Irene of Greece: her birthday to reconcile the King with his family... or to see UFOs

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At the age of four, he shocked his mother, Queen Federica, when he confessed to her: "Mom, I know you long before you know me, I was upstairs with the Child Jesus, I saw you down here and I told her: 'this is the woman from the one I want to be born with."

Irene from Greece, who was already pointing out ways to become the most unique

in the European cast,

and surely a beautiful celebration awaits her, because if Don Felipe and the infantas Elena and Cristina agree on something, today estranged, it is in their

, as they nickname her for her atypical personality.

Doña Sofia's sister, who lived in India for a decade soaking up Buddhism, is

, often buys his clothing based on blouses and wide pants in markets and, every dawn, after walking through the gardens of Zarzuela, where he lives in a suite with two rooms and an office

.

His nephews also profess eternal gratitude to him for being his mother's greatest staff.

. It was when her union with Don Juan Carlos was failing and it is now with the broken family and the King father, who reconciled with his wife in old age, pushed to leave Spain," a character close to the royal family assures LOC.

This Holy Week was verified, perhaps the saddest for Doña Sofía,

because far from those boisterous years when children and grandchildren encouraged Marivent, the Kings broke their tradition of attending the Resurrection mass in the Palma cathedral, one of the few acts that Doña Sofía shared with her granddaughters, Leonor and Sofía.

On Holy Thursday she was seen with Irene in the procession of the Christ of the Blood, totally alone among the standing crowd, sitting on two chairs, a now common image.

Irene, more than a sister, has been her

and surely

since when they were little they fought to play with the only doll they had in

, which they called

.

In that country where the Greek royal family settled after the Nazi invasion of Greece, Irene was born, three years after Sofia and two after Constantine.

Irene de Grecia with her mother, her brother Constantino, her sister-in-law Ana María and her nephews Pablo and Alexia, in 1967. GTRES

The late

that one of Queen Sofía's secrets was her

, where she traveled in filthy trains full of outcasts, the underprivileged class.

who after the 1974 referendum that abolished the monarchy in Greece and deposed Constantine from the throne,

, in an

run by the guru Mahadevan, an experience that It influenced Sofia a lot.

Their relationship became closer after the death of her mother in 1981 when Irene, alone, without a country, since she was stripped of her Greek nationality, and without money,

.

The idea came from King Juan Carlos, but, extremely discreet, at first

so as not to alter the family intimacy

, protested the monarch.

Irene of Greece with her sister, Queen Sofía.GTRES

With her sister she shares almost everything

: from her childhood in Greece, to hobbies such as

, as Irene is a

who came to perform in 1969 for the Queen of England at the Royal Albert Hall in London. with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

But above all her solidarity vocation.

.

Less present now on Zarzuela's agenda, she is focused on her Reina Sofía de Ella foundation, created by her and whose current priority is to offer support to food banks after the crisis unleashed by the pandemic.

Irene, who she personally transported in a Boeing 72

, he also founded his own NGO, Mundo en Armonía, spread over more than 30 countries, to which he

that he received from the Greek Government for the expropriation of his assets in 1994.

Irene from Greece in a recent image.GTRES

Both also share a similar

Irene within the Buddhist orthodoxy, Sofia more eclectic.

if she goes to a Catholic church she prays and in a Buddhist temple she puts an incense stick," says a close friend of hers.

She is also passionate about the

so much that Doña Sofía came to attend

where

or the tarot reader Octavio Aceves participated.

They are also

, although when Irene suffered from breast cancer in 2002, she turned to traditional medicine.

Irene is considered by many to be a kind of

but

, because in addition to being a princess of Greece and Denmark, she was quite attractive.

Among them his cousin

, son of Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Michel de Orleans, son of the Count of Paris,

, and

, German ambassador with whom he used to have a picnic in the Kontiki coffee shop in Madrid.

But

, perhaps because of her atypical and independent personality, or because, as she admits, jokingly, "it's impossible to live with me."

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