Much commented gesture of the princess of Asturias, who approached his mother and hugged her in his arms, as a sign of total support and unbreakable union. This hug, which occurred after the oath of the Constitution that Leonor pronounced for her 18th birthday on October 31, returns to the headlines again. This time to the French, specifically the French magazine Point of view.
“My mother, this heroine”, titles the publication in a report signed by Lilian Del Homme. The magazine analyzes the relationship between the consort and her eldest daughter through that hug and the context in which it occurs.
Mother and daughter were in the Royal Palace on October 31, historic due to the coming of age of the heiress, who had just sworn in the Magna Carta in the Congress of Deputies. In most of the photos captured at that ceremony and in the subsequent one from the palace, Doña Letizia appears with a very serious face. So serious, that it attracted attention in the media and on social networks. After having been decorated by the King with the Collar of Charles III, her highest civil decoration, and after having given her first speech as an adult, Leonor hugged her mother. Then, a smile appeared on the Queen's face.
The author of the report examines that moment, that connection between mother and daughter, which goes far beyond what they show us on camera. Far beyond loans of clothes or bags, there is a “discreet but direct influence” of the Queen over the Princess. The journalist also points out that Letizia is the heiress's “first advisor.”