Charo Palacios died on November 25, 2016 and took some secrets with him to the grave but not his intimate relationships with Juan Carlos de Bourbonof which she boasted in her closest circle, to the point that her friend, the infanta margaritaHe even told her to try to be more discreet about her brother.
The mother of Alejandra de Rojasvery friend of Maria Zurita, was the second wife of the Count of Montarco, to whom she was married from 1968 until the death of the aristocrat in 2005, at the age of 96. Charo Palacios was undoubtedly one of the few most notable and elegant women in Madrid in the 50s, and her style marked an era.
Rosario Palacios Calleya (Lisbon, December 29, 1936) was the daughter of the scientist Julio Palacios. But she was always fascinated by fashion and even she had a store in the center of Madrid. Elio Berhanyer He made her his leading model and the great dressmaker helped her as much as she exalted him, because Charo was the center of attention wherever he was, as well as rubbing shoulders with Tessa of Bavaria, Beatrice of Orleans or visit Zarzuela with Elio until Queen Sofía herself vetoed ityou can imagine why. Floating In the 1970s, he designed the Iberia flight attendant wardrobe or the uniforms for the 1982 World Cup hostesses. Ava Gardner, Lucia Bose, Nat Mistral or Queen Sofía wore their creations throughout their half-century career.
Many years before his disagreements with the mother of Philip VI, Charo was one of the guests at the wedding in Athens of the then Prince Don Juan Carlos with Sofía of Greece in May 1962. But not because of her courtship with Eduardo de Rojas Ordonez, was about to arrive, but because his father, the aforementioned Julio Palacios, was one of the tutors of Don Juan Carlos, whom she always called “Juanito”. Two years older than the then Prince of Asturias, there are those who say that “this modern and daring girl aroused the attention of an adolescent Bourbon who was always fascinated by women”.
When Eduardo de Rojas Ordonez, Count of Montarco, married Charo for the second time, in 1968. He had six children from his first marriage. She and Charo had a son and daughter (Julio) and a daughter, Alejandra de Rojas.
“Charo had relations with Juan Carlos but Alejandra is not his daughter”
This Wednesday it has come to light that Alejandra is actually the daughter of Don Juan Carlos, according to what the journalists Javier del Olmo and David Fernández say in their book. They say that Juan Carlos I had a fourth daughter, the result of an extramarital relationship “with an aristocrat slightly older than him,” they say without naming Charo Palacios. But then they add that this fourth heiress “came into the world at the end of the seventies, beginning of the eighties”, that “her name is Alejandra, she is married and has a son”.
Family sources close to Alejandra herself and the late Countess of Montarco assure Informalia than the aristocrat “She is not the daughter of Don Juan Carlos”, although they admit that “it is true that Charo had the king as one of his lovers and that he even boasted about it on occasions”, as we have already said. So much so that the very same Infanta Margarita, little sister of the Emeritus and friend of the supposed lover of the Emeritus, came to ask him to shut her mouth.
They also tell us that Alejandra Rojas “always knew that her father was not her biological father,” but they attribute that paternity to a “handsome lover of Charo, very good-looking and of Portuguese nationality,” they add.
“In the family we all knew that Juan Carlos and Charo saw each other sometimes. She would call him, say: ‘Juanito, we have to see each other,’ she insisted, and we already know that most Bourbons are the way they are,” they explain.
“It is also true that Charo always wanted to have a daughter, a girl, and that her husband, 28 years older than her, also wanted a little woman, although he already had daughters from his first marriage,” they tell us. “But from having relations with Don Juan Carlos to Alejandra being her daughter, it goes a long way,” our source concludes.