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You can tell she was a newsreader, eh?
You can tell she was a newsreader, eh?
She killed it, as usual when it comes to do speeches.
- Meeting with Pope Francisco
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She really, honestly Looks divine in red.
But I am a bit surprised, that she wears red (but: hair up!) when Meeting the Pope. It does not seem to be an "official audience", also the Pope is known for not being strict on protocol.....
but I am still wondering.....
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Letizia's own body image has been suject to disussions in previous years and still is, for being too thin.
In Belgium we have the opposite these days, the minister of health is a really, really full figured woman, to put it politely.
In both cases, people are questioning the credibility of the representative although they do not stand there for themselves but are representing the monarchy/government.
Duke, Queen Letizia attended as a special guest of FAO / WHO, the representative of the Spanish government at the conference was the Minister of Agriculture.
Moonmaiden, obesity is a problem of malnutrition... other diseases you mentioned are a psychological disease, and therefore were not part of this debate. If you visit the website of the FAO conference, you will see that there is no mention of these issues, because WHO includes them in mental illness.
I do not think you've read the whole speech of the queen, because for me this makes clear the extent to which obesity is a big problem ..."800 million people suffer from chronic hunger and more than 1,400 overweight and obese"...
Duke, Queen Letizia attended as a special guest of FAO / WHO, the representative of the Spanish government at the conference was the Minister of Agriculture.
Queen Letizia, then Princess, went months ago to WHO headquarters in Geneva to prepare this conference. For several years Letiza has worked with Dr. Maria Neira, a Spanish woman who is Director of the Department of Public and Environmental Health of WHO, and is a specialist in endocrinology.
I admit that I am a little surprised by Queen Letizia's speech. The focus of the conference was malnutrition in all it's aspects. But Letizia seemed to zero in on obesity alone as the root of all evil ,with no mention of the polar problem- anorexia and distorted body image.
Obesity caused by poor nutrition is as much a global health concern for young people as is body dysmorphia. Just check out the shocking number of websites promoting emaciated, skeletal looking females as ideals to be aspired to. There are scores of young women who literally starve themselves and deprive their bodies of vital nutrients to look that way.
I found her speech very disappointing for that reason.
Your points are valid. All European royal ladies busy themselves with charitable causes as they try hard to show their usefulness and hard work. I do not think this supposedly hard work yields tangible results. Queen Maxima and Crown Princess Mary just live in better economic conditions or perhaps have less corrupt governments....[snipped]
I found it more ironic when royals visited poor Africans staying in the most luxurious hotels; Maxima lectured on how to save money; Mary on maternity with all the privileges/helps, even a Danish public hospital reserved a suit for her for days in case she had baby(s).
The conference on nutrition is a useless discussion with useless participants.
I found it more ironic when royals visited poor Africans staying in the most luxurious hotels; Maxima lectured on how to save money; Mary on maternity with all the privileges/helps, even a Danish public hospital reserved a suit for her for days in case she had baby(s).