Your Opinions About Felipe and Letizia

[grevinnan]

Just look at her family - sisters and mother. She will most likely always be very slim. So might as well get over the skinny / sick issue. With all health issues connected with even a slight over weight Letizia is probably the most healthy of all the royals.

 

[adelaide]

I'm sorry to be the one to say this, but Letizia looks sick, she does not look healthy at all. Am I the only one worried about her?

It's very interesting but on which basis you are taking argument to say that. As it was notable her thiness, this point was/is debating whithout any issue, it can't say seriously it's an illness . For the Letizia's case, she was/is always thin; herself recognized that she can't do nothing against that.

But if you have any informations more topic than feelings, please tell us because as you can observe, all that concern the Princess is interesting mainly her health.

 

[JessRulz]

I don't really follow Felipe and Letizia that much, sure if I have time, I will pop into their part of the forum and see what they've been up to and if there's any news on Leonor, but most of the time I just scroll down past the whole Spanish thread, the same way I bypass the Norwegian thread and the Swedish thread (and those in between) on the way to Royal Chit Chat/Royal House of Fashion/etc; mainly because I don't really find them that interesting. Sure they are a nice couple, they are doing a good job for their country, etc etc, but I don't find anything exciting about the way they perform their duties. Letizia is 75-80% of the time wearing a skirt suit in a pastel or neutral colour, and after a while, they do get a little boring. And Felipe is the same: most of the time his suit is black, with a tie to match his wife's outfit. But don't think I'm a fashionista or something just because I comment on their clothes please! I just think that the SRF needs to do something more to make them a little more interesting.
I think that when Letizia is around adults and adults only, she does seem a little cold because I think she thinks "Okay, only adults, must behave in major strict manor", but when she is with Leonor, Pablo, Miguel, Irene etc, she is shades warmer, mainly because she can behave a little less strictly because she's with children.
Now while Letizia has done numerous engagements with Felipe, I think she should do more by herself, like all the other CPs do, but I read somewhere on the board that the SRF is all protocol about Letizia going with Felipe on joint engagements and not doing any solo ones. If they think it is a good idea, then fine, but I think she needs to do more alone, because it would, in my mind at the least, establish that she is an independant woman and does not need to be by her husband's side 24/7.

I do not see Felipe and Letizia in the way some of the other members of this forum do, you know being all fabulous and the like, but I respect the fact that they do and I don't, and no offence was meant in any of my post.

 

[Stefanie]

Whooow, didn´t know that Letizia was together for ten years! with her first husband before marrying him. That fits to my theory that marriages where the contrahents were together long time before, often end with divorce (Was the same with my brother knowing his girlfriend for eight years and the marriage ended after one and half year...)I could imagine that Felipe is now under great pressure to keep the marriage working because he offered an ultimatum: This woman or I quit being crown-prince. (If you believe the press during that period shortly before the engagement was announced)The royal house couldn´t keep her first marriage under the carpet because the press of course immediately found out about that. That´s the reason why it was officially admitted.Felipe is the only male heir and was educated from all the beginning to become the possible next king. He was never asked whether he wants to do that and it might not work out well (like in Belgium, where Phillipe is critizised a lot and even Mathilde´s beauty won´t help him obviously.)Sometimes during the last months king Juan Carlos to me looked kind of disappointed and exhausted. It was so hard for him to prepare for his role as a king, leaving his parents as little boy and all that problems with the Franco-administration. He is aware that he can´t blame Felipe for that but all this should have been one reason for Felipe to really make efforts in becoming a good king specially because he knows that monarchy in Spain stands on shaky legs. But I think with this marrying Letizia he already took the possibility into consideration never to become a king and I´m quite sure he wouldn´t be too sad about that.All the expectations in yellow press that Felipe must marry a catholic noble girl (forced by Queen Sofia) ended for the believers in a big disappointment and that feeling is still in their hearts....

 

[CRIS]

As you can assure this? I believe that you are judging of very bad way the princes. I am not in agreement with which you say.

Felipe must marry a catholic noble girl (forced by Queen Sofia)?
you are based to say all this of which you have read in the yellow magazines?

 

[Nad25]

They are happly married couple who both work hard for their country and i cant see any spanish person complaining about their future Queen...if she wasnt good enough for the spanish monrchy i dont believe that The Princes parents wouldve allowed him to marry princess Letizia, she was a hard working woman who acheived alot in her personal and professional life.

