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The Spanish knew the award-winning journalist as the presenter of their main news program.
Her stellar media career ended with her wedding, after which Letizia began a completely different life, first as crown princess, then as queen.
But some of her compatriots still see her as an ambitious journalist.
From the outset, Letizia not only wanted to collect patronages, but also to delve deep into topics that were close to her heart: Health, nutrition, education and women's rights.
In doing so, she openly shows a clear stance.
This is new for a Spanish queen and is not always well received.
Working visits, receptions, trips, speeches - everything is precisely prepared at her own desk.
Three members of staff support the Queen.
ZDF was able to see this for itself in her office.
For all her professionalism, she looks more like a manager than a mother of the country, like her mother-in-law Queen Sofia was.
Some tabloids therefore accuse her of arrogance.
Filmmaker Julia Melchior accompanied and observed Letizia of Spain for a year at appointments at home and abroad.
The result is a close-up that shows a committed Queen.
Tirelessly at work, whether as FAO Special Envoy at World Food Day in Rome, on a humanitarian mission to a disaster area in Mozambique or in the fight against trafficking in women and prostitution.
Letizia puts the spotlight on these issues and also denounces abuses in her own country.
The government has found an ally in the Queen, for example for the "State Pact against Violence against Women".
Although the former top journalist fits in with the traditional Spanish royal family, she wants to be a queen of the 21st century, with professional standards and her own standing.
It is an open-ended job, unlike the first ladies of states with elected presidents.
Prominent interviewees such as María Neira, Director of the WHO, Charles Powell, Director of the think tank "Elcano", Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa report on how Queen Letizia of Spain understands and fulfills her job.
