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- 0:05I am chained to him and I must honor him and obey him as a
- 0:09good woman shall do to her lord in sorrow of losing my kingdom. That
- 0:12was his conviction, that of Doña Urraca for obeying his father Alfonso. It
- 0:16is this legitimate heiress the Leonese throne that marries Alfonso I of Aragon, the
- 0:21reckless and tasted saint sebastian in word authors with welcome pink, well found.
- 0:26Thank you very much, for a pleasure we were talking a moment ago that
- 0:30you discovered to me a woman who already existed, but that unfortunately, I
- 0:34was going to say, almost the requested one or in three walls, between
- 0:37two alfonsos. It was blocked, it was tied, between two Alfonso,
- 0:41his father, Alfonso the Good, King Good, the reconqueror of Toledo and
- 0:45his son, Alfonso the Emperor. And the story erased her. He paired
- 0:49her there in the middle and reduced her to practically nothingness and how little was
- 0:54written about it, what was said about her was all bad, all lousy.
- 0:58You start his story to a scene. I' m going to say
- 1:02brutal, brutal by the way the king pretends. I don' t know
- 1:07how to finally say it, but well, I' m going to read
- 1:08a paragraph. If it' s better, he doesn' t like the
- 1:12ladies. Whether I had any doubts. It' s been cleared tonight,
- 1:18but I' m not just anyone I can force or scorn. I am
- 1:22the lion' s sovereign I swear to You that now we will speak to
- 1:26You and to God who will learn to respect me. I think it was
- 1:29a brutal abuse in every way. Or pretend good. Alfonso mistreated him,
- 1:34this he already denounced in a letter, beat him and, indeed, did
- 1:38not feel like for women. In Christian chronicles one speaks of a warrior,
- 1:42a warrior monk, and in Muslim chronicles one clearly hints that he was homosexual
- 1:47like him. He marries himself to steal the throne, to occupy the throne
- 1:52of a lion, and to rule in the two kingdoms, for according to
- 1:57the customs of the day, he must consummate. Marriage is not written in
- 2:00history. There' s no chronicle that says what happened that night. I
- 2:04imagine it based on what we know, on the data we know and on
- 2:07the novel I write a scene. Indeed, or describes a harsh scene that
- 2:12is somewhat like what I imagine would happen safely, but clearly magpie. She
- 2:16wasn' t just an ordinary woman. She wasn' t a woman who
- 2:20let herself be mastered. She was a queen and had been educated to be
- 2:23queen and defended herself and defended herself all her life from that aggression and from
- 2:27that pretense and paid very dearly. But he never bowed. Never and to
- 2:30me that gave me an admiration. What the chronicles tell, and I say
- 2:35that the chronicles are terrible, they treat her with no affection or respect.
- 2:39But what they tell of the battles he gave, of the denunciations he made,
- 2:43of the number of allies he sought on both sides in order to defend
- 2:46his throne and defend his crown, to me he seduced from the very first
- 2:51moment it seemed to me a truly admirable, extraordinary, extraordinary woman who deserved
- 2:55to be rescued from this mistreatment of the sea, the treatment of her husband
- 3:00and the mistreatment of history. Yeah, a few things you said. She
- 3:05was perhaps or was really the first woman who is able to write a letter,
- 3:09to denounce that abuse, the first one we know. Of course,
- 3:14the first one we know and know that letter and it is transcribed sent to
- 3:17his cousin Fernando, in which they tell him you know how many times his
- 3:23hands have soiled my face and his feet have hit me, etcetera. In
- 3:27other words, it denounces the mistreatment even describes it, as, of course,
- 3:31it would not be the first battered woman of either the people or the
- 3:35nobility. But that was carried away in silence as a humiliation. The humiliated
- 3:40one was the abused one, it was not the abuser and, consequently,
- 3:44to have the courage to denounce him, to say so and to reveal himself
- 3:47to that, to me it seems very admirable, very admirable and very much
- 3:53ahead of his time. Yes, especially because of what you say it was
- 3:54one thing that had to be shut up exactly, it took sunbathing until four
- 4:00days ago, in historical terms, s or three it does expand by history.
