Spain

Princess Leonor to receive special honour from Madrid to mark milestone birthday

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30th October 2023
Princess Leonor is on the verge of turning 18, a milestone birthday that marks her entrance into adulthood, and Spain is getting ready to celebrate its next monarch’s big day.Aside from the very important duty of swearing her allegiance to the Spanish Constitution in front of a joint session of the Spanish Parliament, the Princess of Asturias will also receive a very important honor…
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Birth of a princess: The arrival of Leonor

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28th October 2023
Princess Leonor was born in the early hours of 31 October 2005, the first child of then-Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia. Unusually for the time—though not out of place in today’s tech-savvy world—her birth was announced to the press via SMS messaging.She was the…
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Queen Sofia to miss historic event for the sake of King Juan Carlos

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27th October 2023
Queen Sofia will miss the moment her granddaughter, Princess Leonor, makes an historic promise because her husband, King Juan Carlos, won’t be there.On the day that Leonor, Princess of Asturias, turns 18, will swear allegiance to the Constitution of Spain in the country’s parliament.Juan Carlos will be in Madrid on the day, October 31st 2023, but won’t be at the solemn…
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia recreate romantic secret to mark a special anniversary

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22nd October 2023
The King and Queen of Spain recreated a photograph of their first public interaction 20 years later amidst the recent celebrations of the Princess of Asturias Awards.Then the Prince of Asturias, Felipe was photographed shaking the hand of television journalist Letizia Ortiz at the Reconquista Hotel in Oviedo following the awards (then known as The Prince of Asturias Awards).Traditionally…
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Princess Leonor attends Spain's National Day events in military uniform for first time

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13th October 2023
The Spanish Royal Family have celebrated the country’s National Day and, for the first time, the heir to the throne attended in military uniform.The National Day celebrations took place in the Plaza de Cánovas del Castillo, with the royals taking part in the ceremony alongside the Acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, and other government and state…
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