The closing of the Princess of Asturias Awards focuses each year on a town in Asturias, which is awarded the Exemplary Town Prize. More than a hundred towns submit their candidacies each year, not only for the honor of receiving the visit of King Felipe and Queen Letizia and their daughters, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia, but also for €40,000 included in the prize, a quite substantial amount for towns that are certainly small.
The annual visit to the Exemplary Town usually sparks all kinds of anecdotes, thanks to the spontaneous interaction between the royal family and the residents. In Valdesoto, the town that this year deserved the Princess of Asturias Foundation prize, there were many humorous moments, some frankly surreal, in which the Kings and Princess Leonor reacted with great humor. For example, when receiving bizarre marriage proposals for the heir.
Although Leonor was the center of attention during the walk through Valdesoto, the member of the royal family who usually leaves the most anecdotes in her wake is Queen Letizia, also for her naturalness and closeness with the citizenry. In this town in the Siero council of Asturias, it was no exception, for as soon as she arrived she made a comment that alerted, above all, her fans. Because they once again verified how much the Queen loves social media.
Letizia and her secret account on Instagram
Following this anecdote, we assume that Queen Letizia keeps journalistic routines to carry out her duties of representing the Crown. Specifically, the habit of starting or finishing research on a topic on social media. We have it clear: the Queen looks on Instagram for destinations, issues or people with whom she must interact. Only in this way can what happened in Valdesoto be explained.
La reina Letizia y la infanta Sofía, en Valdesoto.
«You’re the one from Instagram», Queen Letizia told a young Valdesoto resident who was waiting for the royal family along the route. Thus she identified Cristina García, 21, one of the villagers featured in the account Valdesoto al descubierto. Cristina García parodies journalist Gloria Serra, presenter of the program ‘Equipo de investigación’, in humorous videos that take the royal visit as their starting point and that, precisely because of their comic nature, went viral.
In her videos, Cristina García speaks in Asturian and uses as a microphone any object that comes along, which adds even more comedy to her humorous videos about Valdesoto. She is not the only Valdesotinan appearing in these audiovisual pieces, viral on Instagram. María Blanco, Yessica González, Tania López and Raúl Díaz, from the El Chabolu group, also participate. However, she is the only one Letizia identified.
Thanks to this anecdote, we confirm that Queen Letizia has one (or several) secret Instagram accounts and that she uses it regularly. It is something that some celebrities who were able to speak with her have hinted at, such as Mexican actress Kate del Castillo or influencer Mario Marzo. “How could I not know you if I follow you on Instagram,” the Queen told her.
