Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia, Current Events Part 14: October 2005 - Feb. 2006

[magnik]

First pressure to get in pregnant now pressure to give birth a baby What a life women has?!

 

[Sancia]

Why is it a shame when a 8-months-pregnant woman has to have some rest before the birth of the child, may she be princess Letizia of Spain or Mrs Smith.

 

[seto]

If a woman is told to rest then she should whether she is a princess or anyother woman. Her duties will be there after she has the baby.

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

An article from "La Vanguardia"
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051025/51196065470.html

 

[Elsa M.]

An article from "La Vanguardia"
http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20051025/51196065470.html

Last night, although the House of the King had announced the attendance of the Princess of Asturias to an official dinner, Doña Letizia remained in her residence of La Zarzuela, from where she has not moved, since she left the clinic at 3:20 a.m. of last Tuesday.

Two weeks before the pregnancy arrives at its end, Doctor Luis Ignacio Recasens has preferred his illustrious patient to spend these days in calm and, above all, near the medical centre, where everything is prepared for the childbirth. The Princess also shares that opinion and had remained at home, although she would have liked to go to the supper of last night.

The Princess doesn’t attend any official act since last October12th. According to sources of the House of the King, the rest of Doña Letizia does not mean that the childbirth is imminent, although the reason given to the absence of the Princess in the supper of last night was her "advanced state of gestation".

Last night, the Princeexcused the absence of the Princess, as he did in Oviedo, and transmitted her greetings to the members of the Enterprise Confederation of Madrid and to the Foundation Syndrome of Down, who had organized the dinner.

Today, Doña Letizia won’t accompany the Prince to Salamanca, whose university will invest the Chilean president, Ricardo Lagos, as doctor honoris causa.

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

Thans for the translation, Elsa M. The Prince excused for the absence of Letizia and said sth about her state at the beginning of his speech. It's very important, it's not just an answer for journalists any more. I think it means, that, as Lula said here, next time we will see the Princess already with a baby in arms. Of course we are sad, but it's certainly better for her not to go anywhere.

 

[Elsa M.]

http://www.abc.es/abc/pg051030/prensa/noticias/Nacional/Nacional/200510/30/NAC-NAC-018.asp

Next Tuesday, two years will have passed, since the engagement announcement of the Prince of Asturias; a date that Don Felipe and Doña Letizia will celebrate on the verge of the birth of their first-born. Its birth will agree, in addition, with another very significant celebration: the 30th anniversary of the Reign, since next November 22 the proclamation of Don Juan Carlos as King will be commemorated.

In any case, the truth is that, two years ago, nobody suspected that the life of the Prince of Asturias was going to experience so important changes; not even the Princess, who was still presenting the television newscasts at night, on Spanish Television, until the rumour of her relationship with Don Felipe was spread and therefore the House of His Majesty the King decided to make public the commitment.

In the meanwhile, there have passed two years of intense official activity, with hundreds of official acts in numerous towns of Spain, along with tens of trips abroad. From now on, in the future immediate it’s going to take place the birth of an infant, who will occupy the second place in the line of succession (behind his father, the Heir to the Throne) and it will assure the continuity of the Dynasty.

 

[Elsa M.]

Just when we are still a bit sleepy with the fuss of a royal birth, there are already articles in the Spanish press remembering how challenging the future is for the Princes of Asturias; very far from being a calm stroll through the roads of history...

Here’s an article showing that:
http://www.madridiario.es/mdo/opiniones/naranjo-081105.php


The Monarchy in Spain has been legitimized by its utilitarianism of which Don Juan Carlos has been the maximum exponent, at the most delicate moments of our recent history. It has not been the Monarchy, but this King, who has conquered the respect, the endorsement and the affection of the Spaniards, for his work before his origin.

It’s good to keep this in mind now that Leonor de Borbón appears like the future female Head of State, anticipating a constitutionalist reform that is needed in so many other aspects. But above all, it will be her parents, the Princes of Asturias, who will need to personally conquer a place that they already have for granted. The fact that Don Felipe appealed to the "continuity of the saga", after announcing the pregnancy of Doña Letizia, and that, since then, the royal couple has been mostly a protagonist of the press of the heart, indicates how far they still are from finding their utility in a modern Spain.