I think she'll make a wonderful Queen (even better than any noble woman)!!!!

 

[Laviollette]

I'm sorry to be the one to say this, but Letizia looks sick, she does not look healthy at all. Am I the only one worried about her?

When I first saw Letizia, I thought she was the most stunningly beautiful woman, imo, in league with Cindy Crawford...


the changes in her weight were evident leading up to her wedding, though she was still beautiful.


Here is a stark comparison: Dona Letizia before her marriage, when she was a journalist -- and the CP after her marriage in 2004.

all pics from: www.letiziaortiz.tk

She recovered her beauty and radiance after becoming pregnant with Infanta Leonor, which she maintained after the birth of her daughter...

pics: getty images

but she is now looking very thin again.

pics: AFP/getty images
and Wireimage

I adore her and think she is the hardest-working CP, but she is noticeably thinner now than before she married into the SRF. I'm not bashing her but it should be okay to say something about her noticeable change in appearance.

 

[CRIS]

She does not have the same life, now works much, always of a side for another one. Soon also this the care of the girl. They are many things that are not the same. And all it repels so that she is not the same one of before. But nevertheless I continue her seeing very well. What it seems to me very bad is to say that she is ill single of being thin.

So I do not understand because to compare when she was journalist. She is thin and she will always be it. The important thing is that she very well this of health.

 

[Alexandria]

I think that when Letizia is around adults and adults only, she does seem a little cold because I think she thinks "Okay, only adults, must behave in major strict manor", but when she is with Leonor, Pablo, Miguel, Irene etc, she is shades warmer, mainly because she can behave a little less strictly because she's with children.

But isn't that true of most situations? When we see Letizia with adults, it is mostly in professional situations, so she has to be business-like, be paying attention to what is being said or what is being asked of her. She's not going to fashion shows or fashion shows in her role as Princess of Asturias. She is going to economic and social engagements that require her to discuss or be informed about Spain's economy and industry, or about Spanish culture and history. How light hearted can one be in such a situation? Is she supposed to crack a joke when meeting the Minister of Fiance of Portugal? ... "So, Minister, have you heard the joke about the chicken and the rooster?"

Just as when she is with Elena or Cristina's kids or her sister's daughter, she wouldn't be talking with them about Spain's transportation bill. She would be talking to them about sports or school or a cartoon character.

You can see that when she is with adults in a non-professional manner, whether it be the King and Queen, Alexia and Carlos or Cristina and Inaki, etc., having dinner or whatever, you can see that she is very relaxed and isn't as "strict" in her mannerisms.

It is very adult and very mature -- very professional! -- I think that Letizia is able to behave as she does. I don't think anyone would want her to change this behaviour of hers.

I just think that the SRF needs to do something more to make them a little more interesting.

But the Spanish royal family -- or any royal family -- isn't about being "interesting" to the public. They have a job to do just like everyone else. Sometimes the places they visit may be exciting or of great interest to some people, but not to everyone. I don't thik a big "splash" or some "fervour" is the kind of attention the Spanish royal family needs or wants.

The royal house couldn´t keep her first marriage under the carpet because the press of course immediately found out about that.

But they didn't even try, so the "couldn't" try by the royal house is redundant. The public knew Letizia before she was associated with Prince Felipe, and knew that she was previously married. There was no attempt at a cover up on Letizia's divorce by the Spanish royal court.

 

[Stefanie]

To Nad25-Permission to marry....

Felipe **** on his parents` opinion about what kind of woman he should marry!Remember the anual military parade in 2003 where he didn´t attend for the first time after becoming crown-prince, because he did some holiday with Letizia in the U.S.A.? Media told that he had this famous argument with his parents where he told them that he definitely would marry Letizia no matter what they say. And what else I noticed: When the press asked Juan Carlos in front of the hospital after Leonor´s birth why the girl was named "Leonor", the king answered: "Well, they seem to have liked the name." With "they" he meant his son and daughter-in-law, which sounded to me that both didn´t care at all what the King and Queen would say about there choice of name and even didn´t talk together about that theme. To me it made the impression that Felipe and his parents don´t seem to be close to each other any more or never have been!And to Letizias slim-look: She doesn´t look slim but emaciated, washed-out and bushed. Her hair looks dull with that hanging down like spaghetti all the time. Her hands are bony the same with her larynx and neck.

