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Sailing regatta, glass and King
MARIÁNGEL ALCAZAR - 01/08/2005 Palma
It is not about what worrying. Today they begin in the bay of Palma the Regatta of the Glass of the King of sailing and that is known there is sea, there is glass, there is sailing and, especially, there is King. Besides there are hundred inscribed ships, almost thousand crew members, to readier which, and an organization to test of tempests. The only thing that does not exist is an alone response to the great summer question: why does not Prince sail? Debit of being because the only reason does not exist to explain an absence that for being the first one has acquired apocalyptic dimensions. The first explanation gained itself the right to be the most credible: Don Felipe leaves this year the regatta because in his list of priorities the first place occupies his desire to be together with his wife pregnanacy of the first son of both who, since it is known, not only is a son but a future king. He understands himself and it should applaud the gesture, habida account of which if don Felipe marks trend, many women will be able to put it as example in similar situations. The habitual excuses of the work or the commitments that so much some husbands use to remove himself of enmedio will be able to be deformed now by more reason: " If the Prince has done it, you also can ", it will be able to be heard in many houses, and all that that we will go out winning.
This first explanation that so much public will make him gain to the Prince has, nevertheless, a problem, since it leaves dona Letizia as the direct person in charge of the change of activities of her husband. Thereabouts we go badly, so the decision of don Felipe comes from distant view. They all those who have followed his participation in the last glasses of the King knew that he was not to taste. The success of the competition was turning some days the facilities of the nautical club of Palm into a fair of which the Prince was fleeing in all that he could. The famous ones in search of promotion were mixing with the sportsmen in a coctail that was not well digerido. Every year, besides, the Prince, who Hamlet sailboat, had to decide if he was adding to the crew of the Aifos or to that of the CAM.El the first sailboat belongs to the Navy, and in occasions the managing of a ship was turning out to be a bit difficult in the one that was joining sports tactics with military strategy. To the CAM there came don Felipe of the hand of his friend and regatista Olympic Fernando León, who achieved the sponsorship of the Savings bank of the Mediterranean. The sponsored candles have benefited this sport, but also they have created commitments. Up to the actor Antonio Banderas it has had to happen for the island to promote the TAU, the sailboat of the one that is an outfitter together with his brother Javier, to whose crew Theresa Zabell has joined this year the Olympic medallista.
In all this studding of interests, the decision of the Prince has stopped being what actually is: a personal decision based on his understandable family situation. Neither the infanta Cristina, habitual crew member of Puig's Azure, will go out today to the sea and there is understood that she prefers being with her small daughter. At the moment, don Felipe and dona Letizia, that last Friday of dawn they returned to the island after their displacement to Peralada (Girona) will continue a few days in Palm, hoping undoubtedly that it subsides the temporary one, but to half a week they will leave the island. The answers to so many things that happen inside and out of Marivent, as Bob Dylan would say, it be that to ask them to the wind