Felipe and Letizia continue their official visit to Holland, accompanied by their counterparts Guillermo and Máxima. A trip punctuated by several unflattering anecdotes for Queen Letizia, who is suffering greatly due to her obsession with extreme high heels. She suffers two problems derived from this abuse, a Morton’s neuroma and a ganglion, and when the pain manifests itself it leaves her out of combat. Impeded, like she was a few hours ago at the gala dinner offered at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam: she kissed hands on a stool, and the family photo looked like a school border, with the monarchs sitting down. A setback that, added to the fight with her husband Felipe just before taking off from Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid’s military airport, is making her life miserable. And in a moment of special tensionbesides.
Apart from the lashes of the Jaime del Burgo case, Much quieter and under apparent control after a frenzy of intimate and adulterous revelations, in Zarzuela there is another growing fear. So much so that everyone begins to prepare, from television and media to the protocol services of the Royal House. The death of a Bourbon is on the table: age, health problems like those of Sofía de Grecia, and the monitoring and warning device that the emeritus has been wearing like a ring for weeks, suggest a disastrous outcome at any moment. Juan Carlos, some media reported days ago, is explaining to his intimate circle the doubts that his death causes in him. Where they will bury him, how, state honors, pomp, etc. The signs are there. Also with respect to their children.
Elena and Cristina, the closest to Juan Carlos, are on alert for any eventuality regarding their father, who does not stop crossing the planet on a private jet. And regarding Philip, and therefore to Letizia, there is a hidden detail that also indicates that they are on guard. It is located in the suitcase of the monarchs in Holland, and according to the magazine ‘Semana’, although it is a traditional rule of the British Royal House, it is surely being copied these days by the Spanish. Is about black mourning clothes, suitable for attending a funeral or burial when getting off the plane returning from the international expedition. A macabre, gloomy, but far-sighted wardrobe. With Felipe there is not so much problem, he always dresses sad and boring. But let him not catch Letizia offside at the possible funeral of her father-in-law, a lifelong close enemy. There would be a huge scandal.
These precautions when packing to go on an official trip are not the only ones rules that cause bad vibes: Letizia demands bags of blood of its kind in the hospitals of the cities it visits. It is not a problematic requirement, because it is O+, the most common, but since Juan Carlos was A-, one of the most uncommon, the norm remained in Zarzuela and the current queen has made it her own. You also need a ambulance medical treatment at your disposal, rooms available in the emergency room and on the ward… These are security measures as heads of state, yes, but it seems ‘With death on his heels’. Bad vibes.