 

[Mathilde1286]

There is a big difference in her weight, that's all I mean. When I look at her pictures in current events, I notice that sometimes she looks thinner than the last time I saw pictures. I can't speak for anyone else, but to me she looks like only skin and bone. There can't be anything healthy with looking like that! -And no, no one is THAT thin. There is a difference between healthy thin (no fat visible, but still looking "full") and sick thin (bones showing and face gaunt). And even when the "camera adds 10 pounds," that doesn't help at all. I mean no bashing or angry remarks, only my opinion.

Laviollette, I agree with what you mean.

 

[Alexandria]

And what else I noticed: When the press asked Juan Carlos in front of the hospital after Leonor´s birth why the girl was named "Leonor", the king answered: "Well, they seem to have liked the name." With "they" he meant his son and daughter-in-law, which sounded to me that both didn´t care at all what the King and Queen would say about there choice of name and even didn´t talk together about that theme. To me it made the impression that Felipe and his parents don´t seem to be close to each other any more or never have been!

If this were a law show, and you were testifying, the other lawyer would get up and say "Objection, leading the witness your honour." The above is purely speculation.

Should Felipe and Letizia have named their daughter after something the King and Queen preferred? If so, then what about Letizia's parents? Why shouldn't they have had some input in their granddaughter's name, too, since they are also her grandparents?

How common is it that grandparents choose their grandchildren's name? Perhaps the King and Queen did have some personal preferences or favourites on what Leonor might've been named, but they also probably had some preferences on what Cristina and Elena's children might've been named. At the end of it all, it was Felipe and Letizia's daughter and whatever they named her is what everyone would have to be happy for, especially since in Spain there isn't a tradition like in Denmark of heirs being named something in alternation, such as Christian and Frederik.

Should the King have said instead, "Well, they've chosen to name her Leonor. They seem to like the name. But my wife, the Queen and I hate the name."

 

[Anna_R]

Felipe **** on his parents` opinion about what kind of woman he should marry!

And what kind of woman should this be? The kind of woman for who he wouldn't share any feelings, the kind of woman that would become a baby machine and would bow her head to his every wish?

Or some noble woman he had never seen in his life but was chosen by his parents?

Felipe was a grown man when he met Letizia, an intelligent, well educated accomplished woman. They fell in love! Should he throw it all away to marry someone he didn't love or care about?

Remember the anual military parade in 2003 where he didn´t attend for the first time after becoming crown-prince, because he did some holiday with Letizia in the U.S.A.? Media told that he had this famous argument with his parents where he told them that he definitely would marry Letizia no matter what they say.

And if this is true, I say bravo to him for that!

And what else I noticed: When the press asked Juan Carlos in front of the hospital after Leonor´s birth why the girl was named "Leonor", the king answered: "Well, they seem to have liked the name." With "they" he meant his son and daughter-in-law, which sounded to me that both didn´t care at all what the King and Queen would say about there choice of name and even didn´t talk together about that theme.

So, do you think now that your parents should name your child? As far as I'm concerned, I (and my husband) will be the ones choosing the names of our children.

To me it made the impression that Felipe and his parents don´t seem to be close to each other any more or never have been!

Exactly, just an impression! When a child marry, it's obvious that the relationship with their parents changes, there's now a new person in his life and it is with that person that one is supposed to live and raise a family with!

And to Letizias slim-look: She doesn´t look slim but emaciated, washed-out and bushed. Her hair looks dull with that hanging down like spaghetti all the time. Her hands are bony the same with her larynx and neck.

And I would like to know how such a sick woman was able to carry a full term pregnancy, give birth to a healthy baby and is able to carry the many duties and trips she's carried in these two years? Just wondering...

 

[catango]

I don't know what the problem is if she is thin or not, she is beautiful anyway, and FELIPE IS AN ADULT, HE CAN TAKE HIS OWN DECISION, and if he wanted to marry with Letizia is because he loves her, that is the important thing, no more.

 

[Nad25]

reffering to some comments on Princess Letizia, no one DENY that theyre public figures who are being talked about all the time and in the roylas case its called 'rumors'.

