[Trending News] Rappel: “My children are very discreet, they have their organized life and my relationship with them is splendid”

Rafael Payá became rappel when he discovered that his perceptions were really clarive. One of them, the most tragic, was to “see” that one of his children would not exceed the year of life a few months before it happened. It was not the first time that there were premonitions And those qualities began to be taken seriously.

Actually, in those early years before becoming a public figure, his work was to continue with the family business. His father was a tailor and owner of a fabric store with exclusive fabrics that he bought in Paris and Milan. Rappel became designer and set up his sewing workshop in the same building in the Salamanca neighborhood. There passed from the Countess of Barcelona to the Infanta Pilar, passing by ladies of the so -called high society to whom all the seasons dressed. Once the test ended, the fixed phrase was: “Come, now check out the cards.”

The tarot and the needle shared a time. The haute couture was ate the prêt-à-porter and to the desktop. In his book 'The future is yesterday' (Editorial Roca) tells part of that life where there was a first marriage to the mother of her children, her experiences and knowledge of important people and the thanks to what is the “love of her life” with which he married almost in “Secret “Six years ago.

ASK. A memoir or memories book?

ANSWER. Rather, the second and I can say that those memories are very endearing for me. I have lived and shared with well -known characters and with less public people. I can say, making a balance, that I am proud to love me.

“I am very grateful, although I have had two great tragedies that were the death of my son and my little sister”

Q. I mean that when real life is told, there are lights and shadows.

A. That nobody wait in this book criticism or ugly comments. What I tell are my beautiful experiences, although there are also tragedies. There is thanks to the press that has always treated me wonderfully.

Q. Balance of your 79 years, what would you highlight?

A. I am very grateful. I have had two great tragedies that were the death of my son and my little sister. A few moments that I still remember sadly, but at the same time with that thanks to all the people who helped me and wrapped in those sad circumstances.

Q. Is being a seer a task for yourself?

A. A little yes, in the sense of feeling heart, fleeting bursts and intuitions that are then fulfilled. For example, the robbery I suffered in Marbella.

Q. Did you know your son's death in advance?

A. Yes. My son was born healthy from a normal birth. We were in the La Familia hospital room and all looking at the baby, which was beautiful. My mother -in -law told me how beautiful the child was. I saw that we were going to cry a lot. And indeed, when he turned eleven months he died.

Q. And how is that tragedy processed that you had intuited?

A. From there I took the issue of divination seriously. Until that moment it was more a game, a hobby and threw the cards and read coffee and hand lines in friends meetings. Nothing professional. It was then that I started studying and I had a great teacher who was José María Martínez Pardo.

“My son was born healthy from a normal delivery. We were in the La Familia hospital room and all looking at the baby, which was beautiful. Then I saw that we were going to cry a lot”

Q. Did this misfortune influence your marriage?

A. No, because we both assumed it with a lot of pain, but we threw forward because we already had a child. Then two more arrived. It was a tragedy. It was very difficult to assume that a baby who has been born well.

Q. You have three children who have preferred not to have public visibility.

A. They are very discreet. They have their organized life and my relationship with them is splendid. We love each other a lot and our family environment is great.

Q. How did you accept divorce?

A. I went a lot at night because I was carrying the public relations of Florida Park, I went to all the artists' parties because it was my job. He arrived home at four or five in the morning and those schedules were difficult to wear in the marriage.

Q. And you relationship with José María, how did they see it?

A. Well also well. They met and show each other. We are a family that we love, that we respect each other and the important thing is that we all be happy. We got married six years ago and said nothing. I am very proud to have a wonderful man by my side.

Q. Those who have known you for a long time have always seen you with José María. You never had to hide.

We have been together for thirty -eight years. He started as secretary to take all my agenda and soon they invited me to a trip to Egypt and came with me. And from that date a more intimate relationship arose. José María had his girlfriends and had never been with any man. His family was very traditional and it seemed strange. At first we carry it with discretion. My mother who was a very conservative person and said: “Look, if I love my son I love you.”

“José María had his girlfriends and had never been with any man. His family was very traditional and it seemed strange to them. At first we took him with discretion.”

Q. Who declared who?

A. I was more launched. He is a more reserved person.

Q. Your father was tailor and you inherited the business. You could have been one of the great sewing. Why did you leave it?

A. I was working with Balenciaga and learned the trade. When he closed his sewing house in Madrid in 1971 I had the fabric store on Ayala street. In 1969 the ground floor of the building was free and there I organized my workshop. It worked until the haute couture crisis came with Prêt-à-porter fashion. Some ladies commissioned me three costumes and wanted to pay one. Everything came together and I left it.

Q. Was being a seer and designer was incompatible?

A. More than incompatible, a little madness. I was as a designer, with the fabric store, my work in Florida Park and on top I threw the cards in my office.

P. Your store and workshop on Ayala Street became a meeting place with the Countess of Barcelona, ​​to which you did the majority of her closet, including the gowns of being home. What memories do you have of her?

A. He was a wonderful, fun and good person who suffered a lot. I remember that I designed a jacket for a very important day that was when the Count of Barcelona gave his dynastic rights to Don Juan Carlos. Doña María worshiped the king.

Q. Your workshop also served as an excuse of infidelities. The phrase “I'm going to see Rappel that a suit is doing to me”, served for everything.

A. Of course I was in secret, but it was something that happened in many families.

Q. For those who do not believe much in the future, they do recognize you that you give tranquility.

A. I try to be very positive. The moment I have the cards in front, I see how good that person comes.

“The Countess of Barcelona was a wonderful person who suffered a lot. I designed the suit he took when the Count of Barcelona gave his dynastic rights to Don Juan Carlos”

Q. There were several summers in which Chabeli was chasing you and you were in a beach at the beach of the Don Pepe Hotel in Marbella. Does the relationship still maintain?

A. We haven't seen each other for a long time. We are still being treated and she is a woman who wishes her the best in the world. His mother Isabel I have never thrown her letters or read her hand. Julio Iglesias yes. I have a very pretty photo where I am reading the stripes of the hand.

Q. Few people know that for a while you had an employee to the butler of the Marquises of Urquijo. Will you ever know what happened?

R. Vicente told me things about the intimacy of family life that belong to that intimacy. Someday it will be known. With me he was a responsible person. He cooked madness.

“Vicente [el mayordomo de los Urquijo] He told me things about the intimacy of family life that belong to that intimacy. Someday it will be known “

Q. Queen Sofia is interested in everything that has to do with parapsychology, paranormal phenomena and esotericism. Have you ever coincided?

A. To read your hands. To the king.

Q. What future do you see Don Juan Carlos?

A. What I see is that in the near future he will live in Spain.

Q. And to the monarchy? The figures of King Felipe and the Princess of Asturias are now a rising value?

A. There is monarchy for a while. In Spain there are no important changes in that regard. The princess of Asturias is a very responsible young woman, who falls very well and of course she is very well advised by her mother. Doña Letizia is doing a balance role.

Q. And finally, what can we expect from the world with Trump?

A. It is a watchmaking bomb, a surprise, unpredictable.