We are much more used to evoking Queen Letizia of Spain in subjects around her always controlled appearances. The monarch is one of the crowned heads that attracts attention. On June 7, the wife of Felipe VI made a new flawless performance in a magnificent long white dress in lace and without sleeves from the Sfera brand. But this time, she finds herself the subject of an inglorious portrait. It’s not her outfits that make people talk, but his supposed addiction to cosmetic surgery.
For a few days, Los Borbones, a real familya corrosive documentary by journalist Ana Pastor and screenwriter Aitor Gabilondo, offered on the ATRESplayer platform, does not do the Spanish crown any good. In the fourth episode of this behind-the-scenes series at the Zarzuela Palace, Letizia from Spain is the main character. And the portrait that is painted for her is none other than that of a woman unable to do without cosmetic surgery. Nose surgery, chin alignment, eyelid lift, botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid injections… the list is long.
haughty, ambitious and characterful
As she celebrates her 50th birthday on September 15, Leonor and Sofía’s mother takes it for her rank. “This aesthetic Stations of the Cross is a reaction to its media overexposure“, analyzes Carmen Enriquez, speaker and former specialist in the monarchy on TVE. Spanish channel on which Letizia Ortiz worked before she became queen. The monarch is also described there with not very bright qualifiers, “haughty, ambitious and characterful“, we learn. Letizia of Spain would therefore have had no difficulty in imposing herself within the royal family, and this even if she may have displeased Juan Carlos and Sophie of Greece.
