The businessman Fernando Fernández Tapias died last Wednesday at the age of 84 in Madrid. News that shocked his family, his loved ones and anyone who had had contact with him. However, far from having a nice farewell as they would have wanted, the last goodbye to the former president of the Madrid employers’ association was marred by controversy.
Fernández Tapias’ bad relationship with his older children is a story widely discussed in the press in this country. So much so, that he himself made it clear that he did not want to see them anymore. “He did not want to have them at his funeral and he left it in writing,” sources close to the businessman said. Even so, they ignored his father’s wishes and attended the funeral home and the mass.
“For him it was the biggest disappointment of his life, he even went into depression when his five children took him to court for financial issues, and from then on he decided to break up with that entire part of the family and did not want to know anything about them. “, said Antonio Rossi in the program Let’s see.
That is why it is not surprising that they were not welcome at the funeral home. As Makoke revealed in Así es la vida, a person close to Nuria González, widow of the deceased, rebuked one of the businessman’s eldest sons “in a rather unpleasant tone and then invited them to leave the room.”
But if it seemed like everything couldn’t get worse, it has. “Yesterday at mass there was revenge,” said Rossi. “The five oldest children, with their grandchildren, with friends of the grandchildren… unknown people and people who knew that Fernández Tapias did not want to know anything about them, because he had decided so, were there almost two hours before the start of the mass waiting for the chapel to open,” he continued.
The businessman’s oldest children decided to go to mass before anyone else in the family, and as soon as the doors opened, “running, they went to grab the first seats so that the moment Nuria arrived with the children (small ones), ) had no place and real friends had no place to sit.
However, the “revenge” of Fernández Tapias’ older children could not come true. “Real Madrid Protocol quickly took a bench and set it up next to the coffin so that the widow, her children and royal friends could sit,” the journalist added.
All this would be due to what happened at the funeral home, which the children would not have liked at all. “They do not go to the funeral home with the intention of fueling any war and they simply want to say goodbye to their father,” said Isabel Rábago.
