20 thoughts on “Queen Letizia supports Felipe at CSIC, speaks at Conference on Volunteering”

1. I really like the peep-toe heels from her 2012 wearing of the charcoal grey dress. When she wears pants, it emphasizes her size – dang, she’s tiny! She seems like a small woman all over.

   I live in Europe and I’m always amazed by the tiny-ness of so many women here (France and Spain). Not just talking body weight, but their frame, shoulders, just so small. I can be skinny, but my Russo-German forebears have dictated that I will never be “small” lol

2. Thanks KMR for this post on my new favorite royal. While I really liked the grey dress, I wear a lot of grey, I agree that Leti does look even more wonderful in red. What I especially like is how poised and comfortable she looks when going about her queenly duties, giving speeches and meeting the public. When Kate first started attending royal engagements she looked pretty comfortable but as time has gone on she has looked less so. I wonder if the attention has gotten to her and has made her self concisous or if someone in the family has been making digs at her. Either way I really hope that some day she can get back her self confidence, stand up straight, un clasp her hands and be more comfortable.

   Thanks again KMR, for taking time out of your holiday to bring us two great posts!

   1. Kate is an odd cookie to me. She seemed more confident in 2011, during her first year of marriage/royal life, than she does now, during her third year of marriage/royal life. So weird. Some people have said she started to become self conscious when she read people’s negative comments online sometime in 2012. Don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, she’s not been making any changes to fix it.

      1. Sure haven’t done nothing. Like i heard someone said she said in her engagement interview she don’t care about what other people say about her. Evidently she wore the same dress the third time.
         Queen Letizia looked nice in red n gray.

3. As you know, I’m not a giant fan of this woman. I’ve got nothing against her at all and I do think she’s much more polished and professional than Kate. My personal favorite is Maxima of the Netherlands; she’s got personality. Some questionable fashion choices; no doubt, but I find her interesting to read about.

   But this is a serious question about Letizia. I read all the comments about how Kate has an eating disorder because she’s so thin. Do people say that about this woman? Because to me she looks as thin as, or thinner than, Kate. I don’t know much about Letizia as is painfully obvious about my posts, and I’m not here to spread negativity about her. I don’t know much and so I ask questions based on my observations. If I turn out to have the wrong idea I’ll be happy to admit it!

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   2. I agree. She is very thin! Painfully thin.
      She is gorgeous, though. The red jacket. The red lipstick! Very striking.
      I think so many women in the public eye are pressured to be thin, thin, thin.
      Bring back the days of the more curvy woman. Beautiful, feminine and real.

      1. Curvy is not the only acceptable body shape. Thin women are real too. Skinny-shaming does nothing to help the self-esteems of people.

         This is coming from a curvy woman.

      2. I agree with both of you guys. I think the pressure to be thin is no good for a person’s self esteem, and I suspect not all of it is outside pressure. When you’re photographed all the time every where you go, I imagine you see every single flaw, fat roll, bad angle and magnify it. I would absolutely hate it.

         And Stephanie, I agree with you too. I used to be one of those people who couldn’t gain weight if her life depended on it. Now, not so much. I yearn for those days! 🙂

   3. When I saw the photos of Leti in pants, I was surprised at how thin her legs looked. I was going to mention it in my post – I even wrote a paragraph about it – but I wasn’t sure if it was just something about those pants that made her legs look so thin, or if she really is that thin. Because I didn’t notice it when she wore a dress. That’s why I removed the paragraph. I know people talk about Kate’s weight all the time, so to be fair we should bring up other people’s weight when they look too thin. And yes, in those pants, Leti does look super thin. Like, same thigh gap as Kate in her skinny jeans.

      I’ll look into Maxima if you’d like. I don’t know much about her except she has some awesome jewelry.

      1. No, don’t worry about that KMR. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who looked at that pants photo and wondered though. Perhaps Letizia is like me and can’t gain weight either, although that stopped for me when I hit 30. I would think a couple of children would do it too, but I know everyone’s lucky and maybe that’s her body. But she looks awfully thin to me, although I’ve got to say I think she’d get my vote as best dressed royal. She always looks great.

         1. Rumor was she used to wear pants (and continues to wear them a lot) because her legs are her least favorite feature. Maybe she is self-conscious about being so slight.

   4. Middleton has a larger bone structure and is deliberately underweight. Letizia has always been this tiny, see photos of her before she met Felipe. She’s small boned but also curvy. Her husband says she eats as much as he does but burns it all off working. All the women in her family are little like this, not unnaturally skinny, just with very small bone structure. Add that to a husband who is 6’5″ or 6’6′ and she’s going to look little.

4. I think this woman pretty much has it all going on. She is beautiful, stylish, exudes energy, and appears to have solid relationship with her husband. The two of them are clearly working hard to bring up the image if the Spanish RF.

   Thanks for the great post, KMR.

5. Great article, thank you KMR ! For my part, I really like both outfits, and I love when Letizia wears bright red lipstick. I think it’s so feminin and hot and elegant ! But when I try on me, it lokks like a little girl who would have taken her mother’s makeup !!!
   I really, really like Letizia and think shés a wonderful queen. But please don’t forget that she married the heir to the throne, so she had immediatly a lot to do, and she has now 10 years of royal life behind her. I’m not sure it’s fair to compare…

   1. Lol, if I wore bright lipstick, I’d look like a clown.

      It’s not really fair to compare Kate to other royal women who have been married a lot longer then her and also married the heirs to their respective thrones. Kate would naturally have less to do and be worse at it. The problem with Kate is, when compared to herself, she hasn’t shown much growth. She just needs to get out their, hire a speech coach, and work hard when she does what appearances she does. Show some real growth in her position.

      1. Middleton had a full 10 years to prepare. The continual excuses made for this 32-year-old drive me crazy.

6. (Compare with Kate, I mean)

7. Thankis for reporting on a working Royal! We don’t see her dropping out of events or leaving early!

8. She’s cute

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