Marina Pina
Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-14:21
King Juan Carlos I will travel to Madrid next weekend to attend the wedding of José Luis Martínez Almeida and
Teresa Urquijo.
Those are his plans since last Monday, when he made the final decision to go and informed the couple. The information, reported by
Okdiario
and
El Debate,
has been
confirmed
by EL MUNDO. Felipe VI's father intends to attend Teresa Urquijo's wedding, set foot in Madrid for the third time since he left Spain and meet many relatives whom he has not seen for a long time.
Juan Carlos I has thought a lot about this decision, not so much because of the desire to attend the wedding, but because of the fact that the wedding is also a political event for the Popular Party, as it will unite the Bourbons with the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez. Almeida. Precisely the Crown has wanted to escape its political use in recent years, and that is why Don Juan Carlos was asked to avoid, for example, traveling to Sanxenxo during electoral times. The Emeritus, however, once
all the pending legal cases have been closed
, finds no reason to stop attending this link.
The wedding will be held next Saturday in the parish of San Francisco de Borja and will bring together the leadership of the Popular Party and the Spanish aristocracy. Five hundred guests are expected at a wedding in which the bride, Teresa Urquijo, is the granddaughter of
Teresa de Borbón,
first cousin of Juan Carlos I and sister of
Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias,
the deceased Infante of Spain whose father of Felipe VI he considered almost his brother. The wedding is therefore expected to be attended by the entire Spanish branch of the House of Two Sicilias, headed by
Pedro
, Duke of Calabria.