Letizia and the Press

[Duke of Marmalade]

Rough translation about an incident in February - if true or not I don't know, I wasn't there.

Letizia usually goes with her children to an exclusive club to play / spend time with friends and on that day there was another child's birthday party. Because there were clowns and magicians and many other children Leonor somehow got mixed with them and enjoyed herself. Everything was fine until at the end Letizia or her bodyguard demanded pics and videos taken during the party because of Leonor's appearance on the footage, although she had not been invited. The parents refused to give the footage because they wanted it for their own memories and Letizia left in anger.

Vanitatis.com - Letizia 'confisca' imágenes de sus hijas en una fiesta infantil

If Letizia doesn't relax and gets rid of her overprotective streak I wonder how she will pull through the times when Leonor goes to school and and will mix with friends from outside Zarzuela.

[infanteleonor]

i think that it is the security of the zarzuela that as ask for the foto
the bodyguard can't ask for her name ...
i think that is not think o right de letizia
is the security of zarzuela

[giov]

Provided that Vanitatis says the truth, IMO, in order to avoid these unpleasant incidents, either they shouldn't have gone to the club that day or they shouldn't have let Leonor join the other children.
Asking for all the pics and the videos at the end of the private party is really crazy and rude. I cannot believe that the security of Zarzuela doesn't know how to prevent this sort of incidents and I hope that is not true that Letizia sent the bodyguards to ask for the pics.

[infanteleonor]

Originally Posted by giov

Provided Vanitatis says the truth, IMO, in order to avoid these unpleasant incidents, either they shouldn't have gone to the club that day or they shouldn't have let Leonor join the other children.
Asking for all the pics and the videos at the end of the party is really crazy and rude. I cannot believe that the security of Zarzuela doesn't know how to prevent this sort of incidents and I hope that is not true Letizia send the bodyguards to ask for the pics.

mi too if the bodycard ask for the pic is just the pic who was leonor ...

[lula]

This web is not trustworthy, and less this journalists. Paloma Barrientos is together with Peñafiel, which harder have beaten the princess. Her histories always are manipulated, exaggerated and distorted. At least this time has not returned to commit the mistake of saying that Leonor has 3 years (up to in something so simple she commits mistakes).

She declares herself republican, always she praises those that are rich or powerful, but she cannot support that a normal woman, a journalist as her, is today Princess of Asturias. If the Princes make something normal of any family she criticizes them, if the princes do something that is supposed is own of her social position ... also. Before the wedding the Princess did a commentary on the assaults of this journalist to Erika, and since then she has attacked her mercilessly. It seems that also she had problems with Jaime de Marichalar.

The press is despair, because as the Princess has had very few activity they do not have material, and the Princess is a fixed material in magazines or programs of television. Always the same thing happens, when they pass a few days without news harass to her family and terrible histories are invented on her.

I remember that when this Christmas appeared the photos of the Infanta Leonor in the parade of Three Wish Men, the magazine was commenting that the Princes did not put any problem to which the people were photographing them with their daughter.

But it is a topic on the one that must think over the Royal House. Nowadays we all are paparazzi, with our telephones and cameras of photos, and the normal people know can sell these photos for thousands of Euros.

[biboquinhas]

I cannot understand this "hiden the children" by Letizia, it is so absurd IMO!

[grevinnan]

I would not believe that neither Letizia nor the security would know where Leonor was and that she was being photographed. No mother of a child would be so ignorant about the whereabouts of a small child, especially a child that has security watching her. Sounds like a made-up story.

[madeleine victoria]

Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade

Rough translation about an incident in February - if true or not I don't know, I wasn't there.

Letizia usually goes with her children to an exclusive club to play / spend time with friends and on that day there was another child's birthday party. Because there were clowns and magicians and many other children Leonor somehow got mixed with them and enjoyed herself. Everything was fine until at the end Letizia or her bodyguard demanded pics and videos taken during the party because of Leonor's appearance on the footage, although she had not been invited. The parents refused to give the footage because they wanted it for their own memories and Letizia left in anger.

Vanitatis.com - Letizia 'confisca' imágenes de sus hijas en una fiesta infantil

If Letizia doesn't relax and gets rid of her overprotective streak I wonder how she will pull through the times when Leonor goes to school and and will mix with friends from outside Zarzuela.

Well, I don't think Letizia will do that. She knows that her daughter will be photographed anywhere so acting like what was stated in the article is really something. I don't think she will insist on confiscating the pictures after all Leonor has been photographed so many times without her. If she really does not want these pictures out she could have contacted all the people around Leonor during the circus with her mother or any other pictures of her daughter. She knows that by being rude will only weaken the monarchy so I really don't think she did that.

[donnaK]

Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade

Vanitatis.com - Letizia 'confisca' imágenes de sus hijas en una fiesta infantil

If Letizia doesn't relax and gets rid of her overprotective streak I wonder how she will pull through the times when Leonor goes to school and and will mix with friends from outside Zarzuela.

An article without an author ? If someone had such a connection, was sure about the story, why didn't he/she put down the name ? He/she would have the chance to be famous . From the previous experience, those type of articles should be taken with a grand of salt.

[carlota]

wow, that article is harsh. it is written with quite a lot of subjection in my opinion as well, which isn't good when you are trying to report something and making it sound real. i don't know whether it's true or not, but i somehow have the impression no one (princess, celebrity... whatever) in their sanity would do it. it's really pedantic.

[highpriestess]

Originally Posted by lula

This web is not trustworthy, and less this journalists. Paloma Barrientos is together with Peñafiel, which harder have beaten the princess. Her histories always are manipulated, exaggerated and distorted. At least this time has not returned to commit the mistake of saying that Leonor has 3 years (up to in something so simple she commits mistakes).

