This Marcha Real version Lyrics were adapted from an earlier version on 1928 written by José María Pemán (1897-1981) during the reign of Alfonso XIII and the government of Miguel Primo de Rivera. The changes intended to fit the symbols of the extreme right-wing ideology of General Francisco Franco, referred to as National-Catholicism, which were the "salute with the extended right arm" and the "yoke and arrows". The yoke and arrows were, firstly, a symbol used in the Middle Ages by Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon to represent the union of their dynasties and their kingdoms, and secondly, the symbol of Falangism in Spain.
Even if nowadays those lyrics are mostly linked to the Franco era, they weren't really made official,
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