As part of the commemoration of his first 10 years as king, last June Felipe VI granted the first noble titles of his reign to six Spanish personalities. One of the personalities distinguished by the Monarch was the singer Luz Casal (Boimorto, A Coruña, 1958), who has since been Marchioness of Luz y Paz, a name chosen by herself. “I felt like it represented two things, a tribute to my mother’s family and my name,” the artist explained Tuesday during his appearance on The revolt. The one from Boimorto also told David Broncano how she discovered and how she lived that moment: “I came from A Coruña to deliver the check for the festival that we do in the place where I was born and I was traveling around Asturias, and my partner told me that he would call me. A representative of the Royal House told me: ‘Hi Luz, the Kings have decided to grant you a title. The reaction was very banal, I never use those types of words, nor that nor many others. I said, ‘Yes!’
Casal says that the second phone call he received on this topic came a little later than expected: “Three months have passed without receiving any more news and I thought they had forgotten or that they had fixed it.” In the second contact, he was in a studio in Madrid to record one of the songs from his new album, which actually had “pretty tough” lyrics. “One of the first words I say is, ‘I allow myself to be mediocre, an arrogant, tacky, vulgar pimp,’ and I thought if they found out they would say there are other people who deserve it,” he explained.
“Are you a duchess?” Broncano had asked the Galician to raise the topic a few moments earlier. “I’m the last on the list,” Luz Casal replied doubtfully, later assuring that she felt like a village woman. “One of the most important things about this, besides being an honor and that’s what I feel, is that there are some people who I regularly like who are of lower status. So I can’t wait to agree,” added in a humorous tone the artist, who came to the program to present her latest album. I’ll allow myself to.
Among those who have received this title, in addition to Luz Casal, there are also the tennis player Rafa Nadal, named Marquis of Levante of Mallorca; Jaime Alfonsín Alonso, head of the Royal House for a decade, and head of the secretariat of the former Prince of Asturias for two decades, Marquis of Alfonsín, with Grandeza de España – the highest honor of the Spanish nobility; the swimmer Teresa Fernández Perales, Marquise of Perales; the biochemist Carlos López Otín, Marquis of Castillo de Lerés; and the photographer Cristina García Rodero, marquise of the Alcudia Valley. In this sense Casal mattered The revolt who was particularly enthusiastic about the decorations of García Rodero and López Otín because “they are friends”: “I felt very honoured.”
“They are exponents of excellence, both in the service of the Crown and in the fields of thought, culture, science, arts and sport”, the King said at the time to justify these new titles. “Here is a woman whose current state is a mixture of perplexity, joy, modesty and gratitude; to all this jumble of sensations are added the questions I have asked myself several times about why and above all whether I am worthy of this distinction”, Casal reacted in a post on his social networks when the news was made public.
Casal was one of the six awarded this hereditary title which belongs to the eldest son. The only one who doesn’t have it is López Otín, who is for life, since he himself asked Felipe VI that his distinction not be hereditary. As EL PAÍS reported at the time, these honorary rights cannot be sold or bought and their granting does not imply any financial remuneration. Furthermore, in some cases they may revert to the Crown when the title becomes vacant because it has not been exercised for some time.
