Nov 24, 2025
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Many Madrid residents and tourists walk past the mayor dozens of times on the way to the palace, without looking at the monument in memory of...
Many residents of Madrid and tourists have some time going down Calle Mayor on their way to the Royal Palace without noting the monument "in honor of the victoria Eugenia on May 31, 1906".She finds himself in the central door of the capital, number 43, and it was,, because she was on the day of the wedding of election, the anarchist Mateo Morral has dynamite of one of the balconies to finish the Monarch's life.
And this moment begins the series ENA - produced by La Cometa TV and RTVE - which, after more than two years of delay, will arrive tonight on La 1 (11:00 p.m.).Based on the novel of the same name by the author Pilar Ayre, ENA has Javier Olivares as the plot and show host (El Ministerio del Tiempo and Isabel).In addition to Olivares, the screenplay was written by Issa Sánchez, Daniel Corpus and Pablo Lara Toledo.The series is directed entirely by women: Anaïs Pareto, the director of the series as a whole, in addition to four chapters, and Estel Díaz, who will direct two chapters.
This is not a coincidence, because ENA is the story of a woman who became the queen's wife, but barbarism approached Spain;From the beginning, Spain did not accept him as his birthplace.
And Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was not Victoria Eugenie, she was Ena - pronounce the name with an E as if it were me - but to be suitable enough for the King of Spain, but above all for her mother, Maria Cristina de Habsburg-Lorraine, she had to give up not only her real name but also her religion, her nationality.Undoubtedly, Ena was and still is one of the most unknown queens of the Spanish, so it is not known that RTVE asked Javier Olivares to create a series about this woman more than two years ago.Olivares, a specialist in historical series, set out to reveal the queen's suffering and the woman's pain.
"One of the great problems that exists in fiction in Spain is that it moves from what is popular, which is a terrible contrast to the cultural, intellectual and educational level of a country. The level of national education depends on three factors: school, family and television. We walk with him the path that Alfonso
The story of Victoria Eugenia, but not of Eya, began in 1905. Alfonso Xiii traveled to His Logon to Cutoria de Eucia De Cutoria de Etê, but he refused. On the same side, through the Marquis of Prillobari, the king of Spain met Mina and fell in love with her.Alfonso and Ena's Ena and the village of AN to bring their love to fruition.
Ena is the story of a young English woman, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, who never dreamed of becoming Queen of Spain.For love, she left her family, traditions, culture and religion, even her country, which attacked her badly after King George refused her marriage to the King of Spain."Your marriage will not be a very happy one," the King of England told him when Ena asked for permission XIII.To Alphonse.him to old Spain, nor his pain, because his heirs presented it as a suspicion of hemophilia: "Never cry, never laugh. Let no one know your feelings."
He never felt accepted or loved, but he never isolated himself.Today in the traditional society, she was a symbol of Fashion and Feminine Traditions: She smoked, she did not stop to be queen when king Alfonso Xiii discovered her infidelity.She was afflicted with the curse of Hemophilia, a severe disease that took place in a series that hurt her husband.In exchange, the health of many Spaniards improved with a work that went down in history: The revolution of the Red Cross.
In addition to her native English, she is fluent in French, a popular language of the royal family, German and taught herself Spanish.Never, or ever.
When Eny was seen from the moment he was included in the series, he knew that the exposed project did, that he had found the right project, that the viewer, what was not said was never said and now he knew that this was the key to understanding this.edoso Xiii the tyranny of the level of tyranny, the relationship between the king and the queen Condom was broken.According to Olivells, the royal characters' door was broken open into the royal suites where the Emperor and Ita's carriages travel on their wedding day.
Victoria Eugenia's role was so important that Francisco Franco said of her that "she is the most professional, the most intelligent of the royal family."
The beginning of her marry with Alfonso Xiii was a happy.She had born - between 1907 and 1914 - six children.Sane marriage has fallen apart when hemophilia was discovered in his eldest son in 1910. He maintained a proper but cold and remote relationships with Maria Christina, Alphunsoo's mother.Eas was a coactions of the other during the first world war;Her mother-wonger was a swiman, who has greatly separated.It is said that the armrest of the chair in which was sitting to speak with Maria Christina retain the scratches that the married woman made with her mother-in-law was spoken with her mother-in-law.
His greatest friend was his cousin Beatrice of Saxony, although he felt betrayed by her.His greatest support in Spain was the Duchess of Victoria, who, along with Conchita Heredia, Luisa Reich and Rosario Lecerra, were his "indispensable wives".He created a political balance that was key to his son Juan and his grandson Juan Carlos, whose education led him from childhood.
"If he likes the stories that describe our current history, he talks to olives.
