At 70 Julio Iglesias is many things: the most successful Latin artist of all time with 300 million records sold; a legendary ladies’ man in the past; and today a happily married father of eight. Enrique and Julio Jr, two of his three children from his first marriage, have followed in his footsteps and 15-year-old Rodrigo, the second of his five children by wife number two, Miranda Rijnsburger, looks like doing the same.
This week marks the release of Julio’s latest album, 1 The Collection, and this month sees the Madrid-born star, who has homes in Miami, Spain and the Dominican Republic, singing at two gigs at London’s Royal Albert Hall. “I haven’t performed in England for something like 12 years,” says Julio, as he talks to us about his…