Julio Iglesias, Sr.
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Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga (Ourense, July 26, 1915 — Madrid, December 19, 2005) was a Spanish gynaecologist. He was the Galician-born father of singer Julio Iglesias and grandfather to singer Enrique Iglesias. He became one of the youngest gynecologists of Spain. He was nicknamed Papuchi, "Daddy".
Dr Iglesias was one of the youngest gynaecologists to work in the Spanish public health system. He helped to found the Madrid Maternity Clinic and became the head of its sterility, infertility and family planning unit.
During the 1980s he was kidnapped by Basque ETA and held for two weeks, eventually being found unharmed. He became a fixture of gossip magazines, always ready to chat with journalists revealing information about his famous descendants.
[edit] Family
In 1943 he married Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat and the couple had two sons Julio Iglesias and Carlos. They divorced in 1983.
In the early 1990s, he met US citizen Ronna Keitt. The two married in 2001 in a secret ceremony witnessed by close family and photographers from a magazine.
On May 18th, 2004, Ronna gave birth to a boy, Jaime Iglesias. Dr Iglesias was 89 and Ronna 40. The baby's brother, Julio Iglesias was 61-years-old. After little Jaime made his debut in 2004, Dr Iglesias rejected suggestions Ronna was the driving force behind their decision to start a family. "At my age, a child is marvellous.. I felt just like Abraham" he declared. "If people say I just did it for my wife, I don't take it as an insult, but the truth is I wanted to do it just as much as she did. "My wife wanted to do it and we did it," It was an act of generosity towards her. I leave her part of my blood, of my life. I need her so much that I said to her 'here, this is what you wanted for when I am gone' ".
Barely after announcing the arrival of her first baby, Ronna underwent fertility treatment in order to conceive again. IV treatment is speculated to have been used for their second child. Dr Iglesias Puga died suddenly the morning of December 19th, 2005, at the age of 90. Ruth was born July 26, 2006, seven months after her father died.
