Just as 20 years have passed since their official presentation as fiancés, on November 6, 2003, King Felipe and Queen Letizia begin a state trip to Denmark this Monday, the first country they officially went to as bride and groom on the occasion of their wedding. the crown princes Frederick and Mary.
The life of Felipe and Letizia changed on November 1, 2003, when the marriage engagement of the then Prince of Asturias was announced, but for the history of their relationship, and also of the monarchy, the phrase “let me finish” will remain engraved, which the fiancée said when her boyfriend interrupted her in the middle of a response to journalists in which Letizia tried to explain that she would follow “the priceless example of Queen Sofia.”
That day, at the Pardo palace, the same setting where the celebration of Princess Leonor's 18th birthday took place last Tuesday, the Queen debuted a white pantsuit that she had bought a few days before at the Giorgio Armani store, in Madrid. Curiously, her daughter Leonor also wore a pantsuit of the same color to swear in the Constitution.
If her proposal suit set a trend, the red chiffon dress, designed and made by Lorenzo Caprile, that Letizia wore in Copenhagen to attend the wedding of the crown princes Federico and María, which took place on December 14, was even more impressive. May, a week before the royal wedding in Madrid. The debut of Prince Philip's then fiancée before European royalty could not have been more shocking. Although she was not yet able to wear the family tiaras, as other married or cradle princesses and queens did, Letizia wore a set of diamond and ruby earrings and brooches that had belonged to the Countess of Barcelona.
Years passed and on April 15, 2015, the Kings traveled to Denmark to attend the celebrations for the 75th birthday of Queen Margaret, who, as the sister of Queen Anne Mary of Greece, shares a relationship with the royal family. Spanish. On that occasion, Letizia, wearing a long white dress with black embroidery and a Manila shawl, designed by Felipe Varela, used for the first time the tiara, called Princess, which she received in 2009 as a gift; it is not known very well if it was from that time. prince or directly from the Ansorena jewelry store, which was its creator, on the occasion of the fifth wedding anniversary. It was the first and last time that Letizia wore that tiara and she did so in what was her first meeting as Queen with the rest of the royal houses of Europe.
This Monday night, at the gala dinner that Queen Margaret will offer to the Kings, on the occasion of the state trip, at Christianborg Palace, we will see Letizia with a tiara again. Tomorrow it will be the Kings who will entertain the Danish sovereign with a dinner at the Carlsberg Museum, after inaugurating, together with Princes Federico and María, a commemorative exhibition of Sorolla's centenary. The royal visit will last until Wednesday.
