About a month after the death of Juan Gomez-Acebo At the age of 54, his family and closest friends gathered at the Cathedral of the Armed Forces in Madrid to celebrate a funeral mass in his honor.
Demonstrating their close relationship with the deceased’s brothers, Simoneta, Bruno and Beltrán Gómez-Acebo, almost the entire royal family wanted to support them in this difficult ordeal and pay tribute with their presence to the son of the Infanta Doña Pilar, who had been fighting for several years against a cancer that he unfortunately could not beat.
A funeral that marked the reunion of Kings Felipe and Letizia with King Juan Carlos six months after their last public meeting, precisely in the funeral of Fernando Gómez-AceboJuan’s brother, who died on March 1 from respiratory problems.
But on this occasion, the kings and the emeritus they kept their distance and they arrived at the Military Cathedral within minutes of each other, thus avoiding the expected image of father and son together again.
According to Europa Press, before taking his place in the front row, the King went to the place where the King Emeritus was to make a significant gesture to him, shaking his hand affectionately in the presence of Queen Letizia while the emeritus returned the gesture with a smile, a moment that the cameras would not have captured.
Unaware that the cameras were capturing what was happening inside the cathedral, The emeritus showed his closest side and sincere, full of affectionate gestures with Juan Gómez-Acebo’s son, Nicolás, 11, whom she shook hands with in a gesture of spontaneity after talking with him for a while, while Don Felipe consoled his cousin Bruno with a strong hug.
