Doña Letizia’s brother-in-law (Robert Gavin Bonnar, at the presentation of his book): “Sex is power, it is what moves the world”

“Sorry for the delay. “My wife was combing my eyebrows.” This is how the presentation of The fourth estate (Ediciones Agoreiro), the sixth book of Robert Gavin Bonnar (Belfast, Ireland 1967), the lawyer who since 2018 has shared his life with the queen’s sister Mrs. Letizia. Telma Ortiz He was naturally at the event, held at the El Corte Inglés Cultural Space in Callao (Madrid), and shared a front row seat with the United Kingdom ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott.

Bonnar, who describes his novel as a “thriller”, the meeting filled with personal anecdotes, perhaps to liven up a talk that dealt with a dense and complex topic: international geopolitics. A matter in which this lawyer with 30 years of experience behind him – as he explains on his website – after graduating in Law from Queen’s University in his hometown and practicing in the United Kingdom and Ireland, he specialized in libel. and came to represent artists like “Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez, Mark Anthony, Whitney Houston either Reese witherspoon”- has become an expert. “As a child, I remember leaving the house on Saturday morning with my grandmother and my cousins, and being surprised by an explosion. Seeing a person covered in blood and dust while my grandmother decided to go ahead with her plan, make the purchase. Life had to go on,” recalled the also philanthropist, who is the father of three children: Cathal and floriborn from his marriage to the singer of The Corrs, Sharon Corr -whom she divorced in 2019 after 18 years of union-, and Erin, born in August 2021 from his relationship with Telma Ortiz. “In Northern Ireland, in the end, political dialogue triumphed, a peace process that worked was imposed. “I don’t see that will today among world leaders, who only talk about launching missiles and winning wars,” said Bonnar, who has tried to condense those opinions in the novel.

So, The fourth estate – which, as the author clarified, is not the press but its protagonists, who stand up to the other three economic powers, namely: “The United States, Russia and China” – analyzes through an “adventure” plot the change of era that , in Bonnar’s opinion, we would be going through. To explain it, the author uses numerous action and sex scenes “There is a lot of sex in this novel, yes. Sex is what moves the world. “We need much more if we want to reverse the demographic crisis that we are suffering in Europe and China,” he said with humor. “Capitalism is entering the disaster phase, or surveillance, according to which if you destroy everything, you win; and if you rebuild it, too. If you walk around Beijing you will see camera trees. When you check in at a hotel, the front desk employee knows everything about you. He is a very harmful model, but very effective. The book talks about that, and its traumatic consequences. Trauma and sex are closely linked,” argued Bonnar, who also believes that the situation is especially serious for Europe and the United States, which are on the verge of losing international leadership in favor of the so-called emerging countries, or BRICS+.

“Today there are billion-dollar contracts between these countries in which the dollar is explicitly rejected. That’s going to have consequences. I don’t want to scare you, but I want to scare you. In Europe we are in a very weak moment. We have outsourced security to the Americans; production, to the Chinese and, until recently, energy, to the Russians,” warned Bonnar, who gave a most eloquent example to illustrate his thesis: “Today, no ship can cross the Red Sea without being attacked by the Houthis financed by Iran, who as soon as they see a ship with a flag they don’t like, launch a missile at it. So maritime traffic is diverted through South Africa, with the consequent increase in costs… And the products we buy here, at El Corte Inglés. In this way, geopolitics ends up knocking on our door,” developed Bonnar, who also highlighted the fact that the Western media barely pays attention to the tensions in the China Sea, in Myanmar or in Syria, despite the fact that they are claim thousands of victims and have a direct influence on the economy and security. “I just read a very interesting interview in Time Magazine in which the president of the United States Joe Biden He claims his country’s role as the leading power. But we are in a phase of lack of confidence in the dollar, its economy accumulates a gigantic debt… I am not optimistic,” he warned.