tenngirl said:
Just to throw my 2 cents in:
Remember when Charles and Diana were first married and there were rumors that she was anorexic and very unhappy, etc. etc. and everyone said PHOOEY! There is no way, they are soooo happy!
I would not ever compare Diana to Letizia. Diana was, for the record, not anorexic, but
bulemic -- the polar opposite of being anorexic. Diana's unhappiness had also stemmed from her childhood in which her mother abandoned her young family and Diana never received the emotional and psychological support she needed while growing up.
A husband who was having an affair and was in love with another woman throughout their marriage did not help Diana's emotional and psychological welfare any further.
Diana suffered from low self-esteem all her life. She married very young and had accomplished very little in her life before her marriage to Charles. She also married into a family that was not particularly close knit at the time and who could rather be cold and distant.
By comparison, Letizia does not have any such experiences. She married a good 10 years after Diana married Charles, and as such, was able to have her own life experiences. She had a successful career as a respected journalist in Spain before becoming the Princess of Asturias. She travelled to Iraq and covered major tragedies in Spain. She has never once demonstrated that she lacked self-confidence or suffered from low self-esteem. Even on the day of her engagement announcement she received criticism for being
too or overly confident by interrupting Felipe when he ineterrupted her to say "Let me finish." And although her parents are divorced like Diana's, Letizia still has a close and supportive relationship with both of them, as well as her sisters and her grandparents.
... So I don't understand the comparison between Diana and Letizia who could not be more different than night and day, who lived a royal life in very different decades with times and monarchies that have different expectations of their princesses. The only connection between them is that they are both princesses.
tenngirl said:
Since time has proved that the gossip magazines were correct, I have been leery about just blowing them off. Obviously, some things that they say are very far out.
So how do we determine when to believe that gossip magazines are true then? When a German tabloid says that Maxima is pregnant for the tenth time do we believe that? Do we believe the gossip stories that say Mary is the "Scandinavian Imedla Marcos?" Do we believe it when the tabloids say that the Juan Carlos hates baby Leonor because she is Letizia's daughter?
One chooses what one wants to believe, whether it comes from a tabloid or elsewhere.