We present a unified model describing electroweak properties of the π and ρ mesons. Using a general method of relativistic parametrization of matrix elements of local operators, adjusted for the nondiagonal in total angular momentum case, we calculate the ρ-meson lepton-decay constant fρ using the same parameters of free constituent quarks that have ensured exclusively good results for the π meson previously. The only free parameter, characterising quark interactions, which include additional spin-spin contribution and hence differ from the π-meson case, is fixed by matching the decay constant to its experimental value. The mean square charge radius is calculated, r 2 ρ = (0.56 ± 0.04) fm 2 . This result verifies, for the ρ-meson case, the conjecture of equality between electromagnetic and strong radii of hadrons tested previously for proton, π and K mesons.