Carola Miró i Bedós | |
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First Lady of the Government of Catalonia | |
In office 17 May 2018 – 29 September 2020 | |
Monarch | Felipe VI |
Personal details | |
Born | 1965 Barcelona, Spain |
Died | 4 May 2024 (aged 58) Salt, Spain |
Spouse | Quim Torra |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Teacher |
Carola Miró i Bedós (1965 – 4 May 2024) was a Spanish Catalan teacher and First Lady of Catalonia between 2018 and 2020, during the mandate of the 131st President of the Government of Catalonia, held by her husband Quim Torra. [1] [2]
Miró worked as a teacher at the Thau charter school in Barcelona, which belongs to the Cultural Institution of the Center of Catholic Influence (ICCIC). In 2007, she asked for a leave of absence to live with her family for a year in Switzerland, where her husband worked for the insurance company the Winterthur Group. [3] Miró and Torra had studied together at the St. Ignatius College and had three children. [4]
In the political field, Miró had been part of the association Reagrupament for the demarcation of Barcelona in the 2010 regional election, in 77th position. [5] Ideologically, like her husband, she was a practicing Catholic and a supporter of Catalan independence. [6]
In 2020, Miró was diagnosed with cancer, at which time her husband, then in office as Catalan president, temporarily suspended all of his public agenda. [7] The disease did not remit, and on 4 May 2024, she died at the Hospital Santa Caterina in Salt, having been hospitalised in a very serious condition for some time. She was 58. [8]
Carola Miró i Bedós | |
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![]() | |
First Lady of the Government of Catalonia | |
In office 17 May 2018 – 29 September 2020 | |
Monarch | Felipe VI |
Personal details | |
Born | 1965 Barcelona, Spain |
Died | 4 May 2024 (aged 58) Salt, Spain |
Spouse | Quim Torra |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Teacher |
Carola Miró i Bedós (1965 – 4 May 2024) was a Spanish Catalan teacher and First Lady of Catalonia between 2018 and 2020, during the mandate of the 131st President of the Government of Catalonia, held by her husband Quim Torra. [1] [2]
Miró worked as a teacher at the Thau charter school in Barcelona, which belongs to the Cultural Institution of the Center of Catholic Influence (ICCIC). In 2007, she asked for a leave of absence to live with her family for a year in Switzerland, where her husband worked for the insurance company the Winterthur Group. [3] Miró and Torra had studied together at the St. Ignatius College and had three children. [4]
In the political field, Miró had been part of the association Reagrupament for the demarcation of Barcelona in the 2010 regional election, in 77th position. [5] Ideologically, like her husband, she was a practicing Catholic and a supporter of Catalan independence. [6]
In 2020, Miró was diagnosed with cancer, at which time her husband, then in office as Catalan president, temporarily suspended all of his public agenda. [7] The disease did not remit, and on 4 May 2024, she died at the Hospital Santa Caterina in Salt, having been hospitalised in a very serious condition for some time. She was 58. [8]