- 4:05Well, then, magpie, not magpie, denounces him to see it
- 4:08denounced, does not denounce a police station, because it is in the twelfth
- 4:12century, but denounced it of how you could denounce those things Then in a
- 4:15letter to a relative, etcetera. He put it in writing that it was
- 4:20necessary to have courage. That' s it. Besides, you said something
- 4:24else. She revealed herself, but revealed herself. I don' t know
- 4:30if we' re more as queen talking about this relationship with Alfonso, but
- 4:34as a woman. Indeed, what happens is that I understand why, placing
- 4:39myself in the context of the 13th century, I understand that the force to
- 4:44reveal itself would be given by having been educated to be queen. I wonder
- 4:47if a woman, anyone, even a woman of noble origin, educated to
- 4:53submit to everything to her husband, as every good woman should do, that
- 4:56this is a literal extract of the capitulations that Curracalla and Alfonso signed, would
- 5:01have had the courage to do so. A woman whom they would not have
- 5:04educated for that, to command, to rule, to reign, would have
- 5:09the courage to do so. I do not know, I do not know,
- 5:12in any case, of her you and that is worthy to be recognized,
- 5:15because it would not be easy even for a queen. Another of the
- 5:18things that I said clearly says perhaps they did not breed illegitimate children in their
- 5:25lovers who filled with merit without hiding, because I, being a woman,
- 5:30cannot make it clear. And here we go back to the same thing that
- 5:33she had been raised to be queen. The kings, all the kings who
- 5:36had preceded her practically everything, had their state of convenience marriages with a queen
- 5:42with whomever she was and then her sentimental life and sex life solved her with
- 5:46her lovers, with her concubines, with whom she had children. They loved
- 5:50those children and gave them great positions outside in the nobility or in the clergy
- 5:56or in their marriages whatever it was and she was just as queen as they
- 6:00were, and so she felt. Why wouldn' t I have lovers,
- 6:01why wouldn' t I have children with those lovers? She was the Queen
- 6:03of Leon and as such she behaved exactly and the story tells us that she
- 6:08had at least two lovers that we know the Count of Kandespina and Count González
- 6:13de Lara, Don Pedro Gonzalezdrara, and that is that we know best.
- 6:16He had one more. But in the end, those two and at least
- 6:18two children have passed through history with Don Pedro González de Lara. Well,
- 6:23then, it' s inconceivable, it' s admirable. It' s
- 6:27the 12th century. We are facing a truly empowered woman in the literal sense
- 6:30of the exact word. She had power, exercised that power, and felt
- 6:34that power. She was an empowered woman in the early 13th century, who
- 6:41has not had any recognition. No, on the contrary, zero, on
- 6:44the contrary, history, even recent history? There' s some recent biography
- 6:49of him, he' s aseptic absolute. He talks about his diplomas,
- 6:53which he signed, about the documents that are preserved. Well, maybe you
- 6:56had to write a novel so we could say value these attitudes that history cools.
- 7:02Maybe she can' t, but it seems to me she deserved it
- 7:05and more than being honored and recognized for what it was for this value than
- 7:11you or not. That' s the focus of your book. That'
- 7:13s the focus of my book, that part of this woman and that'
- 7:17s why she believes Muniadona' s character. There we are going to be
- 7:19able to love her and admire her without having to justify them, because she
- 7:29is a bit the one present in that first vent of how she is treating
- 7:33me exactly on that wedding night that I imagine terrifying according to the character that
- 7:40describes the horrible story. Yes, this character is your look, half the
- 7:44story and I think you created it for how I' m going to say
- 7:48it, to really tell how you like it or how it really is Doña
- 7:54Urraca. Not how you like it, but how that exact human part is.
- 7:57I have created this character to become an eyewitness to the life of Doña
- 8:03Urraca, to act as a special envoy to the life of Doña Urraca.
