Juana, la apasionada.

La tormentosa vida de Juana, hija de los Reyes Católicos, ha dado origen a sesudos estudios, películas más o menos peliculeras, telefilmes, leyendas y bulos. Ignoro qué patología le habría endosado la psiquiatría actual a una mujer que se trastornó por el hombre que le tocó oficialmente por marido. Tal vez los frecuentes partos le alteraron los factores de neurotransmisión. Y la mujer pasaba de la euforia pasional a la furia de los celos. Para más inri le tocó un mozo mujeriego, poco amigo de serle fiel. Eso sí, le cumplía en la cama, por lo que su ausencia le resultaba insoportable. Injustamente tratada, preterida y confinada en un castillo en condiciones infrahumanas, su memoria nos ha alcanzado como un permanente enigma. Dios salve a nuestra reina misteriosa,

"Also known as “Juana the Mad,” Juana de Castile became the first Queen of the Hapsburg dynasty when she married Philip of Burgundy in 1496. The couple started out madly in love—unusual for an arranged royal marriage—but things soon became complicated. Juana was as jealous as Philip was promiscuous, and his infidelities soon drove her into a state of extreme paranoia. Because her husband would chase after any attractive lady of the court, Juana took to only including old and ugly women in her retinue, and in one case she even have attacked a woman she believed to be her husband’s mistress. Desperate to for Philip to be true to her, Juana started consulting sorcerers and using love potions, and when her husband ignored her she even briefly went on a hunger strike. Whether or not Juana was actually “crazy,” is debatable, but this kind of erratic behavior—along with the desire of the men around her to usurp her power—eventually led to her being locked away in a castle for the latter part of her life.
Queen Juana’s eccentricities ramped up considerably in 1506, when Philip died after a brief illness. Utterly distraught, Juana constantly wore black and wept uncontrollably, and she even had the coffin opened on several different occasions so that she could kiss the feet of her husband’s corpse. Worried that her husband would cheat even in death, Juana forbid any women from coming near his coffin, even nuns". (Pravda la considera uno de los 10 reyes más peculiares o raritos).

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