Friday 29 May 2015

Letizia says thank you

As she ended her four day visit to Honduras and El Salvador to see first hand projects involving co-operation from Spain, Queen Letizia was full of thanks. She expressed her gratitude to her hosts, to those she had met and to those she had seen working on major projects to help thousands of people. And she passed on the good wishes of her husband, King Felipe, as well. And when she steps off the plane in Madrid she may well be getting some thanks of her own for her first major overseas solo tour as a queen has been a success.


Queen Letizia of Spain with the President and First Lady of El Salvador at a lunch they gave in her honour as she ended her visit to their country
(photo @sanchezceren Twitter)

The final day of the visit had seen Letizia hold a meeting with people from around the world who are working on co-operation projects in El Salvador before heading off to the Cultural Centre of Spain in the country's capital, San Salvador, where she heard about projects based in the arts which aim to stamp out violence and poverty.

 

 The last stop of her tour was a lunch at the President's official residence given in her honour by President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and his wife, Margarita Villalta. And it was there that Letizia said thank you as well as expressing the desire of her fellow countrypeople to keep on working on projects with those in El Salvador to help improve conditions for those who need support.



Then it was off to the airport for a final farewell before the Queen of Spain headed home with happy memories and safe in the knowledge that this major event in her career as a consort has gone off rather well indeed. In the past, Letizia's critics have asked why she didn't take on more foreign trips or more work on her own. She has shown in the past week that overseas trips and solo tours are no bother to her at all. As her husband approaches the first anniversary of his accession, his consort is showing that her royal past is morphing into a very queenly future.

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