- 8:07Let' s say that' s what' s of interest. A little
- 8:09spy, a little good spy. I am the special envoy to her life
- 8:13and to share intimacies and to be able beyond the historical character of which we
- 8:20know something, not much, but something we know, to recreate the human
- 8:24character of flesh and bone, to restore her heart, her feelings, her
- 8:30skin, her emotions, everything that history omits or when it speaks of them,
- 8:33refers to her as reckless, as a deceiver, as a pusillanime,
- 8:39that is, as a woman who is a log, but as a woman
- 8:43pretends to exercise power if she is a woman. Well, she is indeed
- 8:45an empowered woman and exercises her and I intend to look at her with indulgence,
- 8:50even with admiration in many cases and sometimes also with a critical spirit.
- 8:52Eh, because ammonia also sometimes criticizes and tries to stop her feet as a
- 8:58maiden or a lady could stop her queen' s feet in the 12th century,
- 9:03which was very little margin. I really like those first scenes where Maniadona
- 9:07is super innocent, super childish, and Mrs Urraca knows perfectly well what she
- 9:15wants from her. Then I like how you describe it when you say Maniaduna
- 9:18was for Mrs Urraca, a harmless person, powerless or ambitious, an anonymous
- 9:22girl, without family, dependent influence, grateful and not completely foolish. In
- 9:28other words, it served him for his purposes of espionage, such as to
- 9:33render him discreet services without being noticed. She wasn' t completely dumb.
- 9:37She wouldn' t have been too foolish, for she might not have served
- 9:41him, but what she was was was innocuous. Of course, poor Urraca
- 9:43lived her whole life surrounded by enemies. I had them in my house.
- 9:50Her husband, his enemy, his half- sister, was his enemy,
- 9:52his son. At one point, since his son' s guardians were his
- 9:56enemies, his nobles lived to see himself truly put into a nest of vipers,
- 10:01and I imagine he would need an ally, someone to be able to
- 10:07trust and find him. And he found it. He found it. In
- 10:09addition, she was freed from marriage, because that is another important part,
- 10:11and book of marrying a widower who could be her grandfather, which was very
- 10:15common at the time, that girls, without fortune, could only sell their
- 10:18youth and their reproductive capacity, which was basically for what women served, to
- 10:24bear children and often die in the effort, because it was the first cause
- 10:28of female mortality. You used to talk about Doña Urraca as they considered her
- 10:35within what she was a woman in the sible. Back then. There is
- 10:39a part of the story too or there is an adjective that focuses on a
- 10:43sexually insatiable woman. That' s why I had so many lovers. I
- 10:46mean, we go back and turn it around and separate men and women exactly.
- 10:54In other words, male sexual appetites are perfectly understandable, perfectly tolerable and
- 11:00inevitable given the male nature. But instead, a woman who has her sexual
- 11:05desires, her sexual needs, her sexual appetites, is a nymphomaniac or just
- 11:09about, is insatiable. That was the mentality of the time, and that
- 11:13' s what Urraca faced. I also say I am the Queen of Lion
- 11:16and I am going to have my lovers. You see that history or historiography,
- 11:20in its machismo, in its absolute misogeny. He considers that Urraca had
- 11:26those lovers because he was a little less than a nymphomaniac and then they were
- 11:30with her for political interest also to meditate in the Court. Yeah, and
- 11:33I understand it' s not, why she couldn' t really love these
- 11:37nobles and they loved her. Why couldn' t there be a love story
- 11:41there, within which she fulfilled her obligations to the extent that she could obligations,
- 11:46her state marriages, etcetera. Why she couldn' t fall in love
- 11:50and live a love story with a man who loved her too. No,
- 11:52well, I really like that part. I wish, I wish it were.
- 11:54I wish, because why isn' t it that we all have the
- 12:01right to love at some point in our life, As much as I and
- 12:05I understand that I also like that license as a nuño. Nuño is a
- 12:09very interesting character because, of course, a moment ago we were talking about
- 12:15this relationship that the queen has with this Maiden, but also she doesn'
- 12:20t just understand how, being queen, she can be with a lover until
- 12:26she falls in love exactly. It' s just that one of the things
- 12:28I' ve been trying to create in this novel since I was sixty-
- 12:33five years old is a relationship of these beautiful deep- seated sinceres that are
- 12:39born among women from time to time, not without any sexual content or anything.
