This week we have learned that, if you are an aspiring queen, it is better not to retouch your image and show yourself as naturally as possible. That is what Isabel Díaz Ayuso has done, always in the pools to be crowned the monarch of PPstán in case Alberto Núñez Feijóo falls.
After President Pedro Sánchez asked for Ayuso’s resignation due to the alleged tax fraud of 350,951 euros committed by her partner, the now Queen Isabel of Madrid has not only denounced a campaign of “personal destruction” through a “shady case of the powers of the State”, but has exercised the most traditional and deeply rooted political art in Spain, which consists of demonstrating that you know how to “turn the tables” and, therefore, your partner not only would not owe anything to the Treasury, but is the treasury who would have to return “almost 600,000 euros”. I help one hundred percent, without touch-ups. The next day, it was reported that her partner had admitted two tax crimes and offered the Prosecutor’s Office a pact to avoid going to trial…
Nothing to do with Kate Middleton, the Diana aspirant of the 21st century, who has had to apologize for the commotion caused by the dissemination of a family photograph of hers retouched by herself. We are in the era of Artificial Intelligence, anyone can get a fake photo anywhere. And we are also in the times of Facebook, Tinder… and all kinds of platforms where people post retouched or twenty-year-old profile images and look so angry. But it turns out that naive Kate is not forgiven. If she wants to be queen she has to pay that toll.
Double standards are only the right of the common people and should not be applied (apparently) to British royalty (although it is clear that there have been much more notorious and serious cases than Kate’s innocence, such as Prince Andrew’s affairs). Surely, if the royals did not have their lives insured this would not happen. The current conservative government has decided to raise Carlos III’s salary by 25% starting next year (almost nothing!… Inflation, you know). And he is one of the richest guys in the world. Kate also benefits from a “sovereign subsidy” that costs each British subject about one and a half euros a year (still little, compared to Netflix, for example, and on top of that with guaranteed soap operas without advertising). But it is normal that ordinary Britons, already orphaned by the antics of Boris Johnson, now turn to attacking the Princess of Wales.
Another royal who has been retouched this week, although he says he is a Republican, is President Pere Aragonès. He has called early elections in Catalonia, without a doubt, already the most fashionable risk sport in the Catalan Republic (real and/or fictitious) in which we live. He has tried to sneak in the fake speech that he is calling Catalans to the polls out of responsibility, when in reality, if he has not managed to reach an agreement with other parties to have “the budget with the most resources in the history of Catalonia” it is because his inability to negotiate.
Also, what king leaves the crown when he has power? And when he is negotiating matters of state, such as the amnesty, with Madrid? Aragonès must be very sure that he will win the next elections, but until May 12 at night, when the votes are counted, we will not be clear of doubt. Maybe someone must have given him a custom-made survey, but there are many days until the elections.
So, a priori, it seems that Aragonès confuses Catalans with Catalins (in reference to Catalina Middleton) and wanted to sneak a fake photo into them. But, no, the president is neither Prince of Wales nor of the Catalan Denmark of “to be or not to be.” That is the question, “whether it is nobler for the soul to endure the arrows and stones of harsh Fortune or to arm itself against a sea of ??adversities and put an end to them in the encounter.”
