The interview that Letizia ‘did’ with King Juan Carlos at the university and does not want it to see the light

In the mid-90s, a young and very curious Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (49 years old) attended his classes daily at the Faculty of Information Sciences from Complutense University of Madrid as a student enrolled in the Bachelor of Journalism.

Upon reaching the fourth grade, with a training already completed, in addition to his own congenital and acquired vocation – his grandmother Menchu ​​was a journalist and his father, Jesus Ortiz (72), also-, the current queen of Spain received classes from a teacher that would mark her forever.

He was Fermín Bouza Álvarez, professor of Public opinion, sociologist, psychologist and passionate about literature, physics and also poetry. At, Letizia found a reference, a guide, a person whose professional steps to follow, someone to lean on intellectually in order to acquire the optimal training that would open in the aftermath the working doors of their dream places.

To squeeze the best out of your pupil’s brilliant mind, Fermin Bouza put her to the test. They not only talked, debated, theorized and sent her books that according to him, she always cited. The important thing was practice. Launch the true work of the journalist: investigate, inform, train, ask questions.

One of those academic activities proposed by Bouza was that Letizia chose a character to interview of the field he wanted and interview him in depth, albeit fictitious. Your selected interviewee? The King Juan Carlos I (83).

There is no question of the value of that document today, but what happened to it? Where is that job, now priceless, given that it was Letizia’s interview with the head of state, who only years later would end up being her father-in-law?

THE SPANISH consulted Carmen Pena Lopez placeholder image, widow of the famous and admired professor, and she has the answer. “That interview has been lost. He -Fermín- had the library flooded and did not renounce anything, but precisely eThe interview disappeared. There are other things of less importance, but not that interview, “says the professor at History of art to this newspaper.

And he continues: “In the midst of this rush of papers, movement … I don’t know, but she -Letizia- wanted him to give it back. That was a job that they liked a lot because he, Fermín, directed them psychologically and sociologically to teach them to do interviews. It was a compulsory job and she decided to do an interview with the King, “he continues Pena López.

The moment when Letizia, already Princess of Asturias, becomes aware that this document is in the possession of Fermin Bouza It is when his widow dates, more or less, the distance between the professor and the future queen of Spain. They were such friends that she even invited him to her wedding with the then prince Felipe de Borbón (53).

“It was the moment when the media were crushing it, also from the forums … Fermín told him ‘I’m not going to take it out, I’m going to encrypt it’. Maybe that was the cause of his estrangement. A long time passed, but everything was diluted, the distance … And it was increasingly difficult to access it … logical, “he adds Carmen.

This medium is interested in that work and Carmen Pena She insists that she does not know where she might be, but if there is one thing she is clear about, it is that her husband would never have failed his word: he would never have seen the light. “U.S we have a second home in Galicia. I don’t know if he took it there, if he later brought it… He never thought of giving it because his was absolute fidelity, but since it was a treasure that he had, he hid it … And in that bustle of coming and going, maybe he put it in a place where it wouldn’t … On October 29 it will be five years – he refers to his death – and I have not finished looking for things yet “.

Carmen Pena Lopez wants to make it clear that this class work did not have any scandalous content or anything against the emeritus or the monarchical institution. “The interview did not contain anything compromising. It was only an interview of a normal girl, with enough critical capacity, to the King, “he concludes.

Just Letizia, Fermín Bouza, Carmen Pena and some friends of the professor are aware of what that document collects, today with an undeniable historical value. Will it end up being leaked one day in some media or will the last will of its owner be respected, as to date?

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