When the Spanish royal family was rocked by a tense Easter moment

When Felipe, the then Prince of Asturias and heir to the throne, announced his engagement to Letizia Ortiz, a former broadcast journalist, in November 2003, it seemed Sofia had taken her future daughter-in-law under her wing. Reports from the time said Sofia had ‘adopted’ her son’s fiancée, while Letizia praised her future mother-in-law in a speech, saying: ‘From now on, and more and more, I am going to integrate fully in this new life with the responsibilities that come with it……