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Scandal Rocks the Spanish Royal Family
30Dec By The MillerNo Comments
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Scandal Rocks the Spanish Royal Family

Prince Felipe of Asturias Gets Married Seven years before Prince William married Kate Middleton, another photogenic bride of modest breeding created the model of the very modern princess. It was the spring of 2004, and Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano was on the arm of the dashing Prince Felipe of Asturias, a member of the 750-year-old Bourbon dynasty and heir to the throne of Spain.By marrying Letizia, Felipe was putting to bed years of gossip and speculation. The tanned former Olympic yachtsman, who was 36, had been linked to a string of head-­turners, including a Norwegian model, a Liechtensteiner princess, and American model turned socialite Gigi Howard. Like Kate Middle­ton, ­Letizia, then 31, was notable for being a “commoner,” the middle-class daughter of a journalist and a nurse. Unlike ...
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Kate Middleton’s royal scandal
28Dec By The MillerNo Comments
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Kate Middleton’s royal scandal

We needed a new ***gate: Kategate Kategate, the royal scandal about the Princess of Wales’s disappearance from public view  For the first time in recent memory, however, something odd has happened: The coverups and fumbles have become bigger than the stories themselves. The entire thing is now called “Kategate.” The longer Kategate goes, the less in control the royal family seems.For a family and institution that’s been known to operate like an impossibly efficient machine, Kategate becoming an international news story can’t help but feel like a failure on multiple fronts. So what happened to that machine? Why does this scandal feel so big? And why do we care so much? Without Queen Elizabeth One of the lasting legacies of Queen Elizabeth was that she was extremely good at her job. The sa...
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