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This past Sunday,
Felipe González
was honest with Jordi Évole, acknowledging that
he had not been a good father
:
"I have been a father who has loved his children, but being a good father means spending a lot of time with them, which I have not done," he confessed.
On the contrary,
he does consider himself a good husband:
"I am not difficult as a couple, I am respectful, tolerant and I think that people need their space."
The former president has married twice, with
two very different women
and in very different life circumstances.
His first wife was
Carmen Romero
(75), the daughter of a medical colonel and
from a conservative Sevillian family,
whose parents were totally opposed to her courtship with Felipe, an active left-wing militant and the son of a cowboy from the humble neighborhood of Buenavista.
González and his first wife, Carmen Romero.GTRES
But Carmen, who was studying
Philology
and was also very committed to anti-
Francoism
as a faculty delegate, did not back down and
they were married by proxy
in 1969 and later by the church in Espartinas.
After Felipe became
leader of socialism
in Suresnes, in 1974, the arrival of democracy led to his rise to leader of the opposition, becoming an
iconic couple
as they embodied the liberal ideal of the time.
They were already parents of their two oldest children,
Pablo and David, and María,
the girl, would be born shortly after, in 1978, they lived in a small apartment in the NiñoJesús neighborhood in Madrid and Carmen
was a literature teacher
at the Calderón de la Barca institute.
But her arrival at La Moncloa in 1982 was a
cataclysm in her existence,
especially for Carmen, who was a groundbreaking consort, and she continued to teach, fighting to maintain her space.
Later, in 1989, with Felipe in power, she made a splash by
appearing in the elections
and being a deputy for Cádiz for three terms.
After his
painful separation
from her in 2008, she was also an MEP, a stage until she
suffered from breast cancer,
from which she managed to recover separated her from politics.
She today has a quiet
retirement
in the home of Somosaguas that she shared with Felipe.
"I don't know what it means to be happy,
but at least ours is a balanced marriage, I respect his independence and he respects mine. I have never liked doing projects for the future, perhaps because of that anguish of thinking that one day they would be shot Felipe", confessed Romero in an interview during his time in Moncloa.
The socialist, together with Mar García Vaquero.GTRES
It was in 2008, with González already retired from politics, when the politician's romance with
Mar García Vaquero,
an attractive economist
18 years younger,
divorced and mother of two daughters -Lucía and Micaela-, with whom
he married in the intimacy in 2012.
Sister-in-law of businessman Pedro Trapote, owner of Joy Eslava, she and Felipe met through
Luis García Cereceda,
owner of the La Finca urbanization and the Zalacaín restaurant.
Today she lives almost permanently with Mar
on a farm in Guadalupe,
Cáceres, which she acquired in 2013, where in addition to attending to his commitments as former president,
she grows bonsai, carves precious stones
and welcomes friends and family, because he enjoys working as a grandfather to his six grandchildren.
His breakup with Carmen Romero was traumatic, and
they have no relationship,
their children being their only link.
Pablo González Romero, eldest son of the former politician. GTRES
Except for María, who, working with her father, has had
a certain public projection,
the elders live in
total anonymity.
"I talk a lot with my father, but never about politics, my children and our lives. He is an excellent grandfather, he
enjoys his grandchildren a lot,
and he cooks them a potato omelette," Pablo assured LOC in one of his
few interviews
.
The first-born of the former president, who turns half a century in 2022,
never married, although he has two daughters,
Micaela and Ecne, the result of his relationship with an Ecuadorian.
He started Physics and Computer Science but did not finish and ended up
setting up a
computer company, Gnubila, which he sold, later serving as
an executive
of the company.
A fan of photography and oriental philosophy, he lives in a flat
in the center of Madrid.
The former president and his daughter María.GTRES
His brother
David
, born in 1973, is the bohemian of the family:
a painter by profession,
he lives in a small town in Cadiz,
Castellar de la Frontera,
and lives in a house owned by his father where he holds exhibitions.
He is
divorced and is the father of a daughter.
It is María, 44 years old, the closest to her father, in fact she was
the only one who attended his wedding with Mar,
but she also maintains a close relationship with her mother, since she lives very close to her, in Somosaguas.
Married to the
Canarian economist
Eric Berganza, a wedding that took place at the Zalacaín restaurant in 2005, they are
the parents of three children.
Graduated in law, she worked for years with the former president, in the
consulting firm
that she created, Ialcop, and also in the Felipe González Foundation, but in 2015 she became independent from her father's guardianship, joining
the Ayala law firm as a partner. tower.
As she herself indicates, one of her parents' great concerns was that their children could develop their lives outside the media spotlight.
"Anonymity is the best gift
my father has given us," said María.
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