Naty Abascal and the murky past shadowing the Feria title
A photo of Naty Abascal and her children in the Caribbean in the 1990s. Thirty years on, the Feria title carries the accusations against their father.
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Naty Abascal and her children: 1990s high society and the weight of a surname
An old photograph on a Caribbean beach captures the look of Spain's 1990s high society: Naty Abascal, a powerful matriarch, and her two sons, Luis and Rafael, blond and tanned boys. Three decades later, one of them is the current Duke of Feria. The idyllic image has a flip side that the press archives have never closed.
What "mañaco" means in high-society slang
The conversation around that photograph antiestéticatures a loaded word: "mañaco". The definition in circulation: a child of 12 or 13. It is applied here to the children of aristocrats with influential mothers, raised amid privilege and luxury summers.
The father and the published accusations
The shadow over the story is the father, referred to as "Papuchi". Outlets such as El País and El Tiempo have published reports on alleged sensual conduct with minors. The chronicles use explicit terms, but no court ruling has been cited. Thirty years later, the son's public image has managed to "clean up" a title his father left tainted. The records, however, are not erased by appearances.
The inheritance of the surname remains an open question. The 1990s photograph is still there, perfect. Off camera, the archive of Spanish high society still has blank pages.
An old photograph on a Caribbean beach captures the look of Spain's 1990s high society: Naty Abascal, a powerful matriarch, and her two sons, Luis and Rafael, blond and tanned boys. Three decades later, one of them is the current Duke of Feria. The idyllic image has a flip side that the press archives have never closed.
What "mañaco" means in high-society slang
The conversation around that photograph antiestéticatures a loaded word: "mañaco". The definition in circulation: a child of 12 or 13. It is applied here to the children of aristocrats with influential mothers, raised amid privilege and luxury summers.
The father and the published accusations
The shadow over the story is the father, referred to as "Papuchi". Outlets such as El País and El Tiempo have published reports on alleged sensual conduct with minors. The chronicles use explicit terms, but no court ruling has been cited. Thirty years later, the son's public image has managed to "clean up" a title his father left tainted. The records, however, are not erased by appearances.
The inheritance of the surname remains an open question. The 1990s photograph is still there, perfect. Off camera, the archive of Spanish high society still has blank pages.
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