They have had a certainly precious child, but to the rest it appears as the future Head of State. And something so delicate and important cannot be dissolved, glossing only data for the social chronicle, as showy as perhaps in fact pointless.

The lack of an historical context like the one that the King has called upon himself, during the transition to democracy adds one more difficulty to the succession, but it simultaneously forces the Princes of Asturias to look for a reason to conquer the citizens. Perhaps nothing indicates that they are looking for it, but it would be good if they left the scope in which they are circumscribed and they began demonstrating their potential, beyond the protocol ceremonies and the pages of couché paper.

It’s not the case of trying to deny there’s a reason to continue (as like legitimately millions of Spaniards can think), but of expecting that they will find it: if the Monarchy has been useful till today, it can continue being it in the future. That one is the challenge of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, and to approach it without fear but the best way they can.

 

[fanletizia]

The Princes put according to PSOE and PP

Princes de Asturias are obtaining something that, with the times that run, seems incredible: to mainly put in agreement as much to the followers of the Socialist Party Working Spanish like of the Popular Party.

The voters, militants and political supporters of both formation agree in indicating that it will be good for Spain that they are the Kings of Spain, after stop being it Don Juan to Carlos and Doña Sofía. This is, at least, which reflects a recent survey, in the occasion of the 30 Anniversary of the restoration of the Monarchy in our country. In particular, 80.4% of the voters of the PSOE consider that Don Felipe and Doña Letizia will be good monarchs, whereas they are of the same opinion 80.1% of the voters of the PP, in an almost millimetric coincidence on their political adversaries.

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http://www.ociocritico.com/oc/actual/canales/diario/alternativo/051201alternativo2.php

 

[Elsa M.]

Thank you very much for this article, fanletizia!
It's good to know the other side of the story and verify that the future of the Spanish monarchy is actually stronger than what was pointed last week by the newspapers connected with republican ideologies...

 

[nayralorenzo]

I have seen other newspapers which made this test, and the results are very very different....

 

[lula]

I have seen other newspapers which made this test, and the results are very very different....

It is not true, they are not so different. If you read the majority of the surveys the results are similar, but it is necessary to read them well.

That the people create (especially the young people) that in the XXIst century, the Monarchy is something relatively anachronistic and that the Republic is something more identical to the times ... it does not have anything to see with the consideration of the work of the Royal Family. The Spanish Royal Family continues being one of the institutions most valued by the Spanish above, for example, of the Parliament. The valuation of the members is over that of the politicians. The majority of the people believes that the Prince will be a good King, and of that the Princess will do a good work. In the survey of El Mundo, in which one was referring that the young men (-30) were thinking that the Republic was preferable ... also the Royal Family was valued by 7 approximately. The politicians almost never come not to 5.

A thing is to think that the Republic is a political system more adapted for the epoch in which we live ... and other one that the consideration of the Royal Family is bad. They are two different things. For general the people think that they do well their work and are where they must be when one needs them.

 

[lula]

Thank you very much for this article, fanletizia!
It's good to know the other side of the story and verify that the future of the Spanish monarchy is actually stronger than what was pointed last week by the newspapers connected with republican ideologies...

Yes, this digital newspaper is of left sides, only it is necessary to read it habitually. Besides, its survey isn´t vey indicative, because I do not believe that many people and the majority reads it of those who read it they will have this ideology. There are surveys of other mass media, stocks in more credible studies. Also it is necessary to know what one reads.

 

[fanletizia]

The princes of Asturias will relaunch the official visits by Spain as soon as Letizia Ortiz can travel.

The princes of Asturias will reactivate the program of official visits to the different Spanish communities as soon as Letizia Ortiz can leave single infant Leonor. According to collected by the Confidential Digitalis in sources next to the Zarzuela, the program of official trips will be started again once the princess lets give the chest to her daughter, and therefore is in situation to absent themselves and to travel with certain normality.

The only official trip that has made the pair, like princes of Asturias, has been to the Balearic Community, when Letizia Ortiz already was pregnant.

http://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/Articulo.aspx?IdArticulo=5510

 

[Elsa M.]

