Spain

Sisterly love - Princess Leonor helps Infanta Sofia to walk after suffering accident in Mallorca

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10th August 2020
The heir to Spain’s throne, Princess Leonor, helped her sister, Infanta Sofia, to walk on their first appearance in Mallorca after the younger royal hurt her leg soon after arriving on the island. Sofia, who is thirteen, had a large bandage around her knee as she arrived in Petra, Mallorca with Leonor and their parents, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, for a planned engagement.
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A bruising week for Spain's royals ends with more questions than answers

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8th August 2020
Less than a week after he announced his decision to leave Spain, King Juan Carlos is all the country wants to talk about. The former monarch announced he was going into exile on August 3rd 2020, having already departed, quite possibly in the hope that by going he would take away some of the intense focus that has fallen on the country’s royal family in recent times because of allegations…
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Mystery continues over the whereabouts of King Juan Carlos

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5th August 2020
Several Spanish newspapers are reporting that King Juan Carlos I has arrived in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic. The former monarch left Spain on Sunday, shortly before an official announcement that he was to go into exile. Several media sources have reported that Juan Carlos left Spain via Portugal. The Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is now reporting that, during the weekend…
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Is there a secret message in Queen Letizia's recent style picks?

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4th August 2020
As King Felipe and Queen Letizia made their tour of Spain to show support for the country as it emerged from lockdown, one colour dominated. Letizia made a favourite of going green as she visited different parts of Spain. And there might well be a very good reason for that. In a summer where the very future of the Spanish monarchy has been in the spotlight, could Letizia be making use of a long…
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