For me, may be I can be wrong, the Princes of Asturias have to make an hard work whatever the events are. It's not because this summer they were the el Jueves cover incident, the bikini indiscretion, the speculation of The Times about spanish monarchy, and all that harbour the press's articles, well-founded or not, that the Princes of Asturias have to work outside watching at themselves with " eyes of fishes dead of love", or with the cap of fathers of a "so beautiful and naughty fair curled hair little baby girl"
I agree that they always had one of the most challenging agendas, certainly because they have to, maybe also because they want to. My point is that this summer was not exactly friendly towards the monarchy or the princes in particular; even more a reason to bring them back to full speed in their activities. More than ever they have to work hard to win people over after all these headlines during the summer (and I am not talking about silly issues as the bikini - never understood the fuss - but things like the auditor, el jueves, Letizia's absence at certain events during her maternity etc). I could imagine that in other monarchies a CP with two toddlers would be allowed to cut her agenda a bit short here and there, no option in Spain.
We can't underestimate the Prince of Asturias' s vision. Since he is very young, he is reapeting that the throne is for him a work of each day, he HAS to win the throne by his work all minutes long.
Exactly, this is what his father indoctrinated into Felipe and it becomes more and more true these days as Spain will not hesitate to kick them out if they don't work hard.
Some people, in particularly among the aristocratic circles are thinking that he is not so clever as his father, they are suspicious about his qualities to reign and they don't apologize his wedding with Letizia Ortiz. But they aren't all the Spain.
If you look around there are monarchs or heirs to the throne who are not too bright or too hard working but loved and respected by the public and CPs who don't have Letizia's work load and are more in the spotlight as their husbands but don't have to face all this critizism. It's bad luck for them that the situation in Spain is as it is, they'd have an easier journey in other countries where people wouldn't worry too much about Letizia being the granddaughter of a taxi driver.
In this circunstances, outfit reapeting or not, sleeves so long or too short, what's the matter ? the most important thing is the global image of a princely couple who understand the necessity to involve them in the hard working in item up to the situations, according Royal House's directives.
I agree, adelaide, if this was an ideal world. Unfortunately, media and society have become more and more superficial and direct their focus on non work issues. If you did a survey and ask people what comes to their minds regarding the princes people will think first of things like Leonor being cute, Letizia's skirt incident or that her sister died, meaning that first and foremost visual appearance matters and that should be immaculate because only people who show a deeper interest will then take a look at their work. But to be fair, this situation might be the same in many other countries, not only in Spain.