Secondly...If i had a baby me and my husband are the first people who are going to name our baby because it our child, my family can give their opinion on what to name our child but its down to both of us to name the child....as for the Princes of Austuris i guess its down to them to name thier child because its their BABY

Thirdly yes she was a divorcee but her first marriage wasnt a valid one in the eyes of the church and im half Catholic and can tell you that its absoulty ture so if the church is ok with Princess Letizia and excepted her in the family i think people sholud get over her past because no one is the least interested

She comes from a respected family who arent nobel but hard working people who proved them selves in their professional life and in this case its Princess Letizia whos a well known TV presenter whos worked hard in her professional life and continues to do so after she married Prince Felipe some people need to give her the credit and stop specalating things they might not be true ...no one knows excatly what goes on in their lives but from Prince Felipes wedding pictures every one including the King and Queen of Spain looked over the moon on their Son's day...Letizia is gorgeous, looks down to earth person, hard worker and why wouldnt any1 be glad for such person to join their family

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

And what else I noticed: When the press asked Juan Carlos in front of the hospital after Leonor´s birth why the girl was named "Leonor", the king answered: "Well, they seem to have liked the name." With "they" he meant his son and daughter-in-law, which sounded to me that both didn´t care at all what the King and Queen would say about there choice of name and even didn´t talk together about that theme. To me it made the impression that Felipe and his parents don´t seem to be close to each other any more or never have been!And to Letizias slim-look: She doesn´t look slim but emaciated, washed-out and bushed. Her hair looks dull with that hanging down like spaghetti all the time. Her hands are bony the same with her larynx and neck.

Well, they could have told this sentence, but we have loans of videos of the first visit the Kings payed to their granddaughter and they said also several other things: that the name is precioso (beautiful) and has deep historical background (Leonor, Queen of Portugal, Catalunia, etc., etc.). They were simply enchanted by the baby and it's name.

As for Letizia thin figure, would you rather she was fat and ugly? It's the case of her metabolism and believe me, every woman would love to have such slender body half a year after labour, wheather it looks healthy or not. Anyway, she and the rest of SRF has plenty of specialists and doctors around her, so if she really has a problem (I don't think so), she will have somecody to help her.

 

[adelaide]

I understand less and less this thread. Now, if we make a summaize, we have people very found the crown princes ( I'm) for affectiv and irrational reasons ( me )I this grup we have people who can make analysis of their attraction explaining it by the charism of the couple, the growth of their public image by th way the rise of Felipe's strengh as a heir of a very popular King, helping by his wife working beside him. It's very intersesting even we can read a lot of platitudes about the color of his tie or the repetition of Letizia's outfits. TheY are not on the "figth fields" to make an elegance racing. I'm deeply convinced that the Letizia's way of dress is very carefully choosen to give a specific representation of her role. For the dark suits of the Prince, I don't understand very well the meaning because I know ONE crown prince quiet dandy, it's Prince Charles, but I fear that the savil road elegance ( very refined one, sur! ) is not the reference and good one to opening a meeting in Caceres or Alicante. The Prince Felipe 's way of dress is very classical with the only concession to match ( some time) his tie with the main color of his wife 's outfit. So what! even that, I'm sur it's not an advice to give an specific image of their couple and may be It's a way for Felipe to give a loved and unprotocolar wink at his wife.

For the detractors of the couple, we can observe that those who don'tlike them, in fact, don't apreciate Letizia at all.... for irrelevant reasons. Not for tha fact that she is working a lot cetainly more than all the european crown princess, not for the fact that she had to adapt herself at a very strict and often anachronic way of life. NO, the two arguments that we read and reagain again are: she was a divorced woman ( One of us said may be she is the most honest because, the others crownprincess lived during 6/7 years with an man OUTSIDE mariage, and she is the only one who get married... very good appreciation! ) And she is THIN.

Please can we stopped with that because it's obvious that we can do NOTHING about that, and Letizia even more. May I tell you that it's not us we are making love with this very beautiful .....and isn't seems to be a problem for the both....


To make a conclusion if we can to rise the debat, may be we can make this thread more interesting.

 

[Laviollette]

There is a big difference in her weight, that's all I mean. When I look at her pictures in current events, I notice that sometimes she looks thinner than the last time I saw pictures. I can't speak for anyone else, but to me she looks like only skin and bone. There can't be anything healthy with looking like that! -And no, no one is THAT thin. There is a difference between healthy thin (no fat visible, but still looking "full") and sick thin (bones showing and face gaunt). And even when the "camera adds 10 pounds," that doesn't help at all. I mean no bashing or angry remarks, only my opinion.

Laviollette, I agree with what you mean.

You are so right about the difference between 'healthy thin' and 'sick thin' because it's photographically evident that Letizia is not a healthy thin. Like Stefanie said, she has an emaciated face and dull hair. The picture I posted of her in that yellow dress is shocking compared to the before photo. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this but I'm glad someone else besides me notices this and is bothered by it.

