Crowds cheered King Felipe and Queen Letizia during an event in Barcelona last week.
Their Majesties helped inaugurate a new tower for the Puig fashion and fragrance company. They met with executives and local leaders, including Pere Aragonès, the nationalist and anti-monarchist president of the autonomous community of Catalonia.
Observers are always keen to see how members of the Spanish Royal Family are received in Catalonia. They’re also keeping an eye on Queen Letizia, who has been weathering months of attacks from the political right and claims of infidelity.
The queen’s former brother-in-law has been claiming they had an affair years ago. He’s also accusing her of favoring Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has become a pariah among conservatives because of his amnesty deal with Catalan nationalists.
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