Victoria Federica and her adventure with fashion, at the origin of the terrible relationship exhibited by her parents

We told on September 23 that the infanta Elena and her ex-husband had met at the Liria palace. We realized in rigorous first that Jaime de Marichalar and the firstborn of Juan Carlos I They had attended, separately, the birthday party of Furstenberg’s Wrath. The princess gathered family, friends, many aristocrats, financiers, important businessmen, artists and various personalities at the Alba palace last Thursday, September 22, to celebrate her 82nd anniversary. As we said, Ira had initially planned to celebrate her 80th birthday, a round number, but the pandemic and restrictions have delayed the event for two years.

In our chronicle we revealed the exquisite menu, or that dozens of guests had to fly from halfway around the world to congratulate the mother of Hubert de Hohenlohe from various countries. But we titled that the Infanta Elena and her ex-husband did not even greet each other because the matter is relevant and because several of the people consulted, who attended the celebration, thought it was “showy, unpleasant” or even “bad effect” that two people who lived together for many years, who have two children in common gave the grade in this way and, above all, that they have not been able after so much time to reach at least one cordial agreement like the one they exhibit with admirable professionalism Don Juan Carlos y Mrs. Sofiaand that the humiliations of the emeritus to the Greek queen are public and innumerable.

Doña Elena did not spend as much time as Jaime de Marichalar in Liria. The former duke did stay for the party after the agape and she did not. Sources present that night at the residence of the Duke of Alba, rented for the occasion by whom she acted as hostess, Ira de Fürstenberg, remember how ugly Jaime and Elena became. Two weeks after the social event, they add that the infanta and the father of her children “did the impossible not to exchange a glance or, of course, a word.”

The matter brings up the delicate relationship that Jaime de Marichalar maintains with the woman he divorced at the end of 2009 after many years of marriage and two children together. This lack of decorum in public is even more terrible if we take into account that the infanta Elena has spent her whole life being educated to behave impeccably in social events and her ex-husband boasts of being a very classy man, in addition to his vaunted elegance and hard work. for years for large firms and after having held various positions in the LVMH luxury empire. A director of Loewe or Fendi, the houses that he represents, cannot, or at least must not, be rude to his ex-wife or to anyone else in a social act of the relevance we are talking about.

Next November 13 marks three decades since that bizarre ‘temporary cessation of conjugal coexistence’ of the Dukes of Lugo. The media management of what was to be the first divorce of a member of the monarchy in Spain was pathetic to the point of making jokes and turning the unfortunate expression into part of everyday language. In its day, the strange statement released by the Royal House was, in addition to the end point to the relationship between the infanta and Jaime de Marichalar, the most ridiculous example of palace language. That type of language has been recovered this year, when the other daughter of the emeritus had to make official the end of her conjugal relationship (not her marriage) with Iñaki Urdangarin, after it came to light that the father of her four children had a co-worker as a lover, now a girlfriend.

In reality, Marichalar and Elena de Borbón lived together as a true marriage twelve years after marrying on March 18, 1995 in the Cathedral of Seville. When they decided to separate, long before formalizing their divorce, Froilán and Victoria were nine and seven years old, respectively. Contrary to what happened recently in the case of the former dukes of Palma, there is no evidence that there were third parties who stood between the eldest of the infantas and her husband. Moreover, despite the time that has elapsed since then, and how young they were, neither of them has been known to have any relationship, apart from rumors or flirtations that have never been confirmed.

The reasons for that break have not been revealed. The Royal House decided to store the divorce file in a security grade IV safe deposit box at Family Court number 22 in Madrid, once signed by the Infanta Elena and Jaime de Marichalar. The scandal jumped when the magazine Era published that the Infanta Elena could have alleged against Jaime de Marichalar “occasional consumption of cocaine to justify the request for Catholic annulment”, an extreme denied by Marichalar, who never managed to win the lawsuit against the weekly.

Now they tell us that the relationship between Doña Elena, as Her Highness likes to be addressed, and Jaime experienced great discrepancies due to their different opinions on the education of their children. We asked those around Froilán and they told us that the young man who occupies no less than fourth place in the line of succession to the throne of Spain, behind his mother, does not care “exactly the same” about his parents’ relationship, although he is concerned that in public “give the note”. The eldest son of the family, who now lives outside of Spain, is divided between his father and his mother at the age of 24 when he is in Madrid. In the same way, he tries to spend part of the summer with Doña Elena, whether in Marivent, the Basque Country or Switzerland, and another part with his father, in Sotogrande or Marbella.

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But what about Victoria Federica? The influencer daughter of Marichalar and Elena does not have her parents especially happy. But she’s not worried about how they get along either. Another thing is that the discrepancies on how to curb the young woman’s media effervescence have made a dent in Doña Elena and her ex-husband. The mother hates her daughter’s excessive exposure, although she does not say so in order not to stir up further controversy, while what bothers her father is that Victoria Federica lowers the level of the brands and has become the image of Hoss Intropia, a brand far below the luxury that Marichalar was looking for to launch her daughter’s career in the world of fashion. “A maison like Dior or Fendi would have been more convenient,” a friend who thinks like the former Duke of Lugo tells us.

Victoria Federica, like her brother, sleeps both at her father’s house and at her mother’s, that is when she sleeps with her parents. Now we have seen her with her father at Paris Fashion Week. We are told that her father does not agree that he continues to promote brands that he considers “inappropriate” for her daughter. To make matters worse, as has been published, Vic’s bad manners and fame as a despot seem to have generated rejection against that house, which has also paid a fortune to have her as her image. In the presentation of this Wednesday she did not admit the press. By the way, no trace of her father or her mother to support her daughter in this professional adventure.