Del Boy never marries. He has had many girlfriends, a fact that is the subject of numerous sarcastic comments by Rodney. He finally meets his partner Raquel Turner (whom he calls his "significant other") in the 1988 special "Dates". Del's mother Joan dies on 12 March 1964, apparently after a long string of illnesses. His lazy father Reginald leaves three months later (on Del's 16th birthday), taking most of their money and even Del's birthday cake. This leaves the teenage Del as the family's sole breadwinner, looking after his grandfather and Rodney, his half-brother who was born around thirteen years after him
Raquel Martínez Rabanal Raquel Martínez Rabanal Raquel Martínez Rabanal (born 1979) is a journalist and a television and radio hostess from Palencia, Spain. Martinez began working for RNE in Valladolid, where she hosted the show "La memoria del vino" in 2004. In 2006, she began hosting the news for Canal 24 Horas. Martínez was born in 1979 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. She graduated from the University of Sevilla with the title of Licentiate in Audiovisual Communication, which she later mastered in the National Radio of Spain. In 2004 she hosted "La memoria del vino", along with Oscar Sacristán, on RNE in