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"Let me finish", she told the Prince, when he interrupted her, on the day of the engagement. That spontaneous gesture, so discussed, was left in the shadaw, echoing the words she then proffered regarding her learning as Princess of Asturias: "With the non-payable example of the Queen", she said.
A year after the wedding, the Spaniards willingly accept the transformation of the Asturian journalist into consort of the Heir to the Throne. Doña Letizia has learned, but it is not possible to be doubted that she has also been the reason why the Prince now smiles so much.
JOSE APEZARENA (Biographer of the Prince)
Apezarena is the person in charge of a series of 18 televising chapters about the Prince, which were transmitted by Telecinco in 2002. He considers that the Princess shall limit herself "to help him and to accompany him". This journalist remembers that "Doña Sofía did not take a clear protagonism, until very little ago. Before, we were not even used to listen her speaking and it seems to me that they’re trying that the things happen the same way at La Zarzuela"; and this in spite of the new times and the fact that Doña Letizia was not born in palace cradle. "It would be much strange for me that she could claim a more active role. Her true vital shock already has taken place. She abandoned a very dynamic profession to be buried in La Zarzuela, and we can’t forget that the decision of her living at Zarzuela was adopted just half a year before the wedding". That unexpected solution, which surprised all Spaniards "was a success", he assures.
But not always it was a way of roses for Doña Letizia: "I understand that she had to acclimate herself very much to her new life. In those first months, the fiancès sporadically went for a walk, and the Prince often went out with her, so that she could escape a little from that situation".
There’s no doubt that the presence of this Asturian woman among the Royal Family has brought freshness, but he remembers that the King and Queen have always been people of their time: "we can’t forget that their children studied in normal universities. The Princess is a very modern girl, but she’s also very disciplined and I know that she participates every the morning in the meetings and her voice is listened to". Besides, now "the Prince doesn’t go out anymore with his group of friends, and attends more concerts and museums, which is also good".
Apezarena thinks that Doña Letizia "has passed the exam" and that her pregnancy is a great point to be added to those good marks.
AURELIO MENÉNDEZ (Lawyer and teacher of Don Felipe)
"Doña Letizia has brought joy into the palace of La Zarzuela and she’s contributed to the Prince’s stability". Aurelio Menéndez is one of those few people who have the privilege to know well the future King of Spain. He thinks that soon we will see her presiding some official acts alone: "there’s no doubt that her previous professional experience and obviously the skills she learned during the last year allows us to say that she’s sufficiently prepared to appear alone in an institutional act, without the company of the Prince". He thinks that "Doña Letizia has brought to the palace of La Zarzuela the joy provided by the wedding of the Prince, along with the satisfaction and serenity that derives from the incorporation in the Royal Family of a person with the required will and qualities, to assume such a high responsibility, as the one that she has assumed". And as far as the Prince is concerned, the former teacher says that "she has contributed to the stability and happiness that’s only provided by the woman with whom one’s in love".
SABINO FERNÁNDEZ CAMPO (Ex- head of the House of the King)
"I would sincerely dare to point out some flaws, if I discovered them, because by doing so, my declarations would be more credible, sincere and independent", assures Sabino Fernández-Campo. The Count of Latores refers to Doña Letizia, who he esteems and respects, because "she is very intelligent, she has ample experience of life, she is conscious of her new role and she’s in love with the Prince". All those ingredients have helped to form the image with which the Princess of Asturias every day conquests new admirers.
Fernández Campo notices an evolution, since her first public appearances, till the most recent ones, but it thinks it’s more interesting "to consider the attitude that she assumes in each occasion, measuring her attitude with respect towards the Prince and the rest of the Royal Family, without eagerness to excessively stand out or to pass ignored, always finding the exact border between both positions (that is to say, the always desirable midpoint will be the secret of the success that we wish)".
Regarding Doña Letizia’s ability to preside over acts in solitaire, Sabino Fernandez Campo remembers that "she already attended an official act alone, when she pronounced with briskness the appropriate words to the occasion".