- 12:41Hemor of friendship, of love, of authentic affection, of loyalty between
- 12:46women and that understanding, which arises from shared emotions, from shared experiences and
- 12:50effectively, Muniadone lives immersed in the prejudices of his time. She doesn'
- 12:58t understand that a queen can have a lover and can risk even her throne
- 13:01to spend a night with her lover, etcetera, etcetera, until she herself
- 13:05falls in love. She falls madly in love with a gentleman who looks at
- 13:09her with tender eyes for the first time in her life. It' s
- 13:13also something that' s happened to all of us. I think I do,
- 13:16and then, then you get it. All clear, you understand it
- 13:18not through the reasoning of the brain, but through the skin and heart.
- 13:24It is feeling the same, feeling the same of empathy in the literal sense.
- 13:28Exactly. You speak also when the king and insult killing the poor meadow
- 13:33she had forgiven him, would punish him in some way and well, I
- 13:37don' t know if it' s historical that, those historicals are historical
- 13:41episode. He kills her in front of her, that' s another way
- 13:45to denigrate her. Not sure. In the end, she had already made
- 13:46a decision. Indeed, it is a way of saying here the king.
- 13:50I' m exactly me and you' re my wife and she' s
- 13:52the queen. She is not the consort of Alfonso, She is the queen
- 13:56of Leon and she has perfect right to forgive, to exercise the right of
- 14:01grace over whomever she pleases. And then the king humiliates her. And that
- 14:03' s a historical episode, like almost everyone in the novel, which affects
- 14:07the relationship between Urraca and Alfonso in Nigra' s and she, well,
- 14:11she reacts as she may at that time not be much, not because she
- 14:16is weak, but she never submits, never ever. She always reveals herself
- 14:20and always seeks the way to overcome herself and she, in the end,
- 14:24retains the throne and bequeaths it to her son integrated impact, which he cannot
- 14:28say exactly that he is going to Portugal, she defends it now that you
- 14:33have said that she continues, that she never stops falling, that she already
- 14:39pursues everything you just said. I' m going to go to a very
- 14:43important thing. I think it is that we forget the past, the importance
- 14:46of the past and the error of wanting to erase that part of the past,
- 14:52this little parenthesis that, indeed, because we have a lot to learn,
- 14:56is that. That' s why I have so many historical novels dedicated
- 15:00to women, because sometimes we think that feminism we invented twenty years ago,
- 15:05or at least a hundred years ago and not. No Spain is a nation
- 15:09of strong women, because it is that Spain is taxed by the matriarchate astú
- 15:13and in pre- Christian and pre- Roman Asturias. The women were very
- 15:16powerful, many were clan chiefs, looking for wives, their brothers. It
- 15:20was one of the matriarchal societies that existed in our environment, the Celts,
- 15:24etcetera. And all this influenced the history of Spain very much, because all
- 15:28the repopulation inherent in the reconquest was made with vanquished women from the north,
- 15:33navarras, asturianas, Galician vascona women who came humbuds of that culture. And
- 15:37that explains Urraca. And that explains to her aunts, to her aunt Urraca
- 15:41and to her aunt Elvira, who were also armed to take. And that
- 15:43explained, for example, to the Great Queen Elizabeth of Castile. Isabelnos under
- 15:48a spaceship, came from a tradition. So when we women now think that
- 15:52we have freed ourselves and the younger women believe that it gives me a certain
- 15:58anger convinced from the moment that until its advent, the others were at home
- 16:02with the broken leg that we were not fools, no. We were foolish
- 16:07and submissive and obedient, no longer, but not even urrayed in the 12th
- 16:11century. It is true that a Hispanic Christian woman had more power in the
- 16:1711th century than in the 19th century, because she lost it. They were
- 16:21losing it at the end of the reconquest, at the end of the war,
- 16:23the life of borders, let' s say women were being increasingly locked
- 16:30in their golden cages, increasingly oppressed and increasingly subjected to that absolute dominion they
- 16:34had not known for centuries. But let' s go magpie. Let us
- 16:37say that it is the ultimate exponent of that rebellion or of that ability to
- 16:45exercise power. From Leona, Palencia, from Palencia, San De Es still
- 16:49to Santiago, from Santiago, Oviedo and Oviedo, Aragon, twenty years riding
- 16:52because the reign or was made on the throne. As much as we want
- 16:57to see that scene over and over again it was also a suffering of one
- 17:02' s own body, bearing in mind that a woman varies the male.
