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Crown princesses watchers: Déjeuner entre filles Ã* Barcelone Cristina with Letizia and Maxima at lunch in Barcelona
How many times does this issue has to come around to haunt Letizia? She didn't interrupted Felipe, he interrupted her!
The video, 3:25 - This is the translation in English is this:
YouTube - Petición de Mano
The question was directed at her, she was replying and he interrupted her, not the other way around.
Letizia was well within her right to kindly request to be able to finish what she was saying. Felipe was clearly in the wrong. It has nothing to do with education or being a prince. I am very happy she stood her ground.I thnk she looked very bad saying that to the Prince. First of all, because a person with education doesn't do that, second Felipe is a Prince and the future King of Spain, she was a commoner then. Third: now that Letizia is Prince Felipe's wife she is able to ask him for silence always they are in private.
I am sorry, but I still think is not polite what she did, period.
Brucantuosi, would you consider it OK if Felipe had been asked a question, Letizia had interrupted while he was answering, and Felipe had then asked to finish what he was saying? Would you say that Felipe was impolite in requesting to finish his sentence, or would you consider Letizia to be rude under this scenario also?
Article on Queen Sofia and the Infantas out and about. It also picks up on the inavoidable topic that the Infantas and Asturias seem to avoid each other...
i agree, although the cathedral was a lovely location, the interaction with people (requested by zarzuela demonstrate that the SRF is fearless?), especially the tourist group, was a bit much almost scary, there is a picture where letizia seems concerned about the approach what i can fully understand.In the last days, already they have exposed and risked enough, she, her husband and her daughters.
I do not know if the Infantas want to avoid the Prince, Letizia, or the exhibition that to be near them provokes. But I believe that they are not behaving well, forgetting which are their commitments and responsibilities as Infantas, but enjoying the privileges. It is supposed that the Infantas are adult and responsible women, and to blame Letizia of their decisions is absurd enough.
Many grandparents I know have an easier time bonding with their daughters children, or being more at ease with them, unless the sons have the grandchildren first, so the relationship is already established by the time the daughters children come along. It could be the reason that the king seems more at ease with his daughters kids, than his son's.King Juan Carlos love his grandsons since they always, seeing most of pictures I think really he prefers his grandsons to his granddaughters.
I never saw a picture of the King being close to Felipe's little girls.
( I remember the Easter pictures...)
I wonder if this is the real reason that Cristina and family are moving to Washington, D.C. - a P.R. move so that the two women aren't seen together. It makes me very sad that the Spanish Royals can't put on a more united front.
And just as Felipe (and his family?) left Majorca for business the Infantas return. Whether this is just the way things are scheduled or there is a rift in private that will only be concealed on official occasions I don't know but the fact that we hardly see the Asturias family and the Infantas interact on "private" occasions will fuel these rumours. In the beginning everybody, except for the King but especially Queen Sofia and the Infantas to a degree, has been very supportive of Letizia's integration but these days the support seems to have fizzled out or is non-existent.
Considering they were attending a funeral for victims of a terrorist attack it would hardly have been appropriate for them to indulge in over the top displays of affection.http://www.vanitatis.com/noticias/reina-infantas-compras-tranquilas-palma-eta-20090811.html
Article on Queen Sofia and the Infantas out and about. It also picks up on the inavoidable topic that the Infantas and Asturias seem to avoid each other, coincidence or on purpose, the Infantas left the island as soon as the Asturias family arrived - after they had to meet on the occasion of the funeral. Seems official events are the only occasions they meet at all, and even there greeting each other was far from cordial:
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa78/ahtikavalentine/610x6-1.jpg
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Considering they were attending a funeral for victims of a terrorist attack it would hardly have been appropriate for them to indulge in over the top displays of affection.
I can just imagine how much criticism Letizia would receive on this board if she had been pictured smiling or laughing with Cristina.
Considering they were attending a funeral for victims of a terrorist attack it would hardly have been appropriate for them to indulge in over the top displays of affection.
I can just imagine how much criticism Letizia would receive on this board if she had been pictured smiling or laughing with Cristina.
Not sure if any of the readers saw the article in the Sunday Times (30 Aug) about the strained relationship between the Infantas and the Crown Princess. The article refers to a strained relationship, with few words exchanged between. It was suggested in the article that the Queen is a supporter of the Crown Princess, if nothing else, as a way of keeping intact her relationship with Felipe.
Not sure if any of the readers saw the article in the Sunday Times (30 Aug) about the strained relationship between the Infantas and the Crown Princess. The article refers to a strained relationship, with few words exchanged between. It was suggested in the article that the Queen is a supporter of the Crown Princess, if nothing else, as a way of keeping intact her relationship with Felipe.
I'm starting to think that the problem they are having, if there is one, is that by marrying, Felipe has thrown the family relationships into a tailspin.
With their father's health problems and the advancing age of their parents and Felipe marrying later rather than sooner, they have had to put Letizia on the fast track to the head of the family line. She didn't have the luxury years to find her natural place in their family. The infantas may feel shoved to the side.
They have grown up knowing how their lives were going to pan out but it wasn't until Felipe married that everyone's "jobs" changed in degrees of importance. That must be tough to deal with.
Letizia is now in the position of having a husband who is going to be king and a daughter who will someday be queen and the pressure to succeed at this must be incredible.
In which section can this be found muriel? Thanks, in advance.
I agree. There is always a certain amount of jealousy in all families [rich or poor, royal or non-royal]. It is just a fact of life. Some people feel slighted by a new family member taking the center of attention away from them. Others resent their parents giving the new family member love [which prior was theirs alone] It happens all the time. Some husbands even get that way when their wives show their new borns unconditional love as they feel it is taking some time and love away fom them. It just has to run it course. In the end, the jealous person will never win. They just have to get over it and realize that the world and their family was not created just for them. Its a control thing. Actually I have seen this more in average families than in the wealthy.The article was short on details, but you could be right. This is often the situation in many a wealthy and prominent family (and more so in the case of a royal family) where the birth princesses are going to feel left out when the crown prince marries, and the new crown princess takes on the limelight.