First of all, as I see this is your first post, welcome to the board.
Now, on to business,
Scherezada said:
Where does all that certainty come from? Have you spoken to Letizia lately and she let you know that she's aware of her child's gender?
Scherezada said:
But if they dosn't care I care less. If they don't believe Spain deserve to know I don't beleive in their obsolete institution either so we are even.
Hey, just a moment, first things first. Spaniards will eventually know the gender of the baby, as all of us. Although Felipe and Letizia are the Crown Princely couple of a reigning monarchy, that doesn't mean they should share every single detail about their lives with the press.
This is THEIR child for crying out loud! It wasn't enough the whole year Letizia had to put up with the pressure of not coming back from her honeymoon with the heir in her womb?
Spanish law is another matter, I agree with you that it is obsolete and that the change wouldn't harm anyone. Prime Minister Zapatero has already shown his will to do so and Felipe has said that it shouldn't be done in a hurry because there's a whole generation in the middle.
People took this statement of his as he was sure the baby was a boy. I didn't, I took it as "C'mon, this baby won't be the heir right now, I'm the heir and my father is a healthy man, so we can wait longer for this change"
*I'm not saying that I agree with it, just that I interpreted it that way.
Scherezada said:
I don't beleive the son of the butcher has to be a butcher and I don't like to pay for their life style.
I didn't exactly get what you mean here, but as your profile says you're from the US, I don't see how you could be paying anything to the Spanish Royal Family...
Scherezada said:
About Letizia, well, is true that I don't like almost anything she does, must be that prepotent face she have all the time, who knows, maybe the fact she's not happy and her face reflects that, al least is not as happy as she used to be when journalist. Altought I did admire the independent Letizia, I don't respect the princess, an independent woman does not have their principles on sale.
Prepotent face? Are you aware that looks can be very deceiving? Take Infanta Elena as an example, the impression everyone has from her pictures is that she's snobbish and conceited but people who met her tells other tale, they say that she's very kind, goofy and easy going.
What makes you think that Letizia is unhappy? I think the other way around. Take a look at the pictures of her and Felipe in Mallorca this year, she looks anything but unhappy.
I believe you're saying she looks unhappy just because she's serious and concentrated when listening to conferences and speeches? I bet any money in the world that, if she smiled all the time and kept on talking during such events she would be hardly and endlessly criticized.
But I've already figured it out. With Letizia it's either love or leave, I've met very few members who stand in the middle...
Scherezada said:
Altought I did admire the independent Letizia, I don't respect the princess, an independent woman does not have their principles on sale.
Okay, now I'm completely confused here... Principles on sale? What the heck do you mean?
Letizia is still the same person, her former colleagues have said that endlessly, she's just dancing along the music! She married into one of the most fragile Royal Houses in Europe! She knows that the star of the show is Felipe and I admire her for being comfortable while in "second place", although we have much evidence around in these forums to support the opinion that Letizia brings much more attention to Felipe's engagements nowadays.
If she's not present, we get only 1/5 of pictures than when she and her "prepotent face" are present.
I'm saying something now that I've already said at least three times, but... Letizia has impressed - for her brains and not for her looks - every single politician or cultural icon she has met. Gabriel García Marquez was impressed by her and couldn't stop talking to her while the Princes were visiting Mexico, there was the Hungarian President and the authors present at the inauguration of the Cervantes Institute at Hungary who were surprised by Letizia's knowledge of Hungarian Literature.
She loves her husband, and that's why she's compromised to do what is best to him and to the Monarchy in Spain, to stay by his side, never claiming the spotlight.
Scherezada said:
"From unknown to wife in three days" marriage and I'm sure it won't last, not that I want that to happen but their marriage is based on infatuation, you can see that, and infatuation comes with expiration date.
Oh my God! Letizia and Felipe are no teenagers with hormons bubbling, they are grown adults with a past life, past experiences, who didn't need much to know that they were meant for each other.
Have you read Felipe's wedding speech? If not, I'll extract a quote of it for you, it's of the part of the speech dedicated to Letizia - one of the moderators here uses it as signature:
"Letizia, A little over a year ago we took the first steps that, with love and serenity, have brought us here. The time is neither long nor short, just enough for us to have mutually discovered, sincerely and clearly, that we want to spend the rest of our lives together."
True love doesn't respect timeframes, it just happens. It was like that with Iñaki and Cristina, and it is like that with Felipe and Letizia... Like it or not...