Queen Letizia
Grandma Menchu (†) wanted to talk her out of marrying Felipe
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They have been married for 20 years now, but an explosive interview revealed: Menchu Álvarez del Valle, Queen Letizia’s grandmother, wanted to talk her granddaughter out of marrying Felipe.
Should Queen Letizia, 48, not marry King Felipe, 53, in May 2004? At least that’s what her grandmother Menchu Álvarez del Valle, †93, wanted. The journalist, who died on July 27, 2021, once caused a stir with an interview that was only published by the Spanish newspaper “OK Diario” after her death. What does her granddaughter say about that?
Queen Letizia’s grandmother on wedding: “Stop the nonsense!”
The interview with Letizia’s grandmother was conducted on December 7, 2020 at her home in Ribadesella and was published on Friday, July 30, 2021, more than half a year later and just a few days after her death. Your statements are explosive. Although Menchu was very proud of her granddaughter, she had great reservations about marrying the then prince. In the interview she remembered a conversation with Letizia. The then successful journalist told her grandmother that she had fallen in love with Felipe and was thinking about getting married.
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“When she told me she wanted to get married, I said to her, ‘Listen, you’ve got yours [erfolgreichen] “Profession,” Menchu begins. “She had her apartment, her car, her good salary. And she did the star news program with Alfredo Urdaci on Spanish television,” she continued. Menchu became more and more direct and specific towards Letizia: “‘What do you think you’re getting yourself into? […] You are free, you can do whatever you want, are you sane? […] Stop the nonsense!'” Hard words, but they didn’t stop Letizia from holding on to her true love.
Menchu Álvarez del Valle: She was outraged by this until her death
After Menchu Álvarez del Valle dropped this bombshell, she tried to put her statements in the interview into perspective and said: “It’s not that I have anything against Felipe, quite the opposite. I admire him very much. […] [Aber] it will be very difficult for her [der spanischen Königsfamilie anzugehören]. And in fact she has had a very, very difficult time,” said Letizia’s grandmother – and was right with her statement.
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Menchu is said to have been very upset about one thing until the end: the difficulties that Letizia had to go through. About the fact that more and more was written about her clothes, her looks and her figure than about her work and what she said in her speeches.
Sources used: Dana Press, okdiario.com