The wise saying says that "make fame and go to sleep."
In the case of the Queen, she is well aware of the great difficulty involved in detaching herself from some of the
sanbenitos that adorn her
in the popular imagination: cold, distant, bossy, controlling ...
The truth is that it took Doña Letizia a lot of effort to
metamorphose
into Princess of Asturias and
fit into her new institutional role
as Don Felipe's consort. They were difficult years in which she had to leave behind her life as a journalist and as one more citizen to become
the most observed woman in the country,
who is not forgiven a single slip. Such a drastic change naturally caused changes in his character, in his personality. Little by little, he was gaining in professionalism, in knowing how to be, in trade ... but due to an
excessive desire for perfectionism, he
also lost a lot of spontaneity, human warmth, closeness.
Today, as confirmed by the surveys that the different media carry out periodically on the Royal Family,
the Spanish value very positively
the great performance with which the Queen fulfills her functions and, however,
greater doses of empathy, more naturalness
in his public appearances. Long gone are the times when it was considered vulgar and inappropriate for royals to show feelings of any kind to the people. Now, on the contrary, that ability to
display sincere emotions
is a rising value that in the case of Monarchies is highly valued.
For all that has been said, days ago
the effusive demonstration of affection
that Doña Letizia dedicated to the King during the ceremony in Seville in which Don Felipe received the Medal of Honor of Andalusia, from the hands of President
Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla
, in recognition of the affective ties that unite the Crown with this community. The Queen did not hesitate to approach her husband to
hug him
while the audience applauded. The Monarch seconded the tender gesture
by grabbing his wife by the waist,
who, very close to him, touched and observed every detail of the insignia that has just been imposed on her.
It was
a spontaneous manifestation of tenderness
that, in the case of the Kings, whom we generally only see in official acts, often too corseted and with excessively rigid protocol, humanizes them. It is these details that allow us to see a
much warmer and more affectionate Doña Letizia,
as some of her relatives say that it is actually in the private sphere and in short distances, although without going overboard.
But, in reality, the gesture in Seville was nothing new.
The Queen quite often demonstrates
the chemistry that exists between her and Don Felipe
and does not hesitate to show affection in public.
The day of the proclamation of the King before the Cortes, on June 19, 2014, was a historic day of great solemnity in which Doña Letizia
did not repress her emotion or her love
for her husband.
And throughout the morning full of acts and moments for posterity, the royal couple was lavish in
caresses, conspiratorial glances and carantos
, touching of support and pride.
the chaste kiss
Nothing to do with that spontaneity and naturalness with the
restraint and excess of shyness
that had starred, for example, on their wedding day, May 22, 2004.
The chaste kiss
that the then Princes of Asturias gave each other on the balcony of the Palace Real did not satisfy anyone. But then Doña Letizia felt deeply insecure in her newly released role. The public pressure before each of his gestures was devilish. And for the former journalist it was
almost traumatic to receive a torrent of criticism
for a spontaneous gesture as inconsequential as cutting Don Felipe in front of journalists on the day of the official announcement of the wedding, asking him to let her speak.
As Queen, Doña Letizia
has gained in security
and, with it, in ease before the public.
Hence, she no longer has to be so restrained and can be affectionate with the King.
Thus, just one year after the aforementioned swearing by the Monarch, on the summer holidays in Palma in August 2015 the consort went on one of the days of regattas to look for her husband at the Nautical and they did not cut themselves half to
give themselves a good time. kiss,
like the one that any couple in love would exchange, as soon as they see each other.
Los Monarcas, in Doñana, in February 2020.
There have been a few romantic images that the marriage has given us since then. Like the moment they starred
in February 2020,
shortly before the coronavirus pandemic and the scandal of the opaque accounts of Don Juan Carlos darkened everything: Don Felipe and Doña Letizia walked
like two lovebirds
dedicating all kinds of carantoñas during a walk by the
Doñana
National
Park
, after closing the Scientific Congress to close the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of this Unesco Biosphere Reserve.
Or months later, in July 2020, during the tour that the Kings made through all the autonomous communities after the end of the first state of alarm by the Covid, Doña Letizia was very affectionate in her beloved Asturias and showed herself
to be more flattering with Don Felipe
on his visit to the facilities of the Cogersa Waste Treatment Center.
In addition to complicity, in many public events the Monarchs show
their mutual admiration.
How can we not remember, for example, the impetus - even embarrassing for him, because it was excessive - with which Doña Letizia
applauded the King after his speech
in the Congress of Deputies in December 2018, during a solemn session of the Chambers on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Constitution.
Crisis overcome
Don Felipe and Doña Letizia
have been
married for 17 years, in which
there have been ups and downs and some serious crises.
The consort has not hidden her anger with her husband at a time when they had the media focus pointing to them. This happened, for example, in June 2015, during the Impulsa Forum of the Princess of Girona Foundation, in which they were cold and very distant. But the annus horribilis for the couple was 2013. That summer, she arrived in
Palma
de Mallorca much later than the rest of the Royal Family and left immediately, ahead of schedule, leaving her husband, her daughters and her in-laws standing there.
The sentimental crisis could no longer be hidden.
However, once the pieces were recomposed, from the surroundings closest to the Palace it was confirmed that the two had returned to
a kind of second honeymoon.
Doña Letizia is not as spontaneous, as affectionate, as warm in public as other royal consorts such as Máxima de Holanda.
But she is not that cold and distant queen that some keep in their heads because, as we said at the beginning, she created fame and it does not matter what gestures she makes.
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