MATÍAS RODRIGUEZ (Spokesman of Adolfo Domínguez)
For Matías Rodriguez, the supposed style transformation of Doña Letizia is "inappreciable". "I think that she remains faithful to her style, since she indifferently uses skirt and trousers and besides the suits have almost the same style as previously". The truth is that her jackets resemble very much to the ones she used on TV. Rodriguez doesn’t disguise his admiration for her "for how she adapted herself to her new role... so handsome. I believe that she is perfect ".
Regarding her new haircut, the image expert considers that "it flatters her face, but it isn’t newness either, because she often used to cut the hair".
PILAR MUIÑOS (InternationalSchool of Protocol)
In her humble opinion, Doña Letizia "has been correct", although "sometimes, too much". This expert in protocol adds that now it seems that "the one that is a novice is the Prince, whereas she seems more rigid. It seems that the influence between both of them has caused an interchange of roles". Pilar Muiños considers that the future Queen "knows, first of all, to be a great observer. The Royal Family surely helped her very much. The complicity glances between the Princess and her husband seem as if he meant to her: 'be calm: we are with you and everything is O.K.’".
It is not less certain that an evolution is perceived in her behaviour: "she did not interrupt the Prince again, as she did the day of the engagement and that is a clear example that something has changed in her attitude". Nevertheless, that progress has taken place in such a short time that even the best experts admit their surprise. Her job as a journalist helped her to act in very difficult situations and, above all, to have a worthy constancy before the cameras. Most of the time, there are hundreds of cameras pointing at her, as it happened at the Campoamor theatre, for the Prizes Prince of Asturias. The words that her husband dedicated to her, before an audience who saw her growing up, have paralyzed her. "Some people say that she should have stand up, but she remained seated. What it is strange to me is that she didn’t know what the Prince was going to say. Her emotion was so great that it must have been a surprise", comments Pilar Muiños. It is also regarding the way of dressing that Pilar Muiños realizes a clearer evolution of the Princess. "Since the engagement till now, I can see an input of seriousness to the way she dresses". Protocol says nothing about repeating outfits, whenever it is the appropriate to the occasion, and she sees with good eyes that a Spanish princess "promotes the fashion of her country".
"Let me finish", she told the Prince, when he interrupted her, on the day of the engagement. That spontaneous gesture, so discussed, was left in the shadaw, echoing the words she then proffered regarding her learning as Princess of Asturias: "With the non-payable example of the Queen", she said.
A year after the wedding, the Spaniards willingly accept the transformation of the Asturian journalist into consort of the Heir to the Throne. Doña Letizia has learned, but it is not possible to be doubted that she has also been the reason why the Prince now smiles so much.
JOSE APEZARENA (Biographer of the Prince)
Apezarena is the person in charge of a series of 18 televising chapters about the Prince, which were transmitted by Telecinco in 2002. He considers that the Princess shall limit herself "to help him and to accompany him". This journalist remembers that "Doña Sofía did not take a clear protagonism, until very little ago. Before, we were not even used to listen her speaking and it seems to me that they’re trying that the things happen the same way at La Zarzuela"; and this in spite of the new times and the fact that Doña Letizia was not born in palace cradle. "It would be much strange for me that she could claim a more active role. Her true vital shock already has taken place. She abandoned a very dynamic profession to be buried in La Zarzuela, and we can’t forget that the decision of her living at Zarzuela was adopted just half a year before the wedding". That unexpected solution, which surprised all Spaniards "was a success", he assures.
But not always it was a way of roses for Doña Letizia: "I understand that she had to acclimate herself very much to her new life. In those first months, the fiancès sporadically went for a walk, and the Prince often went out with her, so that she could escape a little from that situation".
There’s no doubt that the presence of this Asturian woman among the Royal Family has brought freshness, but he remembers that the King and Queen have always been people of their time: "we can’t forget that their children studied in normal universities. The Princess is a very modern girl, but she’s also very disciplined and I know that she participates every the morning in the meetings and her voice is listened to". Besides, now "the Prince doesn’t go out anymore with his group of friends, and attends more concerts and museums, which is also good".
Apezarena thinks that Doña Letizia "has passed the exam" and that her pregnancy is a great point to be added to those good marks.
