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Very recently we have known that last summer Letizia and Cristina agreed in the Marivent Palace during the summer holidays of the monarchs, something that had not leaked at all so far. And it seems that both maintained a strong confrontation because Letizia sat at the table wearing sportswear, something that her sister -in -law did not seem good and reproached him, causing a monumental anger of the queen.

Surely it was an isolated event that made our queen jump. But in addition, it is known that Letizia is not at all in accordance with the way Cristina is managing her relationship with Iñaki Undargarín. It seems, Letizia and a large part of society do not understand that her husband's sister refuses to put an end to marriage. And it is that the father of his children even lives with another woman: Ainhoa Armentia. It is commented that it even continues to carry the married ring, something that outrages Letizia, that does not conceive that attitude as a woman after everything that happened.

A radical change in your relationship

As we said, that the queen and her sister -in -law do not get along is not new or current, although during the first years of Letizia's arrival to the royal family they got along really well. Even the cousin of the then princess of Asturias wrote in the book he published about it, Goodbye Princess , that Iñaki and Cristina were the "only normal people in the family." In fact, they were one of his great support during his courtship, getting to stay on his floor in Barcelona and going out to eat and dinner by restaurants in the city. His relationship was so narrow that they came to buy their engagement ring to Iñaki Urdangarín.

It is even commented that Letizia was very relieved with her brother -in -law Iñaki about the rigidity of the protocols and what was hard for her to adapt to her new life. He helped her in many new situations having lived something similar. Something practically impossible to do with his other brother -in -law at the time, since Marichalar was an aristocrat accustomed to the flatness totally away from the reality of the journalist. With the Infanta Elena never understood himself; Its character is radically opposite to Letizia and it is said that they did not even have conversation issues.

A distancing that comes from afar

The first moments of tension arrived during the baptism of the little girl of the Undargarín: Irene. Cristina asked Letizia to host her in -laws for the event at her home in the zarzuela, to which the current queen refused claiming that she was pregnant (from Princess Leonor) and that she did not feel like having some strangers in her home . Letizia's discomfort during the baptism were more than commented at the time, although without knowing what was due.

From there, the situation was downhill and without brakes. A few months later, Letizia became a mother and left aside the nephews. Cristina has never had a close relationship with her nieces: Leonor and Sofia. So things were getting cooled, causing a more pronounced distancing.

Another very commented disagree was during Iñaki's birthday party, which was held at his home in Pedralbes: Barcelona. As the celebration attendees commented, the former Handball player asked for help from his brother -in -law with the house mortgage and he reproached him to have bought it if he could not face the payment. The conversation caused Felipe and Letizia's anger, who departed from the group and spent the rest of the evening in a corner and without practically interacting with the other guests. They got to pose for the press but serious and reluctantly.

The irregularities of Undargarín

When the crimes committed by Iñaki began to come to light, which even cost him the penalty of jail, Letizia took off the engagement ring he had bought for his brothers -in -law. When the situation became irreversible shortly after, Felipe asked her sister to divorce her husband. Idea Cristina thought that she left Letizia, which distanced them even more.

Cristina chose to support her husband in such a difficult situation, coming to sit on the bench of the defendants and visit him in jail, which meant a great distancing from a large part of her family.

The first to find out that there were some photos of Iñaki with another woman was Letizia herself, who personally called her sister -in -law to warn her of the situation. Away from the royal family, it was thought that Iñaki's new relationship would mean his definitive breakup and that both Cristina and her children would have an approach to Zarzuela that, for the moment, has not occurred.

Encounters without even greeting

There have not been many occasions to see these women together in recent years, but they have coincided in events beyond the closest family; as in the burial of Constantine of Greece, in which they did not even greeted themselves. Irene's graduation, Cristina's little daughter, has taken place, to which her cousins Leonor and Sofia have not even attended.

The distance seems insurmountable and there are two practically irreconcilable elements in their relationship. On the one hand, there is Cristina's close relationship with her father. For all, the effort of the royal house is known to keep King Emeritus as far as possible from Zarzuela given everything that has been uncovered about him.

On the other hand, we have Cristina's obstinacy for not formalizing divorce with Iñaki Undargarín, even continuing to carry her married ring, which does not enter the head. Cristina and Iñaki were expected during these first months of the year, they signed legal separation, but the moment has not arrived. We do not know if it is because Cristina hopes to recover her husband someday or if she will follow the attitude her mother took in her day of supporting humiliations and infidelities to maintain her married status. Maybe summer reveals the answers to all this.