- 17:06There' s one detail you talked about the gloves, although he was already
- 17:11wearing gloves, the reins, of course, riding his hands would rub perhaps
- 17:15the least damage. Well, it had to be smashed. She had to
- 17:18be torn apart by a woman we know had four children, plus the abortions
- 17:22she was sure had more than one, but she gave birth four times when
- 17:27she spent the day on horseback, because the queens went on horseback, they
- 17:30didn' t go by car, they didn' t go in a hand
- 17:33chair or any of that which is a game of throne. They were either
- 17:36on horseback or on mules. Very often riding is very tired. Whoever'
- 17:41s finished knows that. In the rain, in the cold, in the
- 17:44unrelenting sun. Yeah, they wore veils and hats and gloves and stuff,
- 17:48but it' d be smashed inside and out. I' m sure he
- 17:52' d suffer from terrifying hemorrhoids. He ate as he could sleep in castles,
- 17:59in convents, or many times at the base. It was a very
- 18:02hard life, because it was an itinerant court. He dressed more than once
- 18:04in iron to lead his troops in combat. She had a very hard life
- 18:11that she endured and I think that she would have been able to give up
- 18:15the throne, i e accept that her husband would rule in her name and
- 18:21she would retire to any castle to live peacefully. And he never did,
- 18:22never did. She was locked up, she was locked up once, yes,
- 18:26but well, she was released, but she was locked up by her
- 18:27husband Yes, yes, yes, she was sent to learn and locked up
- 18:30That' s historic. Yes, yes, and she was locked up by
- 18:33a gloomy castle there, located almost on the border with the Taifa of Zaragoza,
- 18:37but her noble nobles and lover did not come, that is, a
- 18:41very chivalrous, very beautiful thing, she was released by her lover. Of
- 18:44course, and that' s historical, and he saved her and freed her,
- 18:48he got her out of there. It' s just that life gave
- 18:49magpie without the need to invent anything. Is it already a novel in itself?
- 18:52Is it exciting, is it itself a novel? What I have done
- 18:56has been, therefore, to create these characters to transform them into my gaze,
- 19:00to spin events a little to give them a succession and then, as
- 19:07I say, to try, to incarnate the character, not to give it
- 19:11skin, to give it heart, to give it feeling, that is,
- 19:15to see it as a mother, for example. The only thing the story
- 19:15says about her is that you argue with her son. I' m sure
- 19:19he' d love that son, especially when he was little, and he
- 19:22' d worry about him being raised away from her, like he always did
- 19:26back then. But I' m sure he would. He would worry about
- 19:30him, want to know if he was okay or more, it would hurt
- 19:33to have to face him for the throne. I' m sure the feeling
- 19:37of a mother. Let' s go to the Mother Union, son,
- 19:41I think that can never be broken. I think it' s impossible not
- 19:44to love your child as much as it makes you suffer for so much that
- 19:47you do. I think that' s in the genres. Or that'
- 19:51s it And for that, I think, you might have to be a
- 19:52woman to understand. And since there have been so few historians, women or
- 19:56the middle ages, none of the chroniclers are men, all without is and
- 20:00ninety- nine percent are clerics. Then it is clear how these chroniclers have
- 20:07the ability to understand female emotions, mother' s love, and so on,
- 20:11the zero- lead tes, and they are very noticeable in the chronicles.
