"Charles III teaches Felipe VI what the message of Christmas is"

“Charles III teaches Felipe VI what the message of Christmas is”

Posted On: December 26, 2022

Felipe VI and Carlos III in two different speech moments

Europe’s two longest-serving monarchies, Spain and England, have delivered their traditional message Christmas. Two speeches that have served non-verbal communication expert Patricia Centeno, who specializes in political aesthetics, made a comparative analysis on Twitter of the staging of the two kings.

Without going into the substance of his message, Felipe VI He warned in his speech of “the erosion of institutions”, social divisions and the decline of coexistence; Charles III chose paying tribute to Elizabeth II’s faith and to those who help othersPatrycia Centeno focuses on the packaging that surrounds the two addresses.

An analysis was made of a dozen tweets that, in any case, begins by making it clear that Felipe VI’s speech still has a lot to fix against the new king of Great Britain: “Charles III teaches Felipe VI about a king’s TV Christmas message in 2022. Just a hint. clear”, he wrote alongside the initial presentation of the British Royal House speech.

“Partly to blame for this lead power point The Spanish Crown and other poor productions are TVE’s fault”, he clarified in a subsequent message, where he explained that the production of messages of the British Royal House changes every year between the three main UK operators (ITV, BBC and Sky News) , which their understanding makes them compete “with each other to surpass themselves (in tradition)”.

The duration (8.33 minutes against 12.25 minutes of Felipe VI) and the beginning of Charles III’s speech were, for experts of non-verbal communication, another point in favor of the English king. “The first thing Carlos III did was find an audience and explain why he had chosen St. Paul’s Chapel. George as the message location. “Dear mother and father rest here.” Obviously it’s a television show,” he wrote.

From here, Centeno focused on staging the two messages and television resources used to transfer speech references to the screen. “Already in 1.58 Carlos III’s shots begin to be interspersed with social imagery. Firefighters, nurses, teachers, charities… Grateful for their contributions. It is a message of recognition and gratitude to people; I will not describe the life of Felipe VI to you,” he wrote.

″[Carlos III] He knows how to modulate the voice to interpret speech and the accompanying gestures (essentially a look) but don’t really stand out”, he explained in another tweet before expanding on his text, pointing out Felipe VI’s mistake: “That was an ITV production developing the resources to change shots /subject (zoom, general shot, detail, image recognition…). At Felipe VI’s, it is the king who has to turn his head and half of his body to face the camera (painfully)”, said Patrycia Centeno.

Felipe VI’s wardrobe, placement of photographs – courtesy of the king of Spain the first without a portrait of the heir present— or Christmas decorations were the last arrow this political aesthetic maven shot against the Casa Real discourse before concluding that “if I have to support the royal family, I want them to at least try to offer me a good show. . Zarzuela’s communications strategy is insulting”, he concludes after pointing out that the British royal family was the first to launch a Christmas message in 1957.