The strict capitulations of Felipe and Letizia’s marriage that the journalist had to abide by no matter what

The labels royal marriage, betrayal and divorce circulate on the networks with the focus on Denmark. The Genoveva Casanova tornado has devastated the peaceful life of the Danish Royal House. Every image, every gesture, every color you choose Mary Donaldson for his looks at public events is analyzed with a magnifying glass by royal observers. The photos of the crown prince, Federico, walking with the Mexican woman through Madrid, have dynamited the foundations of the marriage. To the point of the word divorce sneaking into the debate tables. This after Womam’s Day would publish that Federico and the Australian lawyer sleep in separate beds. Still, the word divorce makes Queen Margaret tremble. A huge obstacle for the 83-year-old monarch, who is already planning her succession. In the case of our kings, Felipe and Letizia married in 2004 (the same year as the Danes) under a regime of separation of property. The Asturian journalist signed some capitulations, whose episode is recorded by Jaime Peñafiel in his new book Letizia and me.

Peñafiel collects many testimonies from Jaime del Burgo, Telma Ortiz’s ex-husband, who in this new text defines himself “as a universal vagabond to whom many things have happened; some, extraordinary, like my romance with Letizia, a woman on the verge of collapse (…). The institutional mafia did not know about a love that was born in Venice before the year 2000. Sometimes, what for one is a simple anecdote of the future of love life, for others turns out to be a threat for the system.” The marriage of the Asturian woman and the Prince of Asturias was established in a regime of separation of assets with an agreement that recognized, in the event of divorce, that the journalist would receive an economic allowance that would allow her to live comfortably for the rest of her life. her. The strictest point referred to children. Letizia had to renounce custody of her offspring before marrying her heir.

“Don Felipe didn’t like those capitulations either”

Peñafiel relates this episode like this: “Although from the first moment it was clear that Felipe and Letizia were a marriage for love, everything had to be left very tied up in the event of a possible divorce, through capitulations. But there was one issue that Letizia refused to sign as it was drafted by Zarzuela’s advisors: what related to children in case of separation. ‘If you separate, they have to treat you better than Lady Di,’ Jaime del Burgo told him. The Navarrese lawyer still maintained a friendship with the future princess. ““It was Jaime who advised Letizia not to sign them the way they had been written.” The author continues his story by mentioning Del Burgo again: “I called Felipe, a good-hearted man. He didn’t like those capitulations either.”

As the journalist claims, Zarzuela warned Jaime del Burgo that he had to sign “as they appeared.” In the end, according to Peñafiel, “Felipe promised Letizia that, in case the marriage did not come to fruition, he would take care of her and respect her rights as her mother if they had children by then.”