Just when it has been 20 years since their official presentation as betrothed, on November 6, 2003, Kings Felipe and Letícia begin today a state trip to Denmark, the first country they officially went to as newlyweds on the occasion of their wedding of Crown Princes Frederic and Maria.
The life of Felipe and Letícia 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", which pronounced the promise, when her boyfriend interrupted her in the middle of an answer to journalists in which Letícia tried to explain that she would follow "the priceless example of Queen Sofia".
That day, at the palace of El Pardo, the same scene where last Tuesday the celebration of Princess Elionor's 18th birthday took place, the queen debuted a white pantsuit that she had bought a few days earlier at the Giorgio Armani store, in Madrid Interestingly, his daughter Eleonor also wore a pantsuit of the same color to swear the Constitution.
If the dress of her hand request set a trend, the red chiffon dress, designed and made by Lorenzo Caprile, which Letícia wore to Copenhagen, to go to the wedding of the crown princes Frederic and Maria, which had the biggest impact place on May 14, a week before the royal wedding in Madrid. The debut of the then fiancée of Prince Philip in front of European royalty could not be more shocking. Although she was not yet able to wear the family tiaras, as other princesses and queens already married or in their infancy did, Letícia wore a set of earrings and brooches of brilliants and rubies that had belonged to the Countess of Barcelona .
The years passed, and on April 15, 2015, the Kings went to Denmark to attend the 75th birthday celebrations of Queen Margaret, who, as the sister of Queen Anne Maria of Greece, shares kinship with the family Spanish royal That time, Leticia, wearing a long white dress with black embroidery and Manila shawl, designed by Felipe Varela, used for the first time the headband, called Princesa, which she received in 2009, as a gift, I don't know she knows very well whether from the Prince or directly from the Ansorena jeweller, who was the artist, on the occasion of the fifth wedding anniversary. It was the first and last occasion in which Letícia used that diadem in what was her first meeting as queen with the rest of the royal houses of Europe.
Tonight, at the gala dinner that Queen Margarida will offer to the Kings, on the occasion of the State trip, at Christianborg Palace, we will see Letícia again with a diadem. Tomorrow it will be the Kings who will compliment the Danish sovereign with a dinner at the Carlsberg museum, after inaugurating, with Princes Frederic and Maria, an exhibition commemorating the centenary of Sorolla. The royal visit will last until Wednesday.