- 20:15Of course, the story could be written from a woman' s point
- 20:18of view. Now that you want to change history, we' re going
- 20:22to face it from the point of view. That' s what I'
- 20:23m going to do for a few years through the spell You regret that I
- 20:30' m from Covadonga, only two. I' m always in that with
- 20:32woman' s eyes. It is always true what Isabel San Sebastián looks like,
- 20:36after having written, because one thing is before the process. And now
- 20:40since he rests, he rests, I will say he rests, but with
- 20:42a lot of movement. Fortunately, it lies well four editions, a little
- 20:48more. What predictions, four editions. If he' s gone out to
- 20:51the door, yes, yes, he' s going like a guy,
- 20:52doña, urraca, ride finished. My gaze is one of even greater admiration
- 20:56than I felt when I, when the character caught me, My initial idea
- 21:00was to write about his son, especially about Alfonso, the Emperor. And
- 21:06when I started reading and I saw the mother, I opened up with my
- 21:07editors, I told them, I mean, I got magpie. This novel
- 21:11is going to be just magpie. And they thought it was okay. And
- 21:14as I was writing, I was reading, I was studying and I was
- 21:18writing and I was growing my admiration. And now that I see it as
- 21:21a whole, yes and above all, that I see, for example,
- 21:26the impact that this woman left, not on the chronicles, where it was
- 21:29null and very negative, but on the mentality of the people. You see
- 21:33that recently a bottle of wine came to me from a town in Castile where
- 21:40the memory of Urraca remains very alive, because she granted you rights to that
- 21:44town, freed you from the dependency of the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos
- 21:48and gave you rights, that is, gave you liberties, privileges. And
- 21:52so vivid is the memory of that that happened nine hundred years ago that they
- 21:56have made today a wine in memory of that queen. And this happens to
- 21:57many villages have written to me for reding a lot of people. You would
- 22:00come to present your book to our people, where we love Doña Urraca for
- 22:03such and donkey, that is, beyond the curse of official history, Urraca
- 22:07left a lot to mark in Castile, in León, in his kingdom,
- 22:11in many villages. He left a lot of footprint because he granted you rights,
- 22:17because he dictated privileges, because well, because people wanted it? A
- 22:19lot of people loved her? So, seen now, from the perspective of
- 22:23time, my admiration is much mayayor, much greater than I felt at first,
- 22:27the bold, the brave, or the fearless of having been male.
- 22:32That' s what it would have been called for sure. But of course,
- 22:34by doing the same things, as a woman, you cannot be called
- 22:38that recklessly deceiving Kingdom desolation. All those lindennesses said of her better evil of
- 22:44man than kindness of woman is written in compostelan history. It' s just
- 22:49that we think there' s machismo now. Well, in the 13th century,
- 22:52I' m telling you, that' s why this woman' s
- 22:57doing a lot of things, but a lot of it. It wasn'
- 23:00t the only one, eh, but then, for example, well Berenguela
- 23:04was regent of her son or Berengela was also a queen of arms to take
- 23:07that came a little bit later, but never girded the crown, She never
- 23:11exercised and Joan, who was also queen of full right, managed to annul
- 23:17Joan, Joanna between her husband, her father and her son, the poor
- 23:19one had worse luck. She was still completely annulled, the one who went
- 23:23crazy and locked up there in a house. Then. Urraca was the pioneer,
- 23:30the first and let' s say one of the strongest until Isabel'
- 23:33s attention. I was telling you a moment ago that I discovered a character
- 23:37that I didn' t know had to be, that is, what is
- 23:41the character of Doña Urraca. We know him. By the way. I
- 23:45' m asking you another question. I don' t know if it'
- 23:47s any worse what historians have done to ignore or ignore it altogether, because
- 23:52they' ve done both. But I think both things have gone hand in
- 23:55hand. In the end, they have succeeded in erasing it, erasing that
- 23:59of n history and that it is a form of discrimination that women have historically
- 24:06suffered and that today suffers in the Islamic world absolutely erase it. That'