 

[lula]

I do not understand the insistence again and again in this topic. Letizia is thin, since they it are her sisters. There are people who is thin and cannot do anything to avoid it. Evidently with the life that goes travelling always and with very much stress she has difficultly enough to take weight. She caught weight during the pregnancy like it any woman takes and later she lost how ishe is normal.

If someone looks for Letizia's photos in active periods like when she was in Iraq or in Galicia also she was thinner. And she was more rather fat when she was several months without moving of the set of television.
Thin being does not mean to have a problem of health, there are people who has a certain metabolism.

We live in the world of the image, and certain stereotypes exist. But in the world there are fat people and there are thin people .... and they are not sick ... what provokes the diseases is the people who pledges in saying others to them like they must be.

And I say it because I know a very thin girl probably more than Letizia, that she has a metabolic problem and for this problem she cannot put on weight. And the poor girl spendsit badly very badly because however much she does she does not manage to put on weight.
It is necessary to understand that it is that great people do not want to understand, that like in the world there are fat people who has difficulties to lose weight there are thin people who has difficulties to gain it.

For example, Maria Teresa of Luxembourg has put on weight very much in the last years; and if she has done it it is for a question of her metabolism not because the day passes eating and without doing anything.
Neither Maria Teresa nor Letizia are sick what they will end up by making ill is that there are people who does not want understands and that again and again this one with the same topic.

 

[highpriestess]

As a feminist, I found all this insistence that Letizia isn't an ideal royal bride because she's a divorcee - in other words, not a virgin - and not from a "noble" family degrading and sexist.

Here is a woman who actually proved her intelligence, professionalism and work ethic by reaching the top of her profession in a cutthroat field. Yet, some people still think she's not qualified to be the wife of a crown prince simply because she didn't win the bloodline sweepstake and she's not a virgin. Virginity and bloodline were the only assests a woman could possess before the 20th century. But now it's the 21th century people!!! Women have a lot more value than virginity and being a good breeder with a "correct" bloodline.

Diana Spencer, a young woman who's not well educated and had no career prospect, was considered the ideal royal bride simply because she's from a noble family and she's a virgin. We all know how well that marriage turned out and how much damage she did to the British monarchy.

 

[planetcher]

The other crown princesses are no virgins either.

 

[Laviollette]

I can't see where Letizia's previous marriage or her not being a virgin would disqualify her from serving her country, which she has done with excellence so far. I wish she'd gain a little more weight but she's a hard-working royal and has a loving and seemingly romantic relationship with her husband Felipe. After Diana of Wales, I don't think we're going to see an aristocratic, royal, virginal or young bride for a long, long time.

 

[grevinnan]

A moratorium on Letizia's weight would be welcome. She looks and acts healthy, vigoruos, radiant and comfortable. She is and will most likely always be thin. Much healthier to be thin than fat.

 

[soCal girl]

A moratorium on Letizia's weight would be welcome. She looks and acts healthy, vigoruos, radiant and comfortable. She is and will most likely always be thin. Much healthier to be thin than fat.

I agree with your statement except for the last part. It's not always much healthier to be thin than fat, it really depends on the person, family history etc. But getting off topic here! Letizia and Felipe love each other and work very hard for their country. As much as I would love to see Letizia do some solo official duties, that's not up to me. Hopefully in due time we will. So far she has done everything a future Queen is expected to do. Represent her country, support her husband, and produce an heir. What's to really complain about?

 

[adelaide]

I agree with your statement except for the last part. It's not always much healthier to be thin than fat, it really depends on the person, family history etc. But getting off topic here! Letizia and Felipe love each other and work very hard for their country. As much as I would love to see Letizia do some solo official duties, that's not up to me. Hopefully in due time we will. So far she has done everything a future Queen is expected to do. Represent her country, support her husband, and produce an heir. What's to really complain about?

Totaly agree with tha two last sentences because what she can do else

 

[Ms Griffin]

So, do you think now that your parents should name your child? As far as I'm concerned, I (and my husband) will be the ones choosing the names of our children.

Secondly...If i had a baby me and my husband are the first people who are going to name our baby because it our child, my family can give their opinion on what to name our child but its down to both of us to name the child...

Wow, I didn't know we have Royals among the posters.

Should the King have said instead, "Well, they've chosen to name her Leonor. They seem to like the name. But my wife, the Queen and I hate the name."

