Ruth, Julio Iglesias’ younger and lesser-known sister, is now of age: Strange, strange, strange

‘Papuchi’, Julio Iglesias’ beloved doctor father, who used to say “strange, strange, strange”, would have turned 109 this July 26. Born in the summer of 1915, Enrique Iglesias and Chabeli’s grandfather had two children with Ronna Keith, his second wife. He married her, 29 years younger, in 2001. Before that he had been married to the mother of singer Julio Iglesias: María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. The gynecologist died on December 19, 2005. In the early 90s, when he was already 78 years old, the 28-year-old American model and philologist appeared in his life, who was in Spain doing tourism. They were together until the death of Julio Iglesias’ father in 2005, after suffering from pulmonary edema. By then, one of the children of their love, Jaime Nathaniel, had already been born. In addition, at that time, Ronna was pregnant with her other daughter, Ruth, who was born a few months later since her father never got to know her. Today she is quite an adult woman.

Ronna and her two children live a comfortable life in Florida. After the death of ‘papuchi’, Ronna decided to move to Jacksonville, Florida, with her father and her two children. There she sold the house she shared with her husband and decided to stay away from the media forever. Now she lives a quiet life in the luxurious Beach Heaven development, where she bought a house for half a million euros. Her children, Ruth and Jaime, share with their brother Julio the passion for music. It is said that Ronna leads a comfortable life, playing cards, affiliated with the democratic party and enjoying all the fortune she inherited from her husband.

Ronna had two children with Papuchi, Jaime and Ruth

Furthermore, both Ruth and Jaime have a good relationship with their brothers Julio and Carlos, who are more than sixty years older than them. Although not with their nephews, the children of Julio Iglesias and Miranda Rijnsburger, despite the fact that they live nearby.

This July 26th the Iglesias family is celebrating. It is not only the anniversary of Papuchi’s death. Ruth, Julio Iglesias’ younger sister, the fruit of the marriage that Dr. Iglesias Puga had with the young woman, is also coming of age. American model and philologist Ronna Keitt, and from whom another child was born, Jaime Nathaniel. The singer’s siblings have always led a life away from the media spotlight, as their mother occupied a discreet place when she was widowed and returned to her country of origin. However, on many occasions someone from the clan has acknowledged that Julio Iglesias has managed to maintain his relationship over time with both Ronna and his siblings despite living in different cities. Julio José Jr. acknowledged: “My father and Miranda do have contact with Ronna, but neither my brothers nor I do. Don’t ask me why, because I don’t even know the reason myself,” explains to us.

Julio Iglesias’ siblings, at least when they were children, seemed to have inherited the same artistic interests, and while Jaime was already a piano virtuoso at the age of 10, Ruth was the one who wanted to dedicate herself to singing. We don’t know if she has succeeded, because her life is so discreet that there is no trace of her even on social media, although her mother has often told how the children liked to go see Julio at his concerts when they were little.

Kidnapped by ETA

Ruth grew up with a mother who did everything for her and her brother, but without the role model of a father, whom she has been able to get to know in depth through Ronna’s memories and the memoirs he himself wrote, “Iron Will”, in 2004. You surely know that he always stood out for being a very open and friendly man, with a reputation as a womanizer, and that he never lost his sense of humor despite having survived a terrible episode in his life when he was kidnapped by ETA in 1982 and was held captive for twenty-one days. A year after that ordeal, he separated from his wife, Rosario, Julio Iglesias’ mother. From then on, “Papuchi” would become a very striking character in the world of gossip, because he did not hide his romances with girls who were twice his age. One of them was Begoña, a nurse who was almost 40 years older than him, but soon his dalliances ended because at 65 he fell madly in love with an American called Ronna Keitt, a 28-year-old model who had just finished her studies in Hispanic Philology and was spending some time in our country to improve her Spanish. The two fell in love and after a long relationship they married in 2001 in a secret ceremony. They first had a son, whom they named Jaime Nathaniel, and almost two years later Ronna became pregnant again.

Her daughter, Ruth, born on July 26, 2006, unfortunately never got to know her father, who died seven months earlier of pulmonary edema at the age of 90. After the doctor’s death, Ronna returned to Florida, where she settled with her children. Thanks to the fortune she inherited from her husband, she was able to raise her children and lead a comfortable life, as she also has a house in Philadelphia and another in Peñíscola, where she spends many summers so that her children do not lose their Spanish roots. Who knows if that is where Ruth is blowing out her 18 candles today.