ROYAL CONTROVERY
While Queen Elizabeth was having her official birthday celebrated on the island, with the British Consul General to the Balearics, Andrew Gwatkin, presiding over the “glittering event” attended by more than a hundred people (photographs of whom appeared on Friday and yesterday), the Spanish Royal Family had less pleasing matters to attend to.
The council in Palma was quick to announce its “maximum respect” for the decision by King Felipe to strip his sister, Princess Cristina, of her title of Duchess of Palma. Yesterday, we reported on this decision and an apparent controversy which has arisen - not the removal of the title, but who made the decision. The announcement having been made by the royal household, it emerged that the princess had sent the king a letter in which she said that she would renounce her title. The implication was that it was she who had instigated the move, something which the royal household was at pains to deny. It had been the king’s decision, and the letter from his sister (dated 1 June in Geneva) had arrived after the announcement had been made and indeed after the king had informed her of the decision by telephone. The outcome is the same, however, and the princess is no longer the duchess, while her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, automatically loses his title of Duke of Palma.
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