Felipe and Letizia doing some shopping in La Moraleja (Madrid). Photos from Terra:

 

[carlota]

thanks for the pictures elsa!! it's great to see them again...
letizia's hair seems to have grown quite a bit in this time we didn't see her as much.
was that the same shopping centre where we saw the first photos of them together, that christmas after the engagement?

 

[LaChicaMadrilena]

Great pics! maybe we will see some from the inside.

Here you have the webside of this shop-centre:
http://www.lamoraleja.com/

 

[lula]

Great pics! maybe we will see some from the inside.

Here you have the webside of this shop-centre:
http://www.lamoraleja.com/

It is not the web of the mall. The Moraleja is a zone of Madrid, is a good zone where important people live great, and many sportsmen of Real Madrid, for example. It is a zone that is near Zarzuela

 

[bigheadshirmp]

finally some pics of her again...i miss her so much these days!

 

[agm]

From El Pais http://www.elpais.es/misc/portada20051208.pdf

 

[sadie]

Aww, i am melting here!, what a beautiful image. Leonor is a very cute baby!

Thank you so much for that picture agm it made my day.

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[Alexandria]

Thank you for the image agm!

Leonor looks so small in Felipe's arms! She didn't look nearly as tiny when she left the hospital or in the official pictures, but I guess Letizia was holding her and Letizia is a wee bit smaller than her husband!

What a cute baby!

 

[lis]

what a beautiful picture.... it made my day

 

[lula]

From el país:

http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpporesp/20051208elpepinac_17/Tes/infanta/Leonor/sale/compras

The infanta Leonor goes out of buys

They were little more of the four of yesterday afternoon when the princes of Asturias came to a mall placed in Alcobendas, a locality to the suburbs of Madrid, pushing a baby's pram in which there was going their first daughter, the infanta Leonor.
The couple was looking at shop windows and was entering some shops to choose gifts of Christmas. It is not the first time that the princes come to this mall to do their Christmas buys. But this year they have done it with their newborn child daughter, from whom they try to separate the least possible thing.
The infanta Leonor, who already has her first month of life - was born last October 31 in the clinic Ruber of Madrid-, she was sleeping placidly in her cuco, though when she woke up and protested, she was rapidly rescued by the arms of her father.
In these weeks, the infanta Leonor has taken weight and opens curious her eyes, clear; her features also have changed and she looks like more her father. Her hair, which seemed to be chestnut-colored when she was born, is now more fair and takes it more shortly.
This one is the first image of the small one since she left the clinic in the one that came to the world. And one of dona Letizia's scanty appearances, which has suspended all her official activities to devote herself to raise her daughter.
The princess of Asturias just has come since she gave to light to an act, the receipt that offered itself in the Royal Palace on the occasion of 30 anniversary of the arrival to don Juan Carlos' throne.
When the princes met surprised by the photographer they did not set objections to show to the small one, later to continue entering and going out of the shops. It yes, before the curious looks of the persons who were not giving credit to what they saw: the princes and the infanta Leonor walking along a mall.
There is no doubt that don Felipe, in these weeks, has taken skill as father.

 

[purple_platinum]

aawww... i miss seeing them.. great they finally decide to come out from their home and do their annual christmas shopping.
Letizia is looking fantastic and cheerful as always...

here are some more from hola :

 

[purple_platinum]

aaawww... i didn't realised they also went with little leonor..
that makes it even better.. the little infanta is so cute.. and losing that chubiness.
and Felipe holiding Leonor like that... aww... so cute.. she's going to be daddy's little darling (if she hasn't already)

 

[xicamaluca]

The pic with Felipe holding her little girl in his arms is so sweetttttttttt Great pics!! Thanks girls

 

[Elsa M.]

Photos from ImagineScandinavia:

 

[isabella_]

Oh! There we have Daddy Felipe, so sweet!


Letizia looks great and little Leonor... isn't she a cutie?

 

[Anna_R]

Thank you everyone for those pictures! It looks like Felipe has already lost the "fear" of holding Leonor.

They're such a cute little family