Letizia and Sofía, two reconciled Queens and an Emeritus on their Way to Calvary

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The great art galleries of the world, in a very prominent place our Prado Museum, are founded on the

, that accumulation over centuries of magnificent paintings in which the great portraits of sovereigns and their families that fulfilled various functions, including Of course, political objectives.

Propaganda, we would call it today, in its broadest sense.

Through the

, kings from different eras conveyed an entire idea of ​​majesty and highlighted the

.

Photography, with its great immediacy and extraordinary diffusion, serves similar purposes today, in the midst of the

era .

And, for so many implicit and explicit messages that it transmits, it is impossible not to marvel at a photograph like the one captured this Monday at the Tatoi estate, just a few moments before the burial of the body of Constantine II, the last king of the Hellenes, took place.

and

are the protagonists

, each one holding the arm of

.

And, in the background, walking with as much effort as Jesus in his agonizing ascent to Golgotha, a Don Juan Carlos in a state of

who, as if out of a painting from the

, seems to suffer for so many sins.

The framing of the photo is so extraordinary, the camera shot so sublime, that not to be missed or missing in the image, still behind the Emeritus, his eldest grandson,

, who shows his face with a circumspect countenance.

We are facing a photo that is as longed for as it is absolutely necessary for the Spanish monarchy.

is condensed

.

An event as unfortunate as the death of Constantine of Greece, the great sentimental cane for his sister Doña Sofía, who today is left a little more alone, a little more orphaned of affections, has been necessary for practically the entire family of Felipe VI to have reunited after three years.

And Doña Letizia, who in addition to being an exemplary queen will not have forgotten the ways of her profession as a journalist, which are hardly ever forgotten, has known and wanted to find

.

The photo, of great aesthetic beauty, has unimposed humanity.

And in it stands out the dignity that the Emeritus radiates, with her face contorted by the loss of her much-loved brother but without losing a bit of regal bearing, comforted by a son who has always felt adoration for her and by a daughter-in-law who does not care. It deserves to continue ad infinitum installed in the caricature left by that unfortunate scuffle between the two Queens at the Easter mass in Palma in 2018.

It is known that Doña Sofía and Doña Letizia do not have the most cordial of relations.

But it is equally true that both respect each other.

And that the Consort even feels

way in which her mother-in-law has served as queen for so many decades, even though they do not share the way in which so many scandals within the family that have subjected the monarchical institution in the last decade to a very delicate and serious reputational crisis, only overcome, and not without difficulty, thanks to the

at this stage that he himself defined in his proclamation as that of "a Monarchy renewed for a new time".

We have seen the two Queens together many times since that sad day in 2018. But this iconic Tatoi photo, with the overwhelming background of the most rigorous mourning, seems to want to

.

Of which we are all privileged witnesses, to see if we find out about it in a happy time, the photo also comes to tell us.

Do not forget, also, that Doña Letizia also wanted on Sunday night that an image, hers holding the arm of

, the wife of Prince

, would serve to proclaim to the four winds another forgiveness, another reconciliation, In short, to put an end to another of those silly conflicts that both entertain the public and unfairly wear down the image of the Queen.

Doña Sofía, even with a very reduced institutional agenda since her husband's abdication in 2014, is

.

She maintains high popularity ratings, as highlighted by the surveys carried out periodically by different media about the institution.

And, with the same professionalism as on the first day, he continues to meet all the House's requests and provide good services, such as his recent visit to the Vatican to represent the Crown at the funeral of

, just his last destination before the sad trip that would take him to Athens to say goodbye to one of the most important people in his life, King Constantine.

Don Juan Carlos, meanwhile, supported by two assistants, and walking with infinite difficulty and effort along the stony and very neglected path that leads to the Tatoi royal cemetery, as the photo clearly shows us, has not yet reached the last station of his Way of the Cross.

And it is not unlikely that he will miss out.

The same distances between father and son that the photo shows are

.

It cannot be otherwise as long as the King Emeritus continues to be a potential bomb for the reign of his son, although it is true that it does not help the Crown that

of the person who was key piece in the democratic recovery in Spain.

And once again we pay attention to that unusually serious face of a Froilán who, right now, as in the photo, is following in the footsteps of his grandfather, also leaving for a while in Abu Dhabi, given that

.

We are not before the painting of any of the great painters of the Court of the Renaissance.

But yes, before a magnificent photograph that condenses the entire current state of our royal family.

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