Irene in love, Pello the mellifluous and a queen with charisma

Until recently, I believed that Otxandian Hair It was the name of a cyclist. Maybe it sounded like Perurenato Gorka Itzaguirreto Miguel Indurain and so many protagonists of the stickers that bear the designation of origin on their facial features.

Bildu’s candidate for this Sunday’s Basque elections (the count is close) is not a cyclist. Instead, he looks like an opponent of a judge, even a sleeveless official whom the scalpel would have turned into a teddy bear due to excessive coquetry.

This Pello, the one who stutters when asked if Eta is a terrorist organization, has more substance than the operator Afonso Diezthe ex Duchess of Alba. Otxandiano displays a gentle gesture that he sometimes hides with horn-rimmed glasses that give him an intellectual air. However, here where we see him, with his touch, half seminarian, half aspiring long-distance runner, he is one of those who say that ETA’s fight is still alive.

As Bildu’s candidate for lehendakari, he revolutionized the final stretch of the election campaign that ended on Friday night. No one can say that Pello has the symbols of the disappeared terrorist group engraved on his face. Not even close. However, as leader of Sortu, he is one of the followers of this cause, although by other means, of course.

The passage of time has also changed the aesthetics of his followers. Not only appearances change. Memory is also tuned. Not mine, which is very reminiscent of one of ETA’s first actions. It happened in Pamplona in 1966, during the Vuelta Ciclista a España. I was there, joking, because waiting hours and hours for runners to pass by like no other was an absurd waste of time.

Afterwards, it was just nails and tacks scattered across the road. The worst was yet to come.

Irene Urdangarin

Irene Urdangarin.

Irene Urdangarin.

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The contagion operation was underway without the spouses’ knowledge. I’m talking about the recent wedding of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeidawith Teresa Urquijodaughter of Beatriz Moreno de Borbón Dos Sicíliasa surname that can be stretched like gum by adding Parma Bourbon and a few more sonorous surnames. But among the surnames and pomp appear nicknames that alter the smooth running of the wedding business.

Here it is about Juan Urquijoyounger brother of Teresa (wife of the mayor) and the young Irene Urdandarín, who became the fashionable couple thanks to the indiscreet colorful press. We don’t know much about Irene because she is missing in Cambodia, where she lived dedicated to solidarity. So for now, we’re left with the fact that we’re talking about a niece of the king. Philip VIas the infanta’s daughter Cristinaalready divorced from Iñaki Urdangarin.

(Irene Urdangarin, in love with Juan Urquijo, brother-in-law of José Luis Martínez-Almeida)

Irene was not seen at Teresa Urquijo’s wedding, but the colorful magazines publicized the song and now everyone is talking about the same thing. At the wedding party, the youngest of the Urquijos achieved notable critical and public success. Juan, who couldn’t hide his smile at the guests’ congratulations, met Irene in early childhood, but then the couple lost their way and until the beginning of this year there was no reunion. This time they were presented by Victoria Federicawho has a lot of people skills and always knows where to put his eyes.

Seen from a medium distance, Juan and Irene appear to be correct students and support environmental, nature and animal causes. Certainly, in Irene’s case, she inherited it from her grandmother, Dona Sofia.

Edwin Arrieta

Edwin Arrieta.

Edwin Arrieta.

Guilherme Serrano Amat

The family of Edwin Arrietathe surgeon who fell victim to another less academic but more thorough surgeon took center stage in Thailand’s bloody soap opera: the two would-be lovers who carried their hatred until the violent death of one of them.

The dead man’s sister Dear Arrietamet last Friday in Madrid with the Colombian ambassador to Spain, Eduardo Ávila. In addition to thanking him for the effort he is making on behalf of the family, he spoke on TV with all the pain in his heart about the difficulties caused by Edwin’s absence.

Since her disappearance, the lack of resources has affected the family home. Clinging to pain and longing, the sister tries in vain to live day to day with the memories she has left and without the financial help that her brother provided. Therefore, it is understood that his lawyers presented the demand of 760 thousand euros for what the lawyers call “lost profits”.

The trial continues in Samui, an island south of Thailand, where the latest events took place. The coroner had decided, given the injuries to Edwin Arrieta’s skull, that these were compatible with a previous fight or fight, which could score in favor of the accused, Daniel Sanchoat least to rule out the assumption of premeditation.

Máxima Zorreguieta

Maximum from the Netherlands.

Maximum from the Netherlands.

Guilherme Serrano Amat

I liked the images that came to us from Amsterdam and the complicity of the queens consorts. They tied themselves to elegance and consolidated their old harmony of first ladies without an aristocratic pedigree, although they did not coincide so much over time. They did so this week, on the occasion of our kings’ official trip to Holland.

Instead of messing with the parallel lives of Maximum and Leticia (their respective biographers were lost in the dust) because the past doesn’t come back, the columnists of the tabloid press were amused by their respective looks. In fact, at Wednesday’s gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, the hostess wore the same dress as when she met Dona Letizia for the first time, ten years ago, also on an official trip. How cute, as they say now.

(From Felipe’s affectionate gesture with Letizia, to Amália’s bow and the photo of the Queen sitting: the best of the trip to Holland)

I also surrender to the charisma of this charming Argentinean, Máxima Zorreguieta, who has won the affection of the Dutch because, among other things, she compensates with her expression of sympathy for the expressionless face presented by her husband, King William, whom she met in Seville. In the shadow of the Giralda, love emerged in 1999, which, with a marriage in the middle in 2002, has now lasted a quarter of a century.

That’s not all. In addition to the charisma that her figure exudes, Máxima comes from overcoming a difficult past, with a father linked to the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983). This biographical detail disqualified him from attending his daughter’s wedding. In other words, the Dutch government did not allow it. Good job. Today, Queen Máxima’s efforts focus on allowing herself to be guided by nutritionists determined to stop her tendency to grow (God bless them, they are doing it) and, of course, on taking care of the progression of her daughter, Princess Catherine, first in line to the Dutch throne.