Duke, I believe that very you are mistaken, and because I know as works the Spanish society. We are a society extends, with different opinions.
To criticize Letizia for being plebeian, it is simply an excuse. Any person who was occupying the position of Princess of Asturias, was going to be a person criticized, because she would be a person foreign to the Royal Family who would pass to occupy a situation of privilege.
With any woman, someone would have found something that to criticize. Her past, her nationality, her religion, her education, her friends, her family, her attitude, her way of dressing, her personality...
To Queen Sofia did not help to be Princess, helped her to be a discreet woman, capable of realizing a serious work, and with it the respect of the Spanish to be gained. When the Queen Sofia came to Spain, she was only a foreign princess, who in addition had another religion. Later with the decision not to have court, and of not doing friendship with certain ladies of the Spanish aristocracy who were approaching her for interest ... the hatred was earned of many of them. It is not a chance, that both only faithful friends who have been always to the side of the Queen have been her sister Irene and her cousin Tatiana. For a long time the Queen Sofia was considered to be a "cold" woman, for some it was positive, a Queen had to be cold like is Queen Elisabeth II, but for great others it had a negative connotation... this image of coldness only has lost it with the arrival of her grandchildren.
It is evident that with the arrival of the Princess of Asturias, has opened a new paragraph in the treatment of the press and the public opinion ... or probably not ... the previous girlfriends of the Prince were treated also harshly... So the one that has turned into his wife has not escaped to these assaults either.
Neither it is a secret that in the last years the press is losing the limits, every time they do their work with fewer seriousness ... and it concerns all kinds of news and prominent figures, and not only the Royal Family ... the public opinion is getting used to this irresponsibility and to frivolous this one of seeing the life... In Spain every time there are fewer programs of serious information, and more programs of gossip and of yellow press ... the people already have enough with their own problems, they prefer seeing the miseries of powerful, rich and famous ... that the miseries of the world.
Over this cloud of levity ... ultimately, which the people are going to value is that the Princes are persons who realize their work responsibly and responsibility, and that are capable of being near their citizens when they it must be. The Princes, are the inheritors, and it forces them to occupy a secondary place after the Kings. It is not a secret that the Prince goes to abide a difficult work in succeed his father .. probably for it, every time it is a more evident the process of slow transition than is producing. The prince every time has more responsibilities, and when it happens things like the terrorist assault the military men of the Lebanon, the Prince can occupy his place.
The public opinion in Spain is in the habit of being contradictory, we like to be critics, and are in the habit of criticizing to the power. But ultimately we are responsible, and the public opinion always ends up by trusting that the Royal Family solves what the politicians do not solve ... example of it is that for all the surveys always are valued over the politicians. We are not a deeply monarchic country, but we are practical.