- 24:11s what we' re trying to do with women erasing it and not,
- 24:14sir, some have left a mark and I' m telling you, the
- 24:18magpie print is especially endearing, because there are not the chronicles, but in
- 24:21the memory of the people, in the collective memory. Another thing that I
- 24:22do not want to forget that we are already finishing, is that she was
- 24:26also the first woman who dictated a forum where equality between men and women was
- 24:30contemplated. Is that very important? Is that very important? It had never
- 24:33been issued a forum specifying that the rights contained in that document were granted to
- 24:37men and women alike. This is something that is reflected in the chronicles that
- 24:45I do not see, in the novel or drawing the scene, the stupefying
- 24:51face of the clergyman who is copying that order. But this is and the
- 24:57expression of the queen who tells her what you fail, the ear or the
- 25:00understanding brothers, yes, I have said for men and women alike, that
- 25:04is, she, for me, was well aware that her condition as a
- 25:08woman and that her condition as a woman did not make her inferior to any
- 25:14man. It was Reina Vale. I don' t know if she hadn
- 25:18' t been a queen and if they hadn' t educated her like they
- 25:21educated her, she would have had the same conscience, but the truth is
- 25:22that she had it and she defended it. And I' m telling you,
- 25:26he dictated that forum that I come out without precedent, that is,
- 25:30if magpie had been French or English. I assure you, everyone would know
- 25:32her. If Spanish feminism were a little bit, it had a mentality,
- 25:38a little more open, let' s say, it was a little more
- 25:42I would say, because it was not so closed, exactly, not so
- 25:48sectarian, that is, it was not so ideological and had a slightly broader
- 25:53conception of the function of feminism. I would demand that this woman who died
- 25:56on March 8th for more without a rid in a birth, in a match
- 26:00like the vast majority of women. But well and she' s going to
- 26:04have a son and her lover too who died was also going to have a
- 26:07son of her lover who also died on March 8. You see if it
- 26:11' s premonitory that date on Women' s Day. Well, I have
- 26:14never heard in any feminist act to claim the first queen and there was not
- 26:18in Spain the first woman who planted in the face of mistreatment. I'
- 26:22m never preparing myself in Pozzolo for toy day. I' m here for
- 26:26Women' s Day this year. In a way, I' m preparing
- 26:27a tribute to Urraca, because she deserves it. Really. She is a
- 26:32truly extraordinary woman and very little known, because even if she is on the
- 26:40throne sitting there because the cover is beautiful, it is clear that she did
- 26:45not stay as a consort. She ends something, as we have said for
- 26:47twenty years, twenty years, seventeen, sixteen exactly and nothing. Thank you
- 26:52for bringing Doña Urraca back to the reckless one. Thanks to You, thank
- 26:56you so much for reading it, for sharing this adventure with us and for
- 27:04understanding with the heart and skin of Doña Urraca, as happened to me,
- 27:07I think so, although there he appears sitting on the throne his reign was
- 27:11not exactly a throne. That throne was a foal of torture, I believe,
- 27:15that crown was a crown of thorns and still defended them against wind and
- 27:19tide. And that is very worthy of admiration, it seems to me,
- 27:23well, thank you very much for bringing her truly degent Isabel. A lot
- 27:26is very necessary. Thank you, I think it' s necessary. I
- 27:30' ve been since the 8th century, since the matriarchy astute that appears in
- 27:37my novel As You I' m rescuing history through women' s eyes.
- 27:40Yes, the pilgrim is the pilgrimage to Santiago told by a woman, the
- 27:45Visigoth, which is the story of a maiden paying tribute to the owner,
- 27:48which is the story of a border woman of which there were many. He
- 27:52' s not a character that left a mark. Let' s have the
- 27:56story with first name and last name. But I' m telling you.
- 27:57The story is of a misogy. The medieval history is of a misogyny that
- 28:03makes ridiculous the one you could see in Spain of the 20th century, of
- 28:07the 19th century. It' s very, very, very misogenous terrible.
- 28:11So nothing to go on, you have to be serious fifteen- story apartment.
- 28:18Thank you very much.