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While the story of Letizia Ortiz can perfectly compare with a fairy tale (plebeian knows prince, marry, live happy and eat partridges), the truth is that the path of royalty has not been easy for her. Although she is firm from the hand of her husband, King Felipe, and her two daughters, the princesses Leonor and Sofia; The Queen Consort of Spain has faced quite hard situations that perhaps explain the reason for some of her most controversial and debated by the media decisions. Here we tell you seven of its toughest moments.

1. His first marriage failed

When he studied baccalaureate at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute in Madrid, Letizia met the professor of literature Alonso Guerrero Pérez. Although much of this part of its history is not known, it is said that both began a relationship when she was just 16 years old while he had 24. This courtship lasted a good time and married in 1998, when she was going to turn 26. However, the marriage did not feel good to this couple that according to the rumors it already consisted of ten long years of relationship. The constant discussions began and Letizia began to focus more on her career as a journalist. Just a year later, in 1999, they divorced.

2.They to give up his career

A year after his divorce, the Madrid press association awarded Letizia the Lara Prize for being the most outstanding 30 -year journalist. And is that his professional facet was impeccable; Well, he worked for EFE, Bloomberg TV, CNN+ and Spanish Television (TVE). But in 2002, during the course of a dinner, Letizia met the then Prince of Asturias (Felipe) and his life turned. The relationship remained secret for a while, but in 2003 they surprised the public announcing their commitment. Then, Letizia had to make one of the most difficult decisions of her life: renouncing her successful career, because it would be incompatible with her new role as a member of royalty.

3. His entrance to royalty was not easy

Because of her plebeian and divorced status, not everyone saw with good eyes the relationship of Letizia with Felipe, so the journalist found a strong resistance of both the most traditionalist public and her new political family. After marrying on May 22, 2004, Letizia spent difficult times to get used to the real protocol and the attention of the media at the same time. He also had strong disagreements with his in -laws, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía, who apparently expected her to be a more "malleable" person. With their sisters -in -law, the Infantas Elena and Cristina, did not get along. In fact, it was not until 2007 (three years after the wedding) when the Royal House granted him and assigned the official functions as Princess of Asturias.

4. A cold and calculator princess

Since at the beginning they criticized her for not following the protocol, little by little Letizia was perfecting her behavior. From that affable and close journalist to the public became a straight, strict woman and lover of the rules, something that shows both in her attitude and in her clothing, which is now impeccable. However, this change brought criticism that said that the now queen is a cold and calculating person, obsessed with the perfection and privacy of her family (it is enough to remember her disagreement with Mrs. Sofía at the Easter Mass of 2018 when she wanted to take a photo with her granddaughters). While in recent years his attitude has softened, for many it is still too stoic.

5. His sister took his life

In 2007, when she was six -month pregnant with her second daughter (Princess Sofia) Letizia lived the unimaginable: her younger sister (Érika, 31), died of cardiorespiratory arrest caused by an overdose of pills. This was a hard blow to her, because they were very close. Even so, it is said that Letizia has come to blame her death, because she believes that all the media attention to her family added weight to the depression that Erika lived at that time. Because at that time she had separated from her husband, Antonio Vigo, with whom she had a daughter. Letizia's images at the funeral are heartbreaking, because on several occasions Felipe even had to sustain her. For some experts in royalty, the now queen has not yet overcome this loss.

6. Plasma in books

Letizia and me It is a book published in 2023 by a journalist named Jaime Peñafiel in which he interviews Jaime del Burgo, a man who was married to the other sister of Letizia, Telma, from 2012 to 2014, and who said that she also maintained a relationship with the queen both before she met Felipe, as during her marriage.

In 2024, Peñafiel published another book, The silences of Letizia , in which he interviewed Del Burgo. He declared for Peñafiel: "Letizia had even thought about leaving her husband and fleeing with him." Since neither publications has provided evidence of such statements, an important part of the public considers that it is a discredit campaign orchestrated by both men. Even so, sources close to Letizia claim that it has been a hard blow for her to have to listen to those accusations.

7. Give the face in difficult times

In 2004, just two months before his wedding with Felipe, Letizia had to face his first state funeral, the officer for the victims of the attacks of March 11, a terrorist attack with four trains in Madrid in which 192 people died. Letizia could not contain tears, as other royalty members did.

Where it was also quite affected was at the funeral of the 79 victims of the Angrois rail accident in Santiago de Compostela, in 2013. More recently, Letizia and Felipe had to face the fury of the residents of Paiporta, in Valencia, after the passage of the Dana that left more than 200 dead.

When they arrived accompanied by the president of the Government of Spain Pedro Sánchez and the Valencian regional president, Carlos Mazón, were received based on shouting by calling them “murderers”, several insults and even mud balls thrown against them. This was undoubtedly a very hard situation for Queen Letizia, always committed to the causes of the Spanish people.