Doña Sofía: an unfair criticism that hurts the Queen Emeritus. "It is such a terrible loneliness of the soul not to understand a language, to be alone in a country without understanding its language." This statement of regret is attributed to Queen Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, wife of Alfonso XIII.
Eduardo Alvarez: What today's Emerita never cultivated was oratory, expressiveness, and naturalness when speaking in public. The wife of Juan Carlos I, despite the institutional role that she has assumed throughout her life, has always had quite a bit of stage fright.