Madrid2006 said:
What I said was: If somebody wroted something for example about Queen Silvia and it is not true, she makes investigationes. It is the same with Princess Caroline. What I mean: Many magazines, not even German, wrote gossip about the SRF. They wrote many lies about Letizia. May question is just: Why do say not do something against it???
In life, everyone has to pick and choose their battles. Daily there are false and elaborated stories written about public figures. For every 100 false stories written about Silvia/Caroline/Stephanie/Albert/Maxima or any celebrity or public person, they may sue for one of them. They certainly can't sue for every false or exaggerated story written about them -- they would spend all their time with their lawyers filing lawsuits and spending their money on such matters.
You may hear about the times when Caroline and Ernst have won a case against a paparazzi or when they have successfully sued against a publication, but what about the times they have sued and lost? Or what about the times they just didn't do anything at all?
Madrid2006 said:
Letizia as a former journalist knows the business.
What does Letizia's background in journalism have to do with this? Caroline/Maxima weren't journalists yet they sued publications. Knowing the business and suing people for defaming or slandering you are two separate matters that have nothing to do with each other.
Madrid2006 said:
The only thing they do was to say that she does not have anorexia. Do you understand what I mean?
I think that the
only reason the anorexia was addressed was because such comments were getting out of control. At their height they were being cited as the reason why Letizia couldn't get pregnant, and no doubt such comments would've placed stress on Letizia and made it harder if she
was trying to get pregnant at the time.
It was the public's stress and the Japanese media's overly-concentrated interest and pressure in Crown Princess Masako getting pregnant that resulted in her miscarriage. I'm sure that the Spanish royal court would've wanted that to happen to Letizia.
Madrid2006 said:
Felipe is a proud father. If German magazines write now that Leonor is very ill, why does he not do something against it? They have the power, they have the money. Normally everybody would fight for his family.
Looking at recent pictures of Leonor, even a layman without a medical can see how ridiculous such a story is. Look at all the stuff that was published because Leonor had a red mark on her nose at her baptism. Again, it's about picking your battles. Just because they have power and money doesn't mean that they should wield it for something so trivial as the German gossip press. Wouldn't it be better if they used such power and money to bring about change on a social or economical level for Spain?
Madrid2006 said:
Another example: Barbara Rey, a Spanish actress, always says in interviews that he had an relation with the most important man in the country. If I would be JC and this is not the trues I would send her to prison.
Does she explicitly say that the most important man in the country whom she had relations with is the King? "The most important man in the country" could be perceived as different men in Spain.
And what would be the point of sending her to prison? To me, sending someone to prison for something like that speaks of a power trip, and King Juan Carlos does not strike me as such a man. Afterall, after the death of Franco, the King could've taken Spain in a completely different direction and could've had much greater powers than he does now. Instead, he fought hard for democracy and fairness for Spain and Spaniards.
Madrid2006 said:
Does the SRF not care about what the people say and the press says?
Just because the family doesn't sue for every wrong word against them, doesn't mean they don't care. Maybe they just have better things to do -- like representing Spain.
Madrid2006 said:
If JC once would have made investigations against a magazines which writes about his affairs, I think then there would not be so many speculations.
That's not true. The media will continue to write and publish whatever sells them magazines. If the family sues for saying that Leonor is ill, then the media will write that Letizia is very sick. If the family sues for that then the media will write that one of Cristina's kids or Elena's kids is sick. Then where does it all stop? The press will keep inventing lies and the royal family will keep suing -- to what end and to serve what purpose?
Caroline and Ernst have sued the German press how many times now? And have we seen a stop to the lies or gossip printed about them or their family? No -- that is why they keep having to sue!
Madrid2006 said:
When "Oggi" showed some photos of him and Marta Gayá in the 90s, he did do nothing. That is why I think that behind every gossip of the SRP is some truths. Maybe they do not do something against it because they are afraid that everything comes out?
What might come out exactly? I'm not saying that everybody in the family is perfect or pure, they are human afterall and have done things they are not proud of or are embarassed by. But for the King and Queen, Felipe and the Infantas who have lived their entire life in the public eye, I hardly think that much about them is that private now. And when Letizia became engaged to Felipe, all the media tried to find skeletons in her closet.
Madrid2006 said:
Ever magazine in Germany wrote that Letizia has anorexia.
Yes, because the German magazines are
so reliable we should've believed them. Apparently their journalists are also doctors and experts on eating disorders then?
Madrid2006 said:
The Casa Real only wrote a letter to a Spanish newspaper.
The Spanish royal family has only obligations to Spain and the Spanish people. Why address the people of another country over lies or falsehoods about Letizia?
Madrid2006 said:
That is what I can not understand. I would not be proud if they write something bad about me which is not the truths. Maybe soembody can explain to me why the SRF acts like that. Thanks.
A few reasons off the top of my head:
1) The family is above all this. They know what is true and what isn't, and that's good enough for them. Why do they need to prove untrue what the press writes about them? Their characters are reflected in their work and their ethics, whether the press writes that this person is ill or that this person had an affair is irrelevant.
2) They don't read all the stuff that is written about them. Given their busy schedules, if they are reading newspapers or magazines, I doubt that the first thing the King or Queen, the Prince or Princess of Asturias picks up is the rag sheets or the gossip pages. Many celebrities say they don't anything about themselves because it angers them too much, perhaps this is the case here, too.