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As far as we know, no one has ever asked Caroline of Monaco about Isabel Pantoja. Badly done. After the confirmation that the artist (that is: Isabel) has been invited to the famous Ball of the Rose, doubts arise: What if the Grimaldi have Sailor of lights in their disco? What if Carolina, Estefanía or Alberto start by Se me enamora el alma while they perform their daily chores (that is: nothing) in Monte Carlo ?

15 years ago, that party had an important Spanish representation. Dedicated to La Movida Madrileña, the Baile de la Rosa in 2008 was attended by Pedro Almodóvar, Luz Casal and Paco Clavel. Alaska and Mario Vaquerizo also attended. The latter, born in 1974, lived La Movida from his EGB desk, but he has not yet been born who can prevent Mario from going to a sarao he wants to go. Between the homage and the "feel a poor man at his table", that had its grace. For one night, Monaco played to be the Madrid of the early eighties.

Perhaps there is a connection between that night in 2008 and the one that today is supposed to take Isabel Pantoja to the territory of Rainier and Grace. From La Movida to La Pantoja. Would Mario Vaquerizo tell Carolina something like "you have to invite my friend Isabel"? In what language? More questions that have not been asked, more enigmas than not even the program of Íker Jiménez.

The protagonist of all this has stated that she feels conceptually very close to Princess Caroline. For Isabel, her widowhood is parallel. And that no matter how anti-bullfighting one is, it is disturbing to compare death in the arena of Paquirri with the end of Stéfano Casiraghi in one of those accidents that we prefer not to talk about too much, lest someone escape the expression "posh death".

Isabel Pantoja says that she did not quite believe that the invitation to the Ball of the Rose that she had just received was real. His brother Augustine, perpetual squire, also made fun on the matter. Who would not identify with them, freaking out when receiving such a proposal. I imagine them at that moment looking for hidden cameras around them, believing that their turn has finally come in Inocente, Inocente. It may also be that in some break from their American tour, Isabel and Agustín would have taken the opportunity to see Daggers in the Back: The Mystery of Glass Onion and were very aware of how the film begins: with a lot of invitations to a party where many things will happen and not all will be good.

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A few years ago I was circulating on Telecinco, a very shameless lady who responded to the crazy name of Paquita de Monaco. The name was put on TV, of course. Paquita's relationship with Monaco was as distant as it was real: her nephew, the saltimbanqui Adams López Peres, had been married to Princess Stephanie. Putting the "De Monaco" surname to that blonde, pinch and expansive woman was on the one hand a joke and on the other the confirmation that "De Monaco" means something. That this paisucho of, let's be clear, shit, has done its job of colonizing the collective subconscious well. "From Monaco" is better than "From Utrera" or "From Melbourne". The last we know about Paquita is that she lived almost destitute. His nephew, who was Estefanía's husband, is today "De Alicante", because in that city he now develops his work as a circus artist and businessman. It is funny: if Monaco had to be defined in two words these could well be "circus" and "company".

To define Isabel Pantoja we would need many more. Few characters are more complex and complete. Normal that, as he says in the interview where he tells about going to Monaco, they have offered him to make a documentary. It would make sense for the diva to have offers from all platforms and chains on the table to produce such a work. Of all but one. Yes, that one.

Isabel Pantoja is also television history and not only for her mythical calls to programs of the heart and other viscera. From the "I'm tired of the Rivera family!" that we have turned into an expression of common use to the judicial mess for Mi gitana, miniseries about his life, it is strange that the Pantoja does not star in any moment that involves it. She attends the Rose Ball as one more guest. It will not act, it will not interact. Because in Monaco it is Carolina who takes everything. That if he smokes, that if not, that if he goes to Chanel, that if not... With any bullshit Carolina de Monaco is always the center. To use another iconic pantojil phrase, "all cannons, please, to me." Light cannons, it is understood. It is hard to believe that Isabel Pantoja is going to be in a place as if she were a normal person.

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