Sometimes it’s time to take the royal jewelry box for a walk and show off decorations, other times it’s time to put on some wellies and make your way through the mud. The job of reigning, which was taught to Felipe VI from the cradle and which Letizia had to learn that he was not born in a palace, entails contrasts that have been very palpable these days.
The recent images of mourning, pain and mud that involved the Kings in the scenarios that marked the tragedy of the passage of the DANA have come to coincide with the official presentation of the magnificent portraits that Annie Leibovitz has made of the monarchs coinciding with their 10 years of reign.
They are majestic paintings of large proportions made with a refined technique that brings us closer to painting than to photography, and that show the magnificence of the Royal Palace and they enhance the institutional figure of the Kings gala dresses
All the details were taken care of to the maximum. King Felipe VI posed with the great uniform of captain general of the Army, the Golden Fleece and the band of the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos III. Queen Letizia with a spectacular black suit and a red cape by Balenciaga, museum pieces; She does not wear a tiara, an option that was discarded, but she wears a spectacular diamond necklace and earrings that belonged to Queen Victoria Eugenia. Its most personal touch is the gold ring from which it is barely separated, which is engraved with the maxim “Love moves everything”. Some photos for history.