Queen Letizia insulted and pelted with mud during her visit to Valencia due to flooding

Shouts of “get out,” as well as mud-throwing, greeted his delegation the kings of Spain Felipe VI and Letiziathe Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Regional President of Valencia, Carlos Mazón, upon their arrival in Paiporta, the epicenter of the floods that devastated this province last Tuesday, October 29.

Queen Letizia ends up with mud on her face after complaints

Dozens of volunteers and outraged neighbors they greeted the delegation with insults and she was confronted, with cries of “get out,” while both the king and queen tried to mediate with the youths who approached them.

This in a city where there were at least 62 dead from floods and this caused 213 deaths in the province, as well as an unspecified number of missing in Spain’s biggest natural disaster so far this century.

With the face painted with mud, like his coatthe king proceeded along one of the main streets of this city in the ground zero of the storm and tried to calm several of the volunteers, very upset after five days of destruction due to the flood.

The queen also spoke to some of the outragedwhile the cries of “out, out” and some insults addressed to all the authorities continued.

Although at first security began opening umbrellas to keep mud from falling on the procession, they later closed them while the king continued to walk and stop to speak to volunteers and disturb neighbors.

The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchez, was removed from the site, according to the Spanish channel RTVE, when the official body began to walk through the mud-covered streets of Paiporta.

Police had to intervene with officers on horseback to keep the large crowd at bay. dozens were throwing mud, brandishing shovels and throwing sticks.

It was one unprecedented incident for a royal house that goes to great lengths to create an image of a monarch who loves the nation.

Public outrage over the mishandling of the crisis peaked this Sunday ahead of the monarchs’ visit.

Queen Letizia also spoke to women and he had some mud stains on his hands and arms.

“We have no water,” said a woman to the queen.

After about half an hour of tension, the monarchs got into official cars and left with a mounted police escort.