Once upon a time there was a prince who couldn’t be a prince and a princess who couldn’t be a princess. This was decided by the circumstances of the countries of origin of our two protagonists of this love story. But there is no exile that avoids joining two souls of blue blood. This is the love story of Juan Carlos and Sofía.
Juan Carlos and Sofía, from one wedding another wedding arises
- Some insist on affirming that the marriage of Juan Carlos de Borbón and Sofía de Grecia was for love. Others claim the opposite. It is true that this couple has never stood out for wasting passion and that infidelity rumors have been incessant although discreet, due to blue blood. As true as that over the years they have established themselves as a marriage that carried out its role with professionalism. Sofia, at least, has fully complied.
- Be that as it may, two young people Juan Carlos and Sofía met on a cruise organized by Sofía’s mother for all the young European royalty. They say that the cruise had matchmaking attempts, but with Juan Carlos and Sofía the plan did not work because neither one nor the other felt Cupid’s arrows. It was a few years later, at the wedding of the Dukes of Kent, when these royal bachelors noticed each other and, they say, even fell in love.
- And since the arrangement or falling in love suited almost everyone, since both were of blue blood and knew the obligations of royalty as well as the privileges of exile, Juan Carlos and Sofía were married in a multiple ceremony in Athens in 1962. Since then, they have tried to project the image of a well-matched couple, although gossips say that there are not many smiles or looks of love in the palace.
Juan Carlos de Borbón and Sofía from Greece, love by obligation
- Indeed, the marriage of Juan Carlos and Sofía has worked perfectly, we do not know if out of devotion or obligation. The couple did not have everything on their side, since their position as future kings of Spain was subject to the political situation of the moment. In that sense, in the end they were happy and ate partridges sitting on their throne surrounded by their offspring.
- But this is the image of this couple that stands out the most, that of an effective team, rather than that of two lovers. What could have been a beautiful love story of princes and princesses, ended up in a lifelong marriage, of those who keep up appearances? Although sometimes, rumors are more real than appearances.
- Juan Carlos’s infidelities are publicly accepted while Sofía weathers the storm as a wife, as a mother and as a queen. The sentimental future of this couple is up in the air after the king’s abdication because, once they are retired, it may not be necessary to maintain the role. Or maybe there’s still some love left.