Queen Drama: what happened between Spanish Queen Letizia & Queen Sofia?
April 5, 2018
On Monday, I covered the photos of the Spanish royals attending Easter Mass in Mallorca. I thought the story was going to be “Queen Letizia wore trousers with buttons down the leg,” because I love talking about fashion and buttons and royals. But as it turns out, the Spanish royals’ happy-family church photo-op got DARK. Very dark. This isn’t “girl drama.” It’s not even lady-drama. It’s full-on QUEEN DRAMA. You see, something weird happened when former queen-regent Queen Sofia tried to pose for a few photos with her granddaughters, Princess Leonor and Princess Sofia. Queen Letizia walks in between her mother-in-law and the cameras and what happened next was very strange. I’m including two videos, of varying quality:
What I like here is that King Felipe was THERE, right away, in real time. He didn’t hang back at all. Almost as if this was a normal thing for him, physically and emotionally getting in between his wife and his mother. Almost as if he’s had a lot of practice. As for what the beef was about… I can’t figure out if Letizia knowingly walked in between the cameras and her mother-in-law. At first, I thought she didn’t realize that Sofia was trying to pose with the girls, and Letizia was just walking there to fuss with her daughter’s hair. But after viewing it a few times, I think Letizia knew what she was doing. I think this was some kind of argument about how Sofia treats her granddaughters, or how Letizia is raising them, or something like that. I also think it’s notable that Queen Sofia seemed to be the one who got MAD very quickly.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
