Letizia, professional through and through, silently suffers from metatarsalgia

More and more often, Queen Letizia of Spain puts back her stiletto heels in her royal dressing room. We saw her in particular, this summer, wearing espadrilles with wedge heels in ropes or even, during her last family outing in Mallorca, downright flat. Nothing to do with a simple choice of look. It is for a medical reason that the wife of King Felipe VI prefers, as soon as she can, comfortable shoes.

In the report it devotes to the wife of the sovereign, as a prelude to her 50th birthday – celebrated on September 15th – the Sunday magazine “El País Semanal” reveals that she suffers from chronic metatarsalgia, in particular at one of her feet, “the result of excessive use of high-heeled shoes, which she hates.” And that it causes pain and inflammation in the soles of the feet.

Professional all the way

Taking up this information that everyone was unaware of, “Vanitatis” specifies that it is surprising insofar as the mother of princesses Leonor and Sofia regularly uses very high-heeled shoes during public and private events. A trick to gain a few centimeters, she who seems so small next to her royal husband whose height is close to 2 meters. We already knew that Letizia of Spain assumed her role as queen consort with the utmost professionalism. We now learn that she also often does so while suffering in silence.

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