The media war between Fernando Fernández Tapias’ widow, Nuria González, and his older children is still more alive than ever. The Galician businessman died suddenly last Wednesday at the age of 84. The tragic news caught everyone around the shipowner by surprise, despite the fact that Fernández Tapias had had health problems for several years.
Many famous faces on the current Spanish scene wanted to go to the Madrid funeral home in La Paz, where his funeral chapel was installed and where both his family and friends were able to say goodbye to the former first vice president of Real Madrid. But the wake was more intense than expected and both sides of the family experienced several moments of tension.
As Makoke revealed this past Thursday on the program Así es la vida, a person close to Nuria González scolded three of the shipowner’s children “in a rather unpleasant tone” and even asked them to leave the room. The reason for this confrontation was that Nuria González’s entourage only wanted to fulfill the businessman’s last will. ”He left in writing that he did not want his older children at his funeral,” they claimed in And now Sonsoles. A reason that led to the flower crown they had bought also being removed.
This Friday, on the Sonsoles Ónega program, the collaborators gave more details of everything that happened during the businessman’s funeral mass. Journalist Carlos Pérez Gimeno told Antena 3 that the businessman’s widow was very supported by her children and by Florentino Pérez. ”At the funeral mass I was right behind Nuria. She was surrounded by her people and Fernando’s children were on the other hand, in other rows. There was no exchange of glances,’ he claimed. ”Father Ángel referred to Nuria and her two children and ignored the others,” the collaborator stated.
Another of her colleagues, journalist Paloma García Pelayo, confirmed all the information given and added that she was only supported by the president of Real Madrid because “she had no other support, besides her friends.”
According to eyewitnesses, attendees, including the eldest children, began to move to the chapel where the mass was going to take place. But when they got there they found the doors closed. They only opened at six in the afternoon, when everyone around Nuria González arrived. ”They did not leave any free spaces in the first pews, which were reserved for the immediate family,” the journalist stressed.
”There was a very unpleasant moment, it was a difficult situation and protocol had to intervene because it seems that Real Madrid had facilitated coordination with protocol so that things could be organized there. They were able to set up some benches on the right (…) It was a silent confrontation,’ he stated.