Is this the same woman who reported that Letizia was annoying other people on a plane because she's going up and down the aisle with Leonor many times to the labotory?

[Nad25]

From what I'm reading i found it quite hard to believe, that the Princess would act in such manner and be rude to people in that way!!

[donnaK]

Originally Posted by highpriestess

Is this the same woman who reported that Letizia was annoying other people on a plane because she's going up and down the aisle with Leonor many times to the labotory?

Yes, it's her. Jaime de Marichalar almost got into a fight with her after she spreaded mand rumors on him.
She had another similar airplane article on the trip of Felipe, Letizia and Leonor from Madrid to Milan. That time was Felipe walking Leonor up and down the aisle. Of course she dare not say that such a tall man walking up and down were annoying other people. But it must be Letizia's fault , her Prince should be sitting on his first class seat, drinking coffee and reading newspapers, instead she 'forced' him to walk the kid . On the other hand, she praised Inaki for taking 4 kids to Canary Islands while his royal wife was still in Barcelona working. Royals and commoners have different job descriptions even in their family lives .
But this time, the article was not written by Paloma Barrientos since she usually put down her name. Maybe they picked up the article from the junk mails. It's lacking news right now due to election. Some bored people might write their own stories, mail them the tabloids. If a certain tabloid saw it fitting its agenda, it would publish the article, that also explains why no author. It had happened before several times (sources of some of Jaime P's articles), another ex, there was a story of Felipe and Letizia taking the Ortiz family to Paris after the death of Letizia's grandpa.

[planetcher]

I figured to bring it here from the old thread.

An article without an author's name? Not brave enough to write his/her name? Anyway, here's another version from ABC and Zarzuela. I'm busy to translate maybe someone will.

ABC.es: gente - gente - Otra historia de la Princesa Letizia

[carlota]

Originally Posted by planetcher

I figured to bring it here from the old thread.

An article without an author's name? Not brave enough to write his/her name? Anyway, here's another version from ABC and Zarzuela. I'm busy to translate maybe someone will.

ABC.es: gente - gente - Otra historia de la Princesa Letizia

that's not another version and it in fact explain's zarzuela's reaction to the incident. according to them, that didn't happen and neither letizia or the bodyguards asked for the photos. it does mention that once, leonor was playing at the club and a lady approached her to take pictures, which the bodyguards inmediately stopped according to the "law of the minor" (minors are only to be photographed with the consent of their parents). apparently, the women then told someone having a party there about the incident and it got a bit out of proportion.

to be honest, i have no idea which version is the right one, both seem a bit strange (so zarzuela now confirms that the lady went to the other people and spreaded a rumour? how would they know/dare to say that?)

[lula]

Originally Posted by carlota

to be honest, i have no idea which version is the right one, both seem a bit strange (so zarzuela now confirms that the lady went to the other people and spreaded a rumour? how would they know/dare to say that?)

It is easy to understand it, is a private club, not the street, so the bodyguards found out easily about everything.

Seeing often the behavior of the people, it is easy to deal. There are people who believes herself with right to do what wants, in this case to photograph the girls without permission in a private place. And as the girls they are Infantas, and Leonor is pretty and funny, the people assimilate them as a possession public, as an exposed object in order that the whole world looks at them. And when someone comes and prevents them from doing something, they get angry. There are many persons like that. Probably, the lady in question would do certain commotion, and this journalist would find out and she took charge adorning the whole history.

And another commentary. This place is an exclusive enough place of Madrid. It is closely together of the Zarzuela Palace , and probably it is one of few places where the Princess can go calm with her daughters. The problem is that surely, some of the people who are present at this club it is thinking about being over the plebeian Letizia Ortiz. I am sure of that the Infanta Elena, does exactly the same thing with her children ... but it would not be a news.

[lula]

Finally, the persons demonstrate what they are. How yesterday the news publicized her, today the same journalist returns to insist, and once again she demonstrates her evilness and her ignorance. A shame is those who could not read Spanish, because they would see like only she reveals evilness in her words.

Vanitatis.com - El arroz de la Princesa Letizia

This time, she criticizes that the Princess organizes lunch with relatives in her house. In this case the birthday of her grandfather. Also she criticizes that according to her, some members of her family establish themselves in the House of the princes when they are in Madrid.

Later she speaks about the agenda of the Princess, says that she never has acts weekends, and that in the last weeks only she has had hearings while the Queen and the Infanta they were travelling.

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And now the list of explanations and alterations.

- They did not celebrate the birthday of the grandfather which is in July, but that of the grandmother.

- Thelma does not live in the Zarzuela, but when she has been in Madrid (that have been a few days for the birthday of her grandmother because she has been in Asturias and Toledo), she has visited her sister in the evenings, since does often Paloma with Carla. And it has been said by the photographers who follow her.

- Normally no member of the Royal Family they have activities the weekends, because anybody organizes acts the weekends that it is when all the civil servants rest. So the Princess is not different from the rest of the Family.

- The Queen did a trip to Cambodia, but later she has been two weeks without acts. The Infanta Cristina does not have a public act from January 29. Her trip, it was a trip as part of her work in The Caixa, works for the one that receives a salary, and that does not have any relation with her official activity. Like the Princess, the King and the Prince only have had hearings. Reason ... we are in electoral campaign, there is no official activity, and the Royal Family must avoid appear in public acts with politicians (always in their acts someone accompanies them), to support their image of neutrality. In addition, the country is in the highest level of security (4 years ago 11M, yesterday a murder).