Carola Miró i Bedós

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.

Biography
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. Miró and Torra had studied together at the St. Ignatius College and had three children.

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. Ideologically, like her husband, she was a practicing Catholic and a supporter of Catalan independence.

Illness and death
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. 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.