There's also the rumors about her having had a long term relationship lasting years with an Italian man.Henri M. said:Miss Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti, now HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands has lived on three addresses in New York.
- in 1994, after graduating, Máxima moved to Boston for a language course and a post-graduate course, this was only for a limited period
- in 1995 Máxima moved to New York and lived with Valeria Uranga Rueda (daughter of the director of Asociación Conciencia, a political think tank focusing on Latin America). Valeria's mother Silvia Rueda de Uranga is the executive director and a friend of Máxima's mother María del Carmen Cerruti de Zorreguieta.
- In 1996 Máxima became vice-president Latin-American Institution Sales at HSBC James Capel Inc. in New York
- in May 1997 Máxima moved to Soho in New York City, where she was roommates with a guy named David Anness
- in December 1997 Máxima moved to Chelsea in New York, where she lived at 225 West 20th street, Apt. 2W. She shared this appartement with a guy named Dieter Zimmermann, an American, with whom Máxima would have had a short relationship
- in 1998 Máxima became vice-president Emerging Markets (Equities) at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York
- in 1999 she met Prince Willem-Alexander in Sevilla (Spain)
- in 1999 Máxima became vice-president Institutional Sales at the Deutsche Bank in New York
- in 2000 Máxima worked at the EU-representative office of Deutsche Bank in Brussels
- in March 2001 she became engaged to Prince Willem-Alexander and moved to Huis ten Bosch Palace, to live with the Queen and Prince Claus until the wedding in 2002.
donnaK said:Then you must not have heard what the Spanish King Juan Carlos told his son 'Zarzuela is the place to work, not the place to display fashion' .
marian said:Princess Letizia worked in a newspaper named "siglo XXI" (century XXI) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I belive that she had a boyfriend in this city. I dont remember his name, but I belive that he was a married man. Here, in Mexico, too, after we knowing the royal commitment, people criticized Letizia for posing, supposedly, in topless, for a front page of a disc of a group called Maná, which, in the particular thing, I do not like this group.
I have understood, also, that she, which was not still known, asked for work in Aztec television, and they did not give it to her.
fandesacs2003 said:This is very very nasty for Eva. She was working like a model to pay her studies, it does not mean that her ONLY interest was the fashion..... Many students work, but this does not mean that these "summer" jobs are their ONLY choice...
Letizia used to work in a pizza restaurant as a waitress when she was studying in South America, (I think in Mexico)
Why serving pizzas is better that working in the catwalk???
And Letizia's granfather was taxi driver, why is better
There is no shame to any job.......
marian said:Princess Letizia worked in a newspaper named "siglo XXI" (century XXI) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I belive that she had a boyfriend in this city. I dont remember his name, but I belive that he was a married man. Here, in Mexico, too, after we knowing the royal commitment, people criticized Letizia for posing, supposedly, in topless, for a front page of a disc of a group called Maná, which, in the particular thing, I do not like this group.
marian said:Princess Letizia worked in a newspaper named "siglo XXI" (century XXI) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I belive that she had a boyfriend in this city. I dont remember his name, but I belive that he was a married man. Here, in Mexico, too, after we knowing the royal commitment, people criticized Letizia for posing, supposedly, in topless, for a front page of a disc of a group called Maná, which, in the particular thing, I do not like this group.
I have understood, also, that she, which was not still known, asked for work in Aztec television, and they did not give it to her.
donnaK said:She had been an underwear model since age of 15. The public education in Norway is free, thus she didn't model to pay for her studies. .
And Mette Marit with her large ekstasis past........, how could she be a QueendonnaK said:but so far none of the former underwear models made it to be a future Queen. .
donnaK said:Those rumors have been denied.
fandesacs2003 said:It was a way to earn some money, and she was not a prostitute...
And Mette Marit with her large ekstasis past........, how could she be a Queen
EmpressRouge said:The press and public were merciless in criticizing Eva, and she had other issues going against her besides her profession. If you look at the some of the other threads/posts in the forums, Eva was not very discrete during her relationship with Felipe: she blabbed to the press and was photographed topless (abet she was sunbathing at the beach). And of course there was the tastelessly inappropriate blue dress to Haakon and Mette-Marit's wedding. Had she married Felipe, she might have gained acceptance as Princess/Queen eventually, but she had a lot going against her.
fandesacs2003 said:This is why IMO, Letizia, being engaged she was always "covered", she learned from Eva's story.