AURELIO MENÉNDEZ (Lawyer and teacher of Don Felipe)
"Doña Letizia has brought joy into the palace of La Zarzuela and she’s contributed to the Prince’s stability". Aurelio Menéndez is one of those few people who have the privilege to know well the future King of Spain. He thinks that soon we will see her presiding some official acts alone: "there’s no doubt that her previous professional experience and obviously the skills she learned during the last year allows us to say that she’s sufficiently prepared to appear alone in an institutional act, without the company of the Prince". He thinks that "Doña Letizia has brought to the palace of La Zarzuela the joy provided by the wedding of the Prince, along with the satisfaction and serenity that derives from the incorporation in the Royal Family of a person with the required will and qualities, to assume such a high responsibility, as the one that she has assumed". And as far as the Prince is concerned, the former teacher says that "she has contributed to the stability and happiness that’s only provided by the woman with whom one’s in love".
SABINO FERNÁNDEZ CAMPO (Ex- head of the House of the King)
"I would sincerely dare to point out some flaws, if I discovered them, because by doing so, my declarations would be more credible, sincere and independent", assures Sabino Fernández-Campo. The Count of Latores refers to Doña Letizia, who he esteems and respects, because "she is very intelligent, she has ample experience of life, she is conscious of her new role and she’s in love with the Prince". All those ingredients have helped to form the image with which the Princess of Asturias every day conquests new admirers.
Fernández Campo notices an evolution, since her first public appearances, till the most recent ones, but it thinks it’s more interesting "to consider the attitude that she assumes in each occasion, measuring her attitude with respect towards the Prince and the rest of the Royal Family, without eagerness to excessively stand out or to pass ignored, always finding the exact border between both positions (that is to say, the always desirable midpoint will be the secret of the success that we wish)".
Regarding Doña Letizia’s ability to preside over acts in solitaire, Sabino Fernandez Campo remembers that "she already attended an official act alone, when she pronounced with briskness the appropriate words to the occasion".
MATÍAS RODRIGUEZ (Spokesman of Adolfo Domínguez)
For Matías Rodriguez, the supposed style transformation of Doña Letizia is "inappreciable". "I think that she remains faithful to her style, since she indifferently uses skirt and trousers and besides the suits have almost the same style as previously". The truth is that her jackets resemble very much to the ones she used on TV. Rodriguez doesn’t disguise his admiration for her "for how she adapted herself to her new role... so handsome. I believe that she is perfect ".
Regarding her new haircut, the image expert considers that "it flatters her face, but it isn’t newness either, because she often used to cut the hair".
PILAR MUIÑOS (InternationalSchool of Protocol)
In her humble opinion, Doña Letizia "has been correct", although "sometimes, too much". This expert in protocol adds that now it seems that "the one that is a novice is the Prince, whereas she seems more rigid. It seems that the influence between both of them has caused an interchange of roles". Pilar Muiños considers that the future Queen "knows, first of all, to be a great observer. The Royal Family surely helped her very much. The complicity glances between the Princess and her husband seem as if he meant to her: 'be calm: we are with you and everything is O.K.’".
It is not less certain that an evolution is perceived in her behaviour: "she did not interrupt the Prince again, as she did the day of the engagement and that is a clear example that something has changed in her attitude". Nevertheless, that progress has taken place in such a short time that even the best experts admit their surprise. Her job as a journalist helped her to act in very difficult situations and, above all, to have a worthy constancy before the cameras. Most of the time, there are hundreds of cameras pointing at her, as it happened at the Campoamor theatre, for the Prizes Prince of Asturias. The words that her husband dedicated to her, before an audience who saw her growing up, have paralyzed her. "Some people say that she should have stand up, but she remained seated. What it is strange to me is that she didn’t know what the Prince was going to say. Her emotion was so great that it must have been a surprise", comments Pilar Muiños. It is also regarding the way of dressing that Pilar Muiños realizes a clearer evolution of the Princess. "Since the engagement till now, I can see an input of seriousness to the way she dresses". Protocol says nothing about repeating outfits, whenever it is the appropriate to the occasion, and she sees with good eyes that a Spanish princess "promotes the fashion of her country".
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