Letizia's big problem was that from the first moment she became the most beneficial character for a type of press whose main job is to criticize and destroy people. A press that generates audiences with criticism and scandal and to which it is not interesting to sell anything positive ... and in the end with that machinery, together with Internet and the character of Spanish people ... it is impossible to fight. The image of a public character is created by the media, and many times that image is something superficial that responds to certain interests... really few people have interest to know more.
If from the beginning the Royal House had put a limit on that, things would have been different ... but Juan Carlos had his particular agreement with the press, and while he was still being protected, the press needed a victim. They have won a lot of money with Letizia ... and as in Spain the Royal House does not complaint, as there are no codes to control the press ...
Now it's definitely late, and probably only time will put things in place.
Even Julia Melchior, the German journalist who made the documentary has made statements surprised by the attitude of the Spanish press.
"That is my observation: I see that the Spanish media are very critical of the Queen. The difference between them and us is that they don't stay long either because they have another reason: they come, take the picture and leave. But we stay and watch her, for example, chatting with people with rare diseases and it opens your heart to see the time she spends with those people, how it affects her ..."
"I think that has to do with the passionate Spanish character: you are very Goya, very white or black. In addition, she is compared a lot with Queen Sofia when her challenges are more complicated today with the challenges of the Internet and social networks ... Someone in the documentary says that they have to let her do it and that she will do it very well. And this is what I am trying to count on this program: you have to criticize her less and let her do more because she can change the world a little for good."
"And the Germans, how do they see Letizia?
Cold and distant, like the Spaniards, because the German press copies what the Spanish writes. She has a perfect image, very cute and a little distant. We, with all the hours that we have 'spied on', have discovered a very human person that does not correspond to the image of her."
https://www.vanitatis.elconfidencia...julia-melchior-documental-entrevista_2184035/
