The story is set in Madrid, in the 18th century and one of the characters that appears in the episodes is the king, but which king are we talking about? Did he exist in real life?
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Like The Money Heist, La Cocinera de Castamar premiered on Antena 3, Spanish television, but it was not as successful. Upon reaching Netflix, the emotional story generated a lot of acceptance from the platform’s subscribers.
Who is the king of The Cook of Castamar?
The king who appears in the series is Philip V, and yes, he existed in real life: he was king of Spain from November 16, 1700 until his death in 1746. with a brief interruption (between January 16 and September 5, 1724) due to the abdication in favor of his son Luis I, who died prematurely on August 31, 1724.
They called him “the Courageous” and he was born in Versailles, France, on December 19, 1683. As the great-grandson of Philip IV, he was the successor of the last monarch of the House of Austria, his great-uncle Charles II, so He became the first king of the House of Bourbon in Spain. His reign of 45 years and 3 days (divided, as already noted, into two separate periods) is the longest in the history of the Spanish monarchy.
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Like The Money Heist, La Cocinera de Castamar premiered on Antena 3, Spanish television, but it was not as successful. Upon reaching Netflix, the emotional story generated a lot of acceptance from the platform’s subscribers.
Although Philip V had absolute power, he never ruled as such. The illness that he had suffered since adolescence and that caused the king to have temporary attacks of depression prevented him from being able to regularly carry out his government duties. Therefore, his true power was exercised by his prime ministers, some courtiers like the princess of the Ursinos, and later his second wife, Isabel Farnesio, whom he had married in 1714.
Farnese was a temperamental, authoritarian woman with excessive personal ambition. According to the chronicles of the time, she was not excessively beautiful, her face was marked with scars from smallpox and she ate a lot at all times. Furthermore, she took advantage of her husband’s long periods of depression to gain her own power. She kept her husband as far away from the throne as she could and always showed absolute disgust towards Philip V’s children with his first wife, María Luis Gabriela de Savoy. She and the King had several children, including Charles (future Charles III).
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During the last years of his reign, the mental illness and physical deterioration of Philip V became more pronounced. The king can be seen in famous works by French painters, such as Jean Ranc and Van Loo, the fatigue that he presents is observed, as a result of eating problems and psychological illnesses, until on the night of the July 9, 1746 he died of a stroke.
What role does Felipe V play in the series?
In “The Cook of Castamar”, the King offers Don Diego a job as Secretary of the Council. He distrusts everyone, he suffers from paranoia and melancholy. The actor who plays Felipe V is Joan Carreras, while Silvia Abascal plays Isabel de Farnesio, the second wife of Felipe V.
In a moment alone, the king Philip V He gives the cook a secret that she must keep. When the Queen appears with Diego, she does not recognize her and becomes upset with her, giving her a totally unrecognizable image: “I curse the Crown!” She claims that she is in a state of madness.
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Hours before, during the celebration in Castamar, the Queen realizes that the King has disappeared and her scream sparks concern among those present in the palace.
In the series, King Felipe V stars in episodes where he becomes upset and loses his mind. And yes, the real Felipe V was like that. All the chroniclers of the time speak of periods of acute depression, of “total inertia,” of “deep melancholy.” His illness reached such a level that he feared that they were going to poison him with a shirt full of poison and he insisted on wearing only shirts that had previously been worn by the Queen.
in his book The life and times of Fernando VI (Planeta, 1998), the historian Pedro Voltes affirms that Philip V “walked naked before strangers; He spent entire days in bed in the midst of the greatest filth, he made faces and bit himself, he sang and screamed wildly, he once hit the queen, with whom he was fighting loudly, and he repeated his attempts to escape so much that “It was necessary to put guards at the door to prevent it.”
Trailer for “The Cook of Castamar”
The Cook of Castamar Trailer
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