Sonsoles Ónega reveals the secrets of her friendship with Queen Letizia: “She told me about Felipe in an SMS”

The brand new winner of the Planeta 2023 award visited this Thursday Joaquin in The noob to talk about work, love and Queen Letizia, one of her best friends. They met working at CNN+ and have been together since then. Such is the trust between them that Onega sleeps He was one of the first people to know about the romance between the Asturian journalist and the then prince philip: “Yes, he told me before it was public. Then there was no WhatsApp, it was SMS.”

Fernando Ónega’s daughter remembers: “That was a shock for the entire profession, we didn’t know what Don Felipe was looking for in the union”, he said between laughs. Their friendship remains intact today and he assures: “Letizia has not changed anything, she remains the same. She is a very good friend”.

Sonsoles has also talked about his new love, a 52-year-old financier named Juan with whom he starred in a romantic getaway to Brazil last August: “I have a partner but secretly”, he has confessed. “I’m very happy. He is my zero viewer, premium viewer, the one who tells me what he thinks of everything.” And he added: “Your partner does not always follow you. Being a journalist involves 24 hours a day and that is not easy for the person you share your life with.”

This is the journalist’s second romantic relationship after her divorce from Carlos Pardo (first it was with the architect César Vidal). She shares two sons with her ex-husband, Yago and Gonzalo: “My children suffer from me, because I am a heavy and intense mother. They accept with resignation that I am always late. At the moment they don’t admire me much because they are small,” she said. “I try to give them all the free time I have but I’m not a school-gate mother. Over time you get over it and I hope they think it was worth it. I’ve missed all their nights, all their baby baths, the stories, activities at school… But there is a part of renunciation when the woman wants to do everything that you have to assume.”