Verde Esmeralda said:She actually admitted, in her weblog, that she feared that Felipe was still thinking about Eva, even though they were already married...
Letizia has a weblog??Verde Esmeralda said:She actually admitted, in her weblog, that she feared that Felipe was still thinking about Eva, even though they were already married...
fandesacs2003 said:She was stunning with this blue dress, but of course it was inappropriate..... She lost Felipe in some kind by "vanity", she dressed a gown that made her beautiful, but she should have avoided.....
This is why IMO, Letizia, being engaged she was always "covered", she learned from Eva's story.
I do not know anything else about Eva's mistakes, I think it was just a chock of cultures.... In Norway it may be normal to sunbath topless, for a future Queen of Spain it was
About talking to the press I read that she was very discrete. An important "people" magazine offered her a huge amount to talk about her relationship with Felipe, but she refused.
We should not by unfair with her. She suffered a lot from press, she was pursued every day by them, and finally she lost everything....
Interesting comment. Quick question though: when is Felipe said to have met Letizia, what year was that, and when did he breake up with Eva?Akilah said:Did any one see Letizia's red dress at the Danish? To me, it was just as inappropriate as Eva's blue number. I think Letizia's saving grace was her relationship with Felipe was not known until the engagement was announced. Then six months later they were married. I think it took the media a little longer to dig up scandalous info on Letizia due to she was already a TV journalist who had to adhere to a certain decorum to maintain her job, and that she she did not talk to the media unless instructed or accompanied by Felipe.
Akilah said:Did any one see Letizia's red dress at the Danish? To me, it was just as inappropriate as Eva's blue number. I think Letizia's saving grace was her relationship with Felipe was not known until the engagement was announced. Then six months later they were married. I think it took the media a little longer to dig up scandalous info on Letizia due to she was already a TV journalist who had to adhere to a certain decorum to maintain her job, and that she she did not talk to the media unless instructed or accompanied by Felipe.
princess olga said:Interesting comment. Quick question though: when is Felipe said to have met Letizia, what year was that, and when did he breake up with Eva?
Akilah said:Did any one see Letizia's red dress at the Danish? To me, it was just as inappropriate as Eva's blue number.
fandesacs2003 said:Felipe took the lesson, and they hidde their relationship. .
fandesacs2003 said:If Letizia had the same situation, who knows how she would have reacted.
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donnaK said:. Letizia had never granted any interview, nor did she write or say anything in any weblog.
Eva went to Westerdals School of Communication for 2 or 3 years which is a private school, and costs today approx 50 000 NOK a year plus other expenses like books, materials, travels etc, this cannot be covered with the normal studenloans in Norway, certainly not when you are living in Oslo, then you need a job on the side, or rich parents . Compared to that higher public education costs like 1000 NOK a year plus books etc etc.donnaK said:She had been an underwear model since age of 15. The public education in Norway is free, thus she didn't model to pay for her studies.
Verde Esmeralda said:You're right, Donna K. What I remembered reading & mentioned in my previous post, is a "respectful literary fiction about the public life of a private person" (as said at the very end). I just checked again to be sure
It is in Spanish, but there is a link to English.
El diario de Letizia Ortiz: El Eva-Test
fandesacs2003 said:Nothing on this story makes me happy or unhappy. It is their life. I dp not get "personnally" involved.
She could of course become very very very famous, but at this moment she wasn't. This is a fact.
She may have become a female "Larry KIng" or even Prime Minister, but for the moment she was just a good young "local" journalist, nothing more. There are thousand like this, to all TV chains and newspapers.
And now she will become a Queen, and she will stay in the History.
She is happy and bravo, Felipe also. But I do not see the reason for some people to become "angry" whe we say something not 100% positive for her.
fandesacs2003 said:There is no comparison about what she was before and was she is now. This is no underevaluating her qualities, it is just analysing some facts.
fandesacs2003 said:Quite all actual CP, were not belonging to this world, except CP Mathilde.
Maxima, Mary, Letizia, Mette Maritt(!) may had their own value, but they are thousand of girls like this and it is not their "normally expected" destinies to become Queens. But this is nor a blame neither a shame. So I do not understand why on the Spanish Forums, some people "jump and shout" and are trying to persuade us that Letizia would have become the 8th miracle of the World, without having met Felipe.
Doña Metizia said:Do you happen to remember the link for "Felipe's blog"?