Greece The family of Felipe VI meets for the first time in three years
Opinion Letizia and Sofía, two reconciled Queens and an Emeritus on their Way to Calvary
The relationship between Felipe VI and Don Juan Carlos has gone through several points in these two and a half years, the time that has elapsed since the father of the Head of State announced his decision to go to Abu Dhabi.
However, something that the King was clear about was that in pursuit of exemplarity and having "a renewed monarchy for a new time" it was necessary to
create an institutional firewall
with Don Juan Carlos.
That is why in the three public meetings that have taken place between the two sovereigns of democracy,
no image of them
together has been captured.
However, Tatoi's funeral has shown that the positions, at least in the family environment of a father and a son, have become closer in recent times.
The Greek channel Star broadcast this Sunday in its news a video of Tatoi filmed with a mobile.
In it, you can see how Don Felipe approaches Juan Carlos I, whom
he says goodbye with two kisses and a hug.
According to commentators, the image corresponds to the moment in which the King and his wife, Queen Letizia, left the Grecia summer palace to go to Spain.
During the first months of Juan Carlos in Abu Dhabi, his relationship with his son
was very tense.
The former monarch left Spain convinced that it would be a temporary decision, but the problems with the Prosecutor's Office and the scandals that had been discovered in recent times made his return very difficult.
The only way to restore prestige to the Crown was for the Emeritus to let himself be advised by his son, but at that time he did not understand it.
The months passed and Don Juan Carlos,
aggrieved
after Don Felipe traveled to Abu Dhabi and did not visit him, communicated to his environment his decision to visit Sanxenxo.
The trip, with great public display, ended with an eleven-hour stopover in Zarzuela.
There, Felipe VI spoke to his father about him as head of state.
They held a "long conversation time" that lasted several hours and in which the King exposed to Juan Carlos the damage caused to the monarchy.
Since then the attitude of the Emeritus is completely different.
Resigned to living in Abu Dhabi and with frequent visits from Spain, he has now assumed that it
is impossible to return
to our country, but he does not blame Don Felipe for it.
His environment assures that they
speak frequently
and the first image of them together confirms that on the one hand there is the institutional and, on the other, the family.
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