This Wednesday and Thursday, the kings will embark on an official trip to Croatia, where they will hold a meeting with the country’s president, Zoran Milanovic, and his wife, first lady Sanja Music, which has sometimes been shrouded in controversy. In addition to his institutional duties, Sanja is a scientist and professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Zagreb and works hard to fight obesity among Croatians and establish healthy living habits in the population, which Queen Letizia also strongly believes in.
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While it is not yet known at which specific events Don Felipe and Doña Letizia will meet the presidential couple, surely the Queen will find many points in common with Sanja. They are both of a similar age (Doña Letizia is 50 years old and the wife of the political leader is 53) and although the monarch’s wife has dedicated herself professionally to the world of journalism, since she has been queen he is very involved in health, nutrition and scientific issues.
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Sanja Music received her Doctor of Medicine thanks to a survey of the demographic, behavioral and socioeconomic determinants of obesity in Croatian adults. He is a professor in the Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics and his areas of work are epidemiology and health promotion. Furthermore, he is responsible for health promotion at the Croatian Institute of Public Health, a reference center of the Ministry of Health, where directs the national program Vida Saludable. The first woman She met her husband at a New Year’s Eve party in 1991 and they were married at the age of three. Together they have two children.
In 2014, some statements that Sanja made on a radio station in her country generated some controversy when she stated that “when it is said that the wholemeal bread that we recommend is more expensive than white bread, it is initially more expensive, butBut you can simply cut whole wheat into thinner slices. Earlier this year, when the media found out, it sparked a new controversy of a different kind he lobbied the teachers and the principal of the classical gymnasium in Zagreb, which his son attends, to raise his final grade.
For her part, the queen, in addition to leading a healthy lifestyle that is seen in her physique, is FAO Honorary Ambassador the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and is dedicated to promoting scientific research in the field of rare diseases and the fight against cancer.