Vargas Llosa, the mother of his children, the king and Preysler, who “is not well”

“Surely”. That was the answer from Juan Carlos I to the question of the journalists who went to Paris about whether he would return to Spain soon. At the end of the act of entering Mario Vargas Llosa at the French Language Academy, together with his daughter Cristina, the king answered the reporters who asked him about his health. “I’m fine,” he said, adding, “I’m glad to see you.”

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The appearance of Don Juan Carlos, who turned 85 on January 5, has improved since his last appearance at the funeral for former King Constantine in Athens. Slimmer, very elegant in a navy blue suit and fuchsia waistcoat and tie, the former head of state seemed happy to be in Paris, where he was certainly very well received. The protocol of the Academy treated him like a king in office.

The attendance of Don Juan Carlos, invited by the Spanish-Peruvian writer, has meant his second departure in a short time (that we know of) from his residence in Abu Dhabi. As explained by one of the participants in the solemn academic ceremony in Paris, they were King Juan Carlos and President Felipe Gonzalez who (in 1993) made the writer’s Spanish nationality possible, when the dictatorial government of Peru was about to strip him of his. In correspondence, Vargas Llosa wanted to show the king emeritus his gratitude for that important gesture. In addition, the Marquis of Vargas Llosa holds the noble title created on February 3, 2011 by his illustrious guest this Thursday, King Juan Carlos I. He granted it to recognize the work of the writer, Prince of Asturias Award for Letters (1986 ), Cervantes Prize (1994) and Nobel Prize for Literature.

The ceremony

In the ceremony and its prolegomena we have seen that the family of the author of Aunt Julia and the writer is a pineapple again, as it was before the affair of the father with Isabella Preysler, infidelities aside. Two of the author’s sons The party of the goat They have reacted to Isabel’s reproaches towards her ex-lover, in this week’s issue of Hola, where she reproaches her for “having fallen very low”, by making (supposedly and according to the socialite’s interpretation) mockery of Tamara Falco for his religious beliefs and his love of gastronomy. “Who does this lady think she is? We are not afraid of her,” they replied to the Filipina.

Patricia Llosa He occupied the first row of guests with his children and some of his little children, very close to the seats where Don Juan Carlos and the Infanta were. The satisfied face of the writer’s ex-wife was visible, she was in the position that she had been taken from her eight years ago. Another thing is that at some point in the long speech of the father of her children, she seemed to be asleep. For her part, Vargas Llosa wanted to make it clear in Paris that it had been he personally who had invited Patricia and asked her to accompany him. Because the truth is that her wife had a lot to do with her literary successes, she was the one who managed her career, her schedule, the family finances, and took care of and educated her children, letting them her husband will only take care of writing.

About to turn 87, it can be said that it has been the writer’s great day but also the triumph of Patricia and her children. The writer has returned home with his family, as always. For them, his affair with Isabel Preysler was just a mistake that has been remedied in time.

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They said this afternoon at an event to which Isabel was invited that this Thursday she was not feeling well. And it is not strange: just two months ago Preysler was seen in Paris, with her ‘tailleur’ ​​from Chanel, as a star guest on her boyfriend’s big day. But not. She’s on the cover of Hola and Patricia Llosa with the father of her children, in the city where their love took hold, more than half a century ago, with Mario Vargas Llosa, hobnobbing with the President of the Republic and going down in history, immortal, as the first writer who without having published in French is never a member of the Academy.