Duke, I believe that you have an erroneous idea. You cannot compare Peñafiel with Mari Ángeles Alcazar.
Jaime Peñafiel does not go to any act of the Royal Family for enough years. He writes on rumors and gossips because he does not go to the acts and does not speak with the members of the Royal Family, he speaks because he wants to appear in the television and to earn money, but the veracity of his information is questionable enough. What Peñafiel was doing 20 years ago is not what he does now. He writes every Sunday a section of gossip in a newspaper, but he is not the journalist who follows the information about the Royal Family for this newspaper.
Mari Angeles Alcazar works for a newspaper La Vanguardia, and in the last years she takes part occasionally in a program of television. Her principal work is to follow the activities of the Royal Family for her newspaper, she goes to the acts and follows the official trips.
As her, there are other journalists in Spain. The principal newspapers, the services of news of the principal televisions, the public agency of news, they have a journalist who follows the information of the Royal Family, go to the acts, accompany them in the official trips. This group of journalists is the one that really is near the Royal Family, which follow their activities, travel with them and those who have the opportunity to speak with them and with the persons who work with them. These are the journalists who have access when there is a number restricted of mass media that can accede to an act and they are invited to the receptions.
