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Ysbel ( I love your nick, btw ;) ), Juana is said to have suffered from some kind of paranoia, not schizophrenia, in the same way his paternal grandmother suffered it.

Well, Catalina had an older daughter, Juana ( called "Juana la Loca", "Crazy Juana"), who inherited the throne, and was imprisoned by her own father and son (Emperor Carlos V) in a convent in Tordesillas (Valladolid). Her son Carlos was the heir and Catalina had no way to be queen of Castilla...

Yep, their private funds.

I have voted for Catalina de Aragón (I like to name her in Spanish ;) ). She was so well educated by her mother, Queen Isabel la Católica, in the way princesses were brought up then, which was lost in the following decades. She was educated, spoke latin and modern languages, played musical...

When dictator Franco died and democracy came to Spain, in 1975, the Spanish people "decided" to make a shield for the Monarchy, as it was the reference of the new Spain. That shield has lived until a decade or so, when, in the name of freedom of speech and information, the media have started to...

She has a very strong accent and she doesn't pronounce some sounds. It is widely known in the country, and she usually doesn't speak in public.

Before Pavlos married MC, it was widely believed in Spain that King JC and Queen Sofía helped King Constantine financially. Matter of fact, the Greek RF spent a lot of time with them in the Palacio de la Zarzuela, with all the kids. In many books written about King JC this has been suggested...

I'm not sure, Lily. Alexia speaks Spanish very well.

My mom always says Queen Anne Marie had beautiful babies, and MC's babies are so pretty in the same way. Olympia looks like her mother when she was a child, and she's perhaps the most Latin-American of all the children. MC is quite showing in the cover of Life and Style ¡¡¡

Well, I have to say he speaks with a very strong accent and I don't think he is so fluent in Spanish... Matter of fact I expected him to speak much better Spanish, being, as he is, so close to Prince Felipe. Perhaps he's like his aunt, Queen Sofía, who doesn't speak Spanish very well, either.

Hi Stefanie, which weddings of 1995 are you referring to?

I have had some days off and I bought February 2008 Vanity Fair and read the article they publish about MC and her family. She has the same article in her website, where you can dl it. It's quite interesting.

Are you referring to the marine park visit? I made a search in Google yesterday and I found that it was in 2003, and I got a picture of Queen Sofía with the tortoises, with Froilán ( Infanta Elena's son) and Maria Olimpia, but MC is not in sight, although she was just there, because I remember...

I'll vote for Federica for a girl.

I don't think so. But I think MC is sure he will be King.

She usually spends some days of her holidays in Majorca, in the palace the Royal Family uses in summer. She appears in lots of pics when paparazzi follow Felipe or Letizia or the Infantas. I remember a special event, about 2 years ago, when Queen Sofía gathered all her grandchildren and they...

Thanks Tosca ¡¡¡

Hi: I'm a newbie to the forum. I live in Seville, Spain and I teach Advanced Maths at the University. :flowers:

Well, I don't like her very much...I think she really believes she will be Queen of Greece some day, and she acts like one. She's a relative of the Spanish Royal Family and shares holidays and family gatherings with them, but I think people in Spain find her...mmm...a bit ridiculous, to say the...