Other Shakiras in history: from the revenge of the wife of Alfonso XIII to the confessions of Lady Di

“It’s over,” María Jiménez began her best-known song, the most famous breakup ever sung. Rocío Jurado expressed it differently, but with the same forcefulness: “Our love broke from using it so much.” And Shakira has finished it off with her song directed against Piqué: «A wolf like me is not there for guys like you. For guys like you. I was big for you and that is why you are with someone just like you ». The story, not only the musical, is full of love revenge after unfriendly separations or humiliating situations for one of the lovers. The faithful who was unfaithful A famous case in Spanish history is that of Juana of Portugal and her husband Enrique IV of Castile. The King, who would go down in history as ‘The Impotent’, contracted a second marriage with the Portuguese woman in 1455 after a disastrous marriage with Blanca de Navarra that was never consummated. Enrique married Juana de Portugal, a sixteen-year-old girl who, once again, left her wedding night “as full as she came, with no small anger received from everyone”, in the words of the chronicler Galíndez de Carvajal. The King refused even to show the blood-stained royal sheet, medieval proof that the wife had ceased to be a virgin. Another seven years passed without the King being able to impregnate his wife. It is said that he resorted to prayers and offerings as a remedy, going through concoctions and potions with presumed invigorating effects sent by his ambassadors in Italy –at that time considered the metropolis of erotic science–, to the financing of expeditions to Africa in search of the horn of a unicorn, which was something like the Holy Grail of the impotent in the 15th century. Nothing seemed to work until the birth of a girl on February 28, 1462, about whom malicious rumors soon spread that she was considered the daughter of her royal favorite, Beltrán de la Cueva. The King tried to deny these malicious ideas, but ultimately agreed to waive the dynastic rights of his daughter in exchange for peace with the nobles who spread these lies about his wife. Enrique IV of Castile (miniature of a manuscript, 1455 abc The Queen experienced the humiliation of seeing her daughter separated and her honor put in doubt, despite the fact that there is no evidence of her infidelities. Not at least until, years later, Turned into a hostage of gold, Juana began a scandalous relationship with Pedro de Castilla, nephew of the Archbishop of Seville. A revenge against her husband, but also a way of agreeing with those who accused her of being a libertine. Wanting to avoid scandal, the A Portuguese woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy, fell from the castle walkway in a basket that dropped near the ground. Juana got up from the fall with only superficial injuries. She then fled with her lover to Cuéllar in search of Beltrán’s protection de la Cueva, although she ended up in Buitrago, where she received the protection of the Mendoza family.If she had ever tried to help the King and his daughter, with that escape and the subsequent birth of two children, the Portuguese woman revealed herself as the worst to bogada of her own family. “The King’s sword is nothing more than a razor” Henry VIII’s campaign against women or, specifically, those who married him, would have deserved a combined conspiracy of the female gender, but that never happened. Of his six wives, he divorced one, executed the second, mourned a third, repudiated the next, and beheaded the next to last. However, the closest thing to revenge that the British King received in the form of words were those thrown at him by his second wife, Anne Boleyn, when it was already clear that she was going to be executed for allegedly using witchcraft to seduce her husband, having adulterous relations with five men, incest with his brother, insulting the king and conspiring to assassinate him. Henry VIII of England, by Hans Holbein the Younger. abc The popular anecdotary says that when Enrique threatened her with the forcefulness of his armies and her long power, the fallen lady felt very little intimidated when she remembered her virile member: «The king’s sword is nothing more than a mere razor.” Brother-in-law against sister-in-law Precisely the daughter who had this marriage, Isabel Túdor, starred in another particular revenge against a man, perhaps the most powerful in the world: her brother-in-law Felipe II. Seeing that his wife María I was going to die without giving an heir, Felipe quickly understood that his half-sister Isabel Tudor was the person with the most support to reign, so, fearing the worst, he began an approach towards what would ultimately be the Empire’s greatest villain. Felipe’s original plan was to marry Isabella to a Catholic prince she trusted, her cousin Manuel Filiberto de Saboya being her best candidate, so as not to lose her influence over the islands. Events, however, precipitated and the Monarch himself offered to marry Elizabeth when he saw that England could get away from her control forever. Elizabeth was implacable with the Catholic nobles who threatened her power and took all possible measures to erase the Hispanic footprint. Far from accepting Philip’s marriage proposal, Elizabeth refused to return to papal obedience and remained single all her life. The relationship between the Spanish Empire and England went from bad to worse in the following years. Isabel was implacable with the Catholic nobles who threatened her power and took all possible measures to erase the Hispanic footprint on the islands. Any chance of Catholicism ever becoming the majority again in England in the future perished with Mary’s death. From the possibility of being husband and wife, Felipe and Isabel became irreconcilable enemies and engaged in a long war for control of trade routes. «I don’t want to see your ugly face again» The list of lovers of Alfonso XIII of Spain is endless, perhaps only comparable to that of Felipe IV and, to a lesser extent, to that of his father. Under the name of Monsieur Lamy he shepherded several women to Paris, where he lived meetings as torrid as noisy. Most of the King’s ladies of the night went in and out of the royal bedchamber with equal alacrity. The figure of about five children out of wedlock is usually considered valid, although there is still a lack of historical perspective to make a global calculation of the sexual appetite of Alfonso XIII in the female population. Queen Victoria Eugenia suffered in silence all these infidelities and with pain to see how, in front of her sick children, the bastards of her husband ran salty. She endured sixteen years without living a married life but living in the palace, all of it until the exile of the royal family separated her paths. They lived in separate cities and the Queen indulged in telling her husband what she kept silent for almost thirty years. “I don’t want to see your ugly face again,” the Englishwoman blurted out when her conceited husband asked her to choose between him or her friends. Victoria Eugenia photographed by Christian Franzen in 1922. ABC In addition, the Queen vented to her official biographer, Gerard Noel, to whom she confessed that Alfonso made love “just like he devoured a snack: without taste or grace, fatally like a jerk. No sensible woman would repeat her experience, although they all liked to try it once, that is, that she suffered from halitosis, among other intimacies about a man she did not consider very attractive. In spite of everything, she Victoria Eugenia traveled to Rome to shake hands with that “ugly face” and unfaithful in her final agony and then she returned to Lausanne, where she lived the rest of her life without completely losing contact with her grandchildren. “There were three of us in my marriage” Diana of Wales and today’s King Carlos III starred in a turbulent marriage full of scandals and revenge. The then Princess of Wales gave an interview to the BBC in 1995 where she spoke openly about her private life and acknowledged to a millionaire audience that “we were three in my marriage”, referring to her husband’s relationship with Camila Parker. However, years later it was learned that if Diana agreed to sit on the Panorama program and be interviewed by Martin Bashir, it was through manipulation and pressure. The presenter used tricks such as telling her that the British secret service was spying on her or that her husband was having a relationship with a caregiver for her children and that she was willing to do so to convince her and gain her trust. public. 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