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...that Letizia Ortiz, 37, tended to dress in the anchorwoman's power blazers and pastel cardigans. But somewhere along the line, the former journalist has become a fashion icon, coming in number two on Vanity Fair's renowned Best Dressed List for 2009. That's what being princess of Spain - or at least getting used to the role - will do for a person...
...Letizia always had personality, even when she was just a journalist," says Jesus Maria Montes-Fernandez, a prominent fashion journalist in Spain. "But when she first married Felipe she was too fearful of her new role, too afraid to make a mistake. Her clothes then were very strait-laced." (See the legacy of Lady Diana, another bride who learned to become a princess...
...upholstered sofa. But even at the beginning, there was the occasional breakout number: in fact, she made her debut on the royal circuit by wearing a sexily form-fitting red Lorenzo Caprile to Frederic of Denmark's wedding just one week before her own. (Read about the strains with Spain's royal family...
Spaniards are reveling in their princess' new status as fashion icon. "She has done more for Spanish fashion in the past five years than decades of catwalks and advertisements," writes Maria Jose Iglesias, a journalist whose columns appear in regional papers throughout Spain. The local edition of Elle magazine agrees; in May it ran a special issue on Letizia, declaring her "the best ambassador of Spanish fashion...
...wasn't always thus. Letizia's status as a commoner, as well as her previous marriage to school teacher Alonso Guerrero, offended some of the old guard in Spain. And the hothouse world of the fashion and celebrity press has criticized her for changing her hairstyle too often, speculated on whether the pressures of the palace have driven her to anorexia, and weighed in cattily when news broke that the princess had submitted to rhinoplasty in order, in the palace's version, "to correct a breathing problem." (Thankfully, everyone seems to agree these days that the surgery has flatteringly softened...