Popular Queen Letizia triumphs in the streets of Spain
Substitute: The 'regency' in full form of Queen Letizia for the quarantine of the King
Example: Queen Letizia, as the protagonist with Felipe VI to the secondary path of the heir
It is taken for granted that King Juan Carlos foreshadowed that if his son, the then Prince of Asturias, married Letizia Ortiz, the wedding would be the beginning of the end of the Monarchy in Spain.
The heat is consistent with the initial opposition of Don Felipe's parents to the
liaison with a journalist, commoner and divorced
.
Doña Letizia has been the Queen consort since 2014. And not only has she not ended the institution, but she has been
its great prop
in the complicated 2020 that has just ended.
of the coronavirus has been that of the umpteenth reinvention of Doña Letizia, forced by the unfavorable circumstances that shake the House of the King.
AND
He has overcome the challenge with flying colors.
Without so much pressure to which Felipe VI is subjected, the Consort has been pushed to a greater role to enhance the usefulness and exemplary nature of the Crown.The same professionalism that in his day the current King Father praised of Doña Sofía is now the rising value of Queen Letizia.
It seems that it has been necessary for the health and economic crises of the pandemic and that suffered by the Head of State itself to converge so that
the Consort will bring out the best of herself
and the majority of citizens, as reflected in the surveys, value the preparation, dedication and discipline with which they exercise their position.
cooperation trip to Honduras
mid-December was the unbeatable culmination of the Year of the Queen.
With almost all state or diplomatic trips canceled in the world, and the agendas of members of European royalty reduced to a minimum,
major international media
they echoed the displacement of Doña Letizia, when it seemed that the leap was going to end without one of the cooperation trips that she stars every year, following the wake started in her day by Doña Sofía.
delivered tons of humanitarian aid
to Honduras after the devastation suffered by hurricanes Eta and Iota;
he traveled to some of the worst affected areas and met with local authorities.
There have hardly been any such missions at the highest level since the WHO decreed the pandemic.
Therefore, in an unusual statement, even the European Commissioner for Crisis Management,
Janez Lenarcic, wanted to thank Doña Letizia for her efforts.
Its renewed prominence began in March, a few days after the shocking decree of the state of alarm by the Government.
The perfect storm was brewing in Zarzuela.
Philip VI
I had to meet with
a devastating statement
in which he marked all the distances with his father after being made public
the existence of millionaire accounts
opaque abroad After the initial impact, and making a virtue of necessity, the Kings' agenda intensified during the toughest weeks of the pandemic.
And Doña Letizia
stood out as the most active royal consort
of all Europe in the face of the very serious crisis, a partner in almost all the acts in which the King intervened, but also with
a large individual agenda,
which included innumerable virtual audiences, as well as institutional visits when it was possible to leave the Palace. Nothing has been left to chance.
And great care has been taken in aspects such as clothing.
On Wednesday, Three Kings Day,
costumes
with whom Doña Letizia attended the solemn Military Easter ceremony was much commented on because her white Maksu blouse was
the first garment that premiered
for half a year.
Nobody is aware that Doña Letizia has tried in such a hard year to show the austerity and exemplary nature that is required of
a queen who empathizes with her people.
Zarzuela decreed
in summer,
along the same lines, that the Royal Family suspended their vacations.
And, thus, after the tour of the Monarchs throughout the Spanish geography to support the sectors involved in the fight against the pandemic and support a sector as fundamental as tourism, Don Felipe, Doña Letizia and their daughters
they moved to Mallorca
to participate in more events of an institutional nature, and immediately returned to Madrid.
It was necessary to avoid any controversy such as the one that affected the kings of Holland, who were highly criticized for spending the summer at their summer residence in Greece. Those who know Doña Letizia closely stand out from her
his almost obsessive perfectionism.
Maximum self-demand takes away her naturalness, closeness or spontaneity and makes her seem distant.
His character continues to be the aspect that Spaniards value the worst, which is why for years he has been the least popular member of the Royal Family, according to polls.
This Christmas, the actress Verónica Forqué alluded to it in a controversial interview when she ironized that
Doña Letizia does not seem very nice.
However, perhaps because some Spaniards are disappointed with Don Juan Carlos' lauded heartiness,
the seriousness and rigor with which Doña Letizia
faces its functions.
He more than demonstrated this in the acts in which he had to replace the King while he was under an obligatory quarantine.
That quasi-regency once again showed how little Zarzuela has exploited Doña Letizia's potential so far.
Although, at the same time, the lack of a statute covering the functions of the Consort was raised, as the professor of Constitutional Law Antonio Torres del Moral points out to LOC. The latest survey by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO reflects almost
six out of 10 Spaniards support the parliamentary monarchy
.
The same survey concludes that 55.2% value very well or the public presence of the Queen;
only 27% think it is bad or very bad.
It is a clear endorsement of their performance. Time will tell if the Casa del Rey chooses to continue reinforcing the role of Doña Letizia or not.
The reputational crisis caused by his father-in-law and the advances in transparency that are demanded of Zarzuela today
yes they will have direct consequences for her.
It is known, for example, that since his marriage he tried to establish a strict separation between the public and private spheres that communes badly with any royal family.
But today it would be almost suicidal for the institution to pretend
keep your private trips completely opaque
or enjoy vacation periods as long as those that so many criticisms have brought to Doña Letizia in the recent past.For now, this strange Christmas has been missing again the Kings and their daughters in
some family appearance
.
Although, at least, on December 21 Zarzuela reported the displacement of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia to Barcelona to deliver the Cervantes Prize to Joan Margarit, a way of showing them assets until the recording of the Christmas Eve Message from the Head of State.
Later, in full parties,
Don Felipe was caught buying gifts in a Madrid shopping center,
with which uncomfortable speculations were cleared.
Finally, on January 6, after Military Easter, the couple and the daughters maintained their tradition of spending the afternoon at the home of the Queen's father, Jesús Ortiz, where they have a snack of the roscón de reyes.
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