I think what Stefanie meant was that it sounded more passive aggressive and that he instead could have said something along the lines of "It's a lovely name, don't you think. We like it very much." And not just later on "Yeah, it's historical, pretty, ..." Do you know what I try to say?





And I know it's somewhat off-topic, but considering some posters apparently don't know what they are talking about I guess I shouldn't let it pass this time and speak up: Thinness. Well, I'm one of those people who can eat and eat and eat and eat and still don't put any weight on, though the other way it is possible. And yes, I still look healthy. BUT, whenever I didn't take care during finals I lost weight. When I then came home to my parents or went to my grandma they would upon seeing me ask: "Are you okay? Everything alright? You look so thin!" And they were probably right that I did not look healthy thin, but ill. And so does Letizia. To say she was always thin may not be wrong, but to continue saying she looks like she always does is wrong. She doesn't. I speak from experience.

 

[Alexandria]

I think what Stefanie meant was that it sounded more passive aggressive and that he instead could have said something along the lines of "It's a lovely name, don't you think. We like it very much." And not just later on "Yeah, it's historical, pretty, ..." Do you know what I try to say?

I know that the King has had many decades in front of the public eye and has spoken publicly informally and formally on many occasions. However, the moment outside of the hospital must've been an emotional one -- he had just seen his newest grandchild, a grandchild who may be the head of the monarchy one day, and I can see that he may not have been at his most eloquent or thought to phrase things in a way he might otherwise have.

And I know it's somewhat off-topic, but considering some posters apparently don't know what they are talking about I guess I shouldn't let it pass this time and speak up: Thinness. Well, I'm one of those people who can eat and eat and eat and eat and still don't put any weight on, though the other way it is possible. And yes, I still look healthy. BUT, whenever I didn't take care during finals I lost weight. When I then came home to my parents or went to my grandma they would upon seeing me ask: "Are you okay? Everything alright? You look so thin!" And they were probably right that I did not look healthy thin, but ill. And so does Letizia. To say she was always thin may not be wrong, but to continue saying she looks like she always does is wrong. She doesn't. I speak from experience.

I agree with you Ms Griffin. To me, constantly bringing up Letizia's weight without having seen her medical records, but based on pictures or ideas that the camera adds 10 pounds, so then Letizia must really be emancipated, is like beating a dead horse over and over again. Some people have naturally fast metabolisms, just as some people have naturally slow metabolisms. So that on the one hand no matter how much you eat, you just can't put on weight, and on the other hand, no matter how little you eat or how much you exercise, it is very hard or takes longer for the weight to come off.

I am sure that the Spanish royal court wouldn't put Letizia in jeopardy. If they (or the Princess' doctors) felt that her weight were an issue, they would pull her from her rigorous schedule, just as Crown Princess Masako was pulled from her schedule when her stress was diagnosed.

Let's not continue round and round about Letizia's thinness, especially since even if some of us are doctors, we aren't Letizia's doctors, and so none of us can accurately diagnose Letizia as being sick.

 

[lisamaria]

Wow, I was actually under the impression that things said about Mary on some other forum were mean... I agree, Letizia is on the skinny-ish side, but I don't really think that it has anything to do with her abilities. She is very accomplished and very sophisticated, if yet quite a bit reserved. But she does seem to have a very good relationship with Queen Sofia, and with her husband. I think she might define her role a little better, take a little more active stand on things and show a little more colour, but I don't see any real problem in her.
And I just love the name Leonor - shows a good judgement of Letizia and Felipe to give their child one sensible name instead of 13 that all sound like out of an operetta... Or maybe that's just me.

 

[Alexandria]

I agree, Letizia is on the skinny-ish side, but I don't really think that it has anything to do with her abilities.

I agree lisamaria; I think some individuals who dislike Letizia (which is fine as far as I am concerned) are using her weight as a reason to dislike her or find fault with her, which is wrong. You can dislike Letizia as much as you want, but a better reason than how much she weights is warranted. If you think she doesn't do enough royal duties or her education isn't good enough, then those are perfectly good reasons. But to not like her because of her weight is like saying you don't like someone because they are too tall.

 

[Roxsteve]

Then this thread should be called "things you most admire about Letizia." She seems to be so perfect that there appears to be no comparison. If someone says she is thin, then 10 people say there is nothing wrong with being thin, or married, or divorced. It is okay to disagree. Not everyone likes her and the forum is open, IMO, to express your thougths...good and bad ones. Let's not be so judgmental!!!