The conditions were not serious Sofia of Spainwife of the king emeritus Juan Carlos and mother of kings Felipe VI. The queen is hospitalized at the Clínica Ruber Internacional in Madrid for a urinary tract infection and is under observation. Accompanying her on the afternoon of Wednesday 10 April was the king himself, who exchanged a few reassuring jokes with the press: «She is very well, she is cheerful and can’t wait to be discharged and return as soon as possible» said Felipe VI, leaning out of the car.
King Felipe outside the clinic where his mother is hospitalized.
Carlos Alvarez
No alarmism, in short: the king always appeared relaxed and spent about half an hour inside the hospital, the same one where his daughters Leonor and Sofia were born. Also with the sovereign was his older sister Elena, who however preferred not to speak to journalists.
Born in 1935, it is the first time that Sofia of Spain has needed hospitalization since 1968, when she gave birth to the future king. The queen emerita was last seen in public last Monday, at the funeral of her cousin Fernando Gomez-Acebo, and before that at the wedding of the mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez Almeida And Teresa Urquijo Moreno de Borbón, second cousin of King Felipe of Spain. With the former sovereign, also her daughters (in addition to Elena, she is the mother of Cristina, ed) and some grandchildren; absent, however, King Felipe and Letizia Ortiz, who, with the exception of the sovereigns emeritus, have distanced themselves from the rest of the family for various reasons: Iñaki Urdangarin, Cristina’s ex-husband, was in prison for fraud, a bad story in which at first the princess also seemed involved, but in the end she turned out to be extraneous. Of qwui, the decision to distance himself. Elena, on the other hand, would have a bad relationship with Ortiz, who would have taken the side of Jaime di Marichalar, her ex-husband, in the aftermath of the divorce, and who has always remained close to her father Juan Carlos, despite the scandals that have characterized the her life. The “Shadow Princess”, they call her, someone who has always taken a position within the family, but who has never needed to share it with the world. Today her distance from her brother appears important, but for her mother the two remain united.
