Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia, Current Events Part 18: March - April 2006

[Elsa M.]

Welcome to Part 29 of Current News for Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia.

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[Sue-]

What a great snap shot!
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=234803&d=1143555982
It's really a dream to be able to visit a chocolate fabric and to learn about the facts of the production etc.
I also like the way Letizia is chatting with people and I can only repeat it: She does her job very well!

 

[lula]

http://actualidad.terra.es/familia-real/articulo/principes_dama_elche_806493.htm

Princes come museum will lodge Dama de Elche in temporary exhibition

The Princes of Asturias crossed this evening the Archaeological Museum and of the History of Elche (MAHE) where from May 18 there will show itself for six months the greatest work of the Iberian Spanish art, the Dama of Elche.
During near 20 minutes, Don Felipe and Dona Letizia were informed about the labors of conditioning in Altamira's Palace, headquarters of the MAHE, and about the domed room of the XIIth century of the Tower of the Honoring where, proceeding from the Archaeological National Museum, the Dama will be lodged during her stay in the city that discovered it in 1897.
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From terra:

 

[lula]

http://www.levante-emv.com/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=185818&pIdSeccion=303&pNumEjemplar=3106

RECEIVED BETWEEN APPLAUSE and TOKENS OF AFFECTION

The Princes visit a company of footwear in the industrial park of Elche Princes de Asturias visited the this enterprise zone "Elche Industrial Park" that, with a surface of about two million square meters, concentrates around three hundred commercial companies, most of them related to the worn sector.
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[adelaide]

What a tender pic of Letizia. This Photo is an other sample of the children's feeling of Letizia. It's a very charming pic.


( from Casa Real )



Pic from Getty


The princes look very good today.

 

[lula]

From afp getty

 

[adelaide]

I'm just going to see the princes on TVE Internacional, Letizia seems apreciate very much chocolate. The atmosphere looks very good today, Felipe and letizia are very happy shaking hands and greeting friendly from the crowd.

 

[lula]

From terra:

 

[Kelly]

Great pictures. Thank you guys for posting them. Letizia looks beautiful!

 

[Mathilde1286]

Letizia looks too skinny (hence her bony chest)...nonetheless, alright. I like the color of her coat, it suits her quite well.

 

[lucys]

Pictures from Getty--1 of 3

 

[lucys]

Getty 2 0f 3

 

[lucys]

Getty 3 of 3

 

[Paula**]

Letizia is a amazing princess
By The Way I love her outfit

 

[carlota]

letizia looked incredible today! i just loved that outfit. the shoes are gorgeous!
isn't the photo of them eating chocolate at the same time just cute?

 

[lucys]

More from Getty Images:

 

[lucys]

And more from Getty

 

[lucys]

and a few more from Getty

 

[lucys]

And the last from Getty--I don;t think I repeated any...

 

[Tinika]

She really is more beautiful than most actresses and models.

 

[madonna23]

wow...she looks amazing...!!!

most of the other royalty, i like less and less the more i see them and read about them but with letizia it is the opposite - the more i see her, the more i like her and admire her.

 

[lis]

it is so funny how almost everybody just talk about letizia, and we all forget Felipe... jejeje... by the way he looks very relax today

 

[RhapsodyBrat]

What a great snap shot!
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=234803&d=1143555982
It's really a dream to be able to visit a chocolate fabric and to learn about the facts of the production etc.
I also like the way Letizia is chatting with people and I can only repeat it: She does her job very well!

they actually look like they can become the brand's image models! yum...

and i've noticed that Getty Images has a lot of great pics of the princess...maybe she's their favorite. ha ha

 

[crisiñaki]

they actually look like they can become the brand's image models! yum...

and i've noticed that Getty Images has a lot of great pics of the princess...maybe she's their favorite. ha ha

well, she's incredibly photogenic and has a camera charisma, probably a reminder of her anchor days

 

[lula]

http://www.laverdad.es/alicante/pg060329/prensa/noticias/Provincia_Alicante/200603/29/ALI-CUL-265.html

