos, previous appearance of urdangarines and corinnas, enjoyed unanimous acceptance. A highlight was the entrance to the cathedral of the Infanta with her royal father and godfather, who had his right arm in a cast from a fall skiing in Candanchú. The anecdote was that the bride forgot to ask for the protocol to come to Don Juan Carlos before yes, I want to . Later, the agape that took place in the palace of the Reales Alcázares added a touch to the event.
His pygmalion
Elena and Jaime, whom the monarch made dukes of Lugo, were consolidating as a couple, especially after their children Felipe Juan Froilán was born on July 17, 1998 and Victoria Federica on September 9, 2000. Marichalar, who moved like a fish in the water by palatial environments, it seemed ideal for a previously somewhat feral infant with whom she acted as a pygmalion, adding her to the lists of elegant, increasing the media prominence of the luxury dukes.
Everything went wrong after the very serious stroke that Jaime suffered in December 2001, which filled him with sequels, paralyzing the left side of his body. It also unleashed a crisis that led to an excessive desire by the saraos to escape from their disease together with extravagances, such as wearing gaudy scarves or fans, which the Infanta did not assimilate.
NY
Her stay in New York in 2003, promoted by Don Juan Carlos, so that she could focus on her rehabilitation, accentuated their differences, since while the Infanta was teaching children from the Bronx , Jaime was initiated into fashion by the hand of Bernard Arnault and LMVH, a luxury multinational of which he is a director.
On November 13, 2007 Zarzuela announced her "temporary cessation of coexistence", promoted by the infant despite the opposition of her husband, who was before her divorce in November 2009 . Marichalar remained alone in his triplex of the Madrid Golden Mile, acquired by inheritance from his Aunt Coco, which was left half empty, as the princess took her wedding gifts and her children, for which her father fought until achieving joint custody.
After the separation, the couple lived very tense moments; Jaime complained that he could not speak to his children, since the infant, who initially rented a vest in the Fuente del Berro neighborhood and later bought a flat in the Niño Jesús neighborhood, did not put them on the phone. The tension subsided, but never led to a friendly relationship, as their treatment is currently distant and limited to issues of their children.
They avoid coinciding and posing together in the few celebrations to which they attend, for example, the communion of Victoria Federica, where they simply gave themselves peacefully. Jaime also did not appear in any photo of Froilán's graduation at the Blue Ridge in Virginia, in May 2017, to which Elena went with Doña Sofía. The same happened last April fair, when Victoria Federica, Vic sponsored the exhibition of hooks in La Maestranza that Elena witnessed from the box and Marichalar sitting in the audience with her brother Amalio. At the opening of their daughter, held in June last year at the La Escorzonera farm, they entered separately.
Little remains also of the media role of the couple , since both, who have not sentimentally remade their lives, have made discretion their motto. Jaime hardly appears in the press, although he attends fashion events, because in addition to being a director of LMVH and Loewe, he is a Fendi director and has set up a company, B-Corner, made to measure tailoring. The last time it caught the media attention was on February 17, when it coincided for the first time with the Kings at the national research awards: one of the winners was Dr. Valentín Fuster, the architect of his rehabilitation in New York. There was no meeting with the monarchs, although Jaime's relationship with Doña Letizia is cordial , something that Infanta, who does not have great chemistry with her sister-in-law, finds it difficult to digest.
Released from Zarzuela's agenda and from Marichalar's aesthetic dictatorship, which betrays her sometimes gray and somewhat neglected hair and her eagerness for casual clothing, Elena lives in a placid semi-anonymity focused on her work at Mapfre, in his father Don Juan Carlos, with whom he acts as a guide in his travels, and especially in his children, source of sleeplessness
Froilán, who jumped into the media for his antics and his little fondness for driving elbows , is currently second in business administration at the CIS and is the "intermittent" boyfriend of Mar Torres, who has assumed prominence as an influencer .Vic (19) He also studies at the CIS and stands out for his boho chic clothing, his fondness for discos and his romances with the bullfighter Gonzalo Caballero and now with Dj Jorge Bárcenas. Fourth and fifth in the line of succession to the Crown, Froilán and Vic are today worthy heirs of the media role of their parents.
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