The Spanish shipowner Fernando Fernández Tapias died on October 25 at the age of 84 due to a heart attack. An unexpected death for those closest to him, especially for his family, who attended desolately at the businessman's last farewell.
The shipowner's children went to the funeral home to say goodbye to their father, as his widow did, but despite the image of unity that they wanted to convey, the reality is very different. There is an internal family war between the Fernández Tapias that seems about to explode. At least, if it echoes the latest statements of Iria Fernández Tapias, the businessman's eldest granddaughter, who has raised her voice and made public the disagreements that exist in the family.
Iria Fernández Tapias has been one of the first to speak publicly about the disagreements that exist in the family of the deceased businessman. She was the daughter of Fernando, the first-born son of the Spanish shipowner and his wife, Mercedes Cañizares, and was her grandfather's favorite. The young woman, 25 years old, currently works in the organization of the Starlite festival, and she is very affected by the death of her "alalo", whom she had not seen for six years due to an apparent impediment by third parties.
As she stated in La Otra Crónica in 2022, the young woman regretted not knowing anything about her state of health. "They won't let me! We don't know anything about his state of health, it can't be! They can't deny us that right to enjoy him. All his grandchildren adore him. And he adores us," she explained, immersed in sadness. and fearing then that I would not have another opportunity to see him.
The last time she met the shipping company was in 2017. Very affected, she commented to the aforementioned newspaper that "now the truth about everything will be known."
The eldest children of Fernández Tapias went to the funeral home, due to the explicit "prohibition" of going to the shipowner's house, as confirmed to the newspaper ABC. They were the ones who tried to incapacitate the businessman in 2021, and with whom they broke off the relationship after losing the trial. "We want to preserve our privacy and not be labeled as wayward children," they said then, convinced that they had done what they had to do.
The businessman's children also dedicated a few words to Nuria González, the shipowner's widow, whom they claimed to have "respected." "We have never had a bad deed or a bad gesture," they say in the aforementioned newspaper, assuring that the shipowner was "a great father."
