[3] A hard-line supporter of the Roman Catholic Church, he nonetheless was prepared to criticise the Papacy for not reaching his own standards, notably in a series of articles published in the Acción Española journal in 1931 and 1932 in which he attacked the supposedly conciliatory attitude towards the republicans in France.
Alongside this, however, he had a fraught relationship with José Antonio Primo de Rivera, as he did not approve of the Falangist leader's high-living private life.
They were estranged not long before Primo de Rivera's death, when Vegas Latapie attacked his "social frivolity" while Falangists were being killed.
[9] Deprived of his office, he entered into a series of conspiracies against Franco with Juan Antonio Ansaldo, but since neither man was particularly popular or had good contacts, they came to nothing.
[11] In 1946 he formed part of a coterie of advisors around Don Juan, which included the likes of Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Julio López-Oliván and General Antonio Aranda, all of whom were involved in trying to secure restoration for the prospective king.