The kings Felipe and Letizia offer their condolences to the son of Mari Carmen and her dolls: "We will miss her ingenuity"

Miguel Manuel Almanzorthe only son of María del Carmen Martínez-Villaseñor Barrasa, better known as ‘Mari Carmen and her dolls‘, has received the condolences of Their Majesties the Kings Philip VI y Joy for the death of his mother this Thursday, June 15.

“We have learned the sad news of the sudden death of Mari Carmen and we want to send our sincere condolences, support and closeness to the whole family in these difficult times,” said the monarch and his wife, according to 20minutos.

Mari Carmen, one of the most popular and beloved ventriloquists in Spain, died at the age of 80 in Tenerife, but leaves an indelible legacy in the memory of those who grew up watching her on television. “Doña Rogelia, Daisy, Nicol and Rodolfo are already the childhood memory of several generations. We will miss the ingenuity and affection that Mari Carmen poured into her four unforgettable characters,” concludes the message of the kings.

His son Miguel, devastated

After a fling with Jose Luis Moreno (“we kissed each other”) and a brief courtship with Jimmy Jiménez-ArnauMari Carmen married the lawyer Manuel Almanzor in 1980. The result of that union was born their only son, Miguel, to whom the comedian was very close: “I don’t love my son, I love him, he is my other self. He has given me many joys, but even Let him come to what I have given him… We have a wonderful and horrible relationship. From not speaking to each other to talking until five in the morning and having to hang up to go to sleep. We both need to communicate, we are two souls twins. If he weren’t my son, he would be my only friend,” he said in 2021 to The reason.

The young man clarified that his mother did not die from a fall on the stairs of her house, but from a heart attack. “She had the little things of her age, sugar, she smoked… It seems that it was a heart attack and that that’s where the fall came from, but it wasn’t on the stairs, it was at the door of her house, on the sidewalk… And she fell and stayed there, alone,” she declared in Public mirror.