“These things always happen with children,” Infanta Elena said at the time.
This weekend, Froilán, the firstborn son of the infanta Elena and Jaime de Marichalar, has been involved in a new mess. While celebrating his 24th birthday at the Opium nightclub in Marbella, a shooting interrupted the party. Five people have been injured.
It is not the first time that the nephew of King Felipe VI has starred in some striking anecdote. The last one, four months ago, also had to do with a nightclub and a weapon: the security personnel of a nightlife venue in Madrid expelled him from the establishment, after having been bothering other users with a C02 gas gun.
Breach of restrictions
The list goes on. In January 2021, the “naughty & rdquor; Froilán was seen skipping curfew that existed in the Community of Madrid. Something that, apparently, runs in the family, since her sister Victoria Federica was also caught doing the same thing on several occasions.
Apparently, the measures to contain the spread of the pandemic did not please Froilán at any time. And it is that already in 2020, when he had not yet started vaccination and there were strong restrictions in force, he was surprised accompanied by some friends, no mask, smoking a cigarette. When he passed a police patrol, he was quick to put on his mask.
shot in the foot
But, without a doubt, the most outstanding story and for which Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y Borbón is well known -that is his full name-, is for the time he shot himself in the foot with a shotgun.
It happened in April 2012, when I was 13 years old. The Royal House issued a statement explaining that she was conducting “target practice & rdquor ;, although Queen Sofía let it slip that” they were hunting & rdquor ;. For her part, the infanta Elena wanted to downplay the event: “These things always happen with children.“, he said at the time. A type of incident that he also shares with his grandfather, Juan Carlos I, who at the age of 19 was the only witness who witnessed the death of his brother, Alfonso de Borbón, due to an “accident with a pistol”, according to the official version of the king’s house.
political demonstrations
Despite the fact that Casa Real tries to stay away from this type of event, Froilán attended a demonstration in Madrid’s Plaza de Colón in 2019 promoted by PP, Ciudadanos and Vox. It was about one rally to protest against Pedro Sanchez for its dialogue with the Generalitat of Catalonia, under the slogan ‘For a united Spain. Elections now!’ The king’s nephew decided to take part in it, but he did not ask the Zarzuela for permission.
A year earlier, in 2018, Froilán also did not hesitate to express his ideas in a tense encounter with leaders of the Communist Party in Andalusia (PCA) with whom he coincided in the cafeteria of an AVE. “You disgust me”he snapped at them.