A sweet walk

Expectation before the factory of Chocolates Valor to see to Their Highnesses " The chocolates are buenísimos, but I cannot any more ", said the inheritor

A sweet and historical visit. Sweet because Don Felipeand Dona Letizia initiated their from Alicante day visiting the factory of Value, pioneering in the production of pure chocolate, without TheHighnesses could refuse to look at the product. And historical not only because the company celebrates now its125 anniversary but because it is the first time that a member of the Royal Family visits The Vila, since it was done in the year 1911 By Alfonso XIII, great-grandfather of the today Prince Felipe de Borbón.
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http://www.laverdad.es/alicante/pg060329/prensa/noticias/Provincia_Alicante/200603/29/ALI-CUL-262.html

Warm reception of the from Elche ones the Princes, who promise to return

Near 15.000 persons were grouped by them in the tour and Royal Highnesses reduced hundreds of hands between vítores in the Plaça de Baix and the Palace of Altamira
Don Felipe asked for the solutions to the crisis of the footwear after being informed about the economic situation

" Letizia, Letizia, Felipe, Felipe ", they were shouting the thousands of from Elche grouped yesterday in the evening before Altamira's Palace and later in the Plaça de Baix, as well as a few hundreds that did not have any more remedy than satisfy with the sidewalks of the Corredora. The warm reception offered for near 15.000 persons, according to the information facilitated by the City police, was monitored at all time and very closely by 210 civil servants of the National Body, 82 agents of the City police as well as a constabularies' treintena. Policemen were absent neither snipers competed in the roofs, nor either placed agents every ten meters in the places of more agglomeration.

 

[lula]

http://www.levante-emv.com/secciones/noticia.jsp?pIdNoticia=186016&pIdSeccion=17&pNumEjemplar=3107

The council gives a picture and a garment for the infanta Leonor

The Municipal Corporation gave to the Princes of Asturias a picture of Evaristo Alguacil, painter vilero born in 1954, which reproduces the old town of The Vila Joiosa I dress from a sailboat in the sea. On the other hand, the mayor of The Vila wanted to have the detail of giving a garment, in a particular way, to the Princess Letizia Ortiz for the infanta Leonor.
Likewise, the Princes received of hands of the mayor vilero the emblem of gold, enamel and silver of the city, with the shield of The Vila.
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[lula]

From face to face:

 

[lula]

http://www.hoy.es/pg060329/prensa/noticias/Sociedad/200603/29/HOY-SOC-213.html

The Princes of Asturias will visit Caceres for the first time on April 7

Will Close in the Cultural Complex San Francisco the first National Congress of Reading. Will Be their third official trip together to the region after those of Guadalupe and Merida

The city of Caceres will get for the first time the visit of the Princes of Asturias on Friday, the 7th of April. As this diary could have known, Don Felipe and Dona Letizia will be the managers of closing this day the first National Congress of Reading, which will take place in the Cultural Complex San Francisco from April 5 to April 7.
The Princess of Asturias shows the presidency of honor of this congress, the nacional first one that assembles representatives of all the sectors and agents linked with the reading, that is to say, writers, publishing editorials, mass media, public institutions, university, critics, publishers, educators and, certainly, readers.
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[lula]

Crown Prince Felipe and Crown Princess Letizia Visit a Spanish Chocolate Factory, a Shoe Manufacturer and Elcheïs City Hall During Their Visit to Alicante Province - March 28, 2006
http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====177765&nbc1=1

From Casa Real

 

[Paty]

http://www.larioja.com/pg060329/prensa/noticias/Sociedad/200603/29/RIO-SOC-107.html



Princes de Asturias visited yesterday the Chocolate factory Value in the alicantino municipality of Villajoyosa, where they could know first hand the process of elaboration of the chocolate, activity to which has been company is dedicated for 125 years. This visit inside frames the acts of celebration of the 125 anniversary of the foundation of the company/signature by Valeriano Lopez Lloret, great-grandfather of the present directors. The Princes proved different varieties from chocolates and shared a pure chocolate tablet and joked with the idea that after this tasting no longer they could eat.