Eleven informal shots that tell the story of a united and peaceful family: like this Felipe VI and Letizia of Spain they are celebrating their first 20 years of marriage, celebrated on 22 May 2004. The shots, taken in the gardens of the royal palace, were released a few days in advance and portray the couple alone and in the company of their two daughters, Leonor, 18 years old, and Sofia17.
The wedding of the then Prince of Asturias with the former journalist Letizia Ortiz was a day eagerly awaited by the Spaniards, in 25 million followed the live television broadcast from the Almudena cathedral, where the bride had surprised everyone with a decidedly modern dress compared to tradition, created by the stylist Manuel Pertegaz. She was determined and with a firm voice at the moment of “yes”, he was visibly moved and made everyone dream. It was rumored that she would be the one to hold the reins of the union, and today this is still the case, even if for what detractors at the time called the “plebeian”, including her mother-in-law Sofia, it certainly wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows .
Letizia and Felipe on their wedding day.
Lalo Yasky
Queen Letizia has experienced food problems, she was intolerant of the rules and often at odds with her husband, spotted without faith an infinite number of times and just as many times without him: once she even left him on holiday in the Balearics with the girls to go back to Madrid alone. None of this seems to afflict the couple today, since she ascended the throne in 2014 has worked to bring back the image of a monarchy marked by countless scandals, even if from time to time rumors of divorce return to hover over the couple.
