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Columbus and the Catalan Royal House attempts to dismantle the fallacy of a plebeian, illiterate and foreign Columbus holding the high political and military positions that only members of the royal house and certain nobles held. Is it possible that an illiterate foreigner could reach the highest peaks of the state structure? Is it possible that he achieved this by deceiving King Ferdinand and the entire chancellery, without anyone denouncing him? Or perhaps what really happened is that the deputy, soldier, admiral and ambassador Columbus became related to a woman of the royalty of Portugal and Catalonia - a descendant of Count Jaume d'Urgell - and for this reason he was able to access the positions he accessed and live in the courts where he lived, with the absolute most normality and without any institutional denunciation. The documentary, based on the studies of Jordi Bilbeny, seeks to explain the facts and give meaning to the royal mentality of the Discoverer and the dynasty that the Columbuses created on the other side of the Atlantic.