- Leonor debuts this year at the Princess of Asturias and Girona Awards
An open secret that already has official confirmation. The Princess of Asturias Awards of 2019 will live a historic moment. Princess Leonor will not only debut at the ceremony that bears her name, but will also deliver her first official speech at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo .
This has been confirmed by the King's House by detailing the agenda of the Royal Family. In the program of the ceremony of delivery of the Princess of Asturias Awards it is broken that the King will pronounce a few words, but also his Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias. The next day, in the visit to the Exemplary People 2019 -to which he also attends for the first time-, which on this occasion has fallen on Asiegu , he will also pronounce a few words.
It will be, therefore, the first official speech of the heiress. Almost a year ago, on October 31, 2018, Princess Leonor starred in her first public intervention with the reading of the first article of the Constitution , in an act within the framework of the 40th anniversary of the Magna Carta. But it was not an intervention as such, it was a reading.
In Oviedo, next Friday the 18th will be a speech. First. He will do it with 13 years -he turns 14 on October 31-, the same age with which his father delivered in 1981, then as Prince of Asturias , his first speech, also within the framework of these awards. Leonor, therefore, follows in his father's footsteps.
In this act that already acquires a historical aspect, both the King and the Princess of Asturias will speak, unlike the ceremony of 1981, when after deliberating on the matter it was decided that Prince Felipe delivered the closing speech of the act and that the King Juan Carlos will not speak. An unprecedented fact, because he supposed that for the first time the Monarch presided over an act without being he who spoke, but he opted to give prominence to the heir.
Since 2018, the strategy to introduce Princess Leonor into institutional life has been drawn up from the Royal House. Until then, the Kings had prevailed the intimacy of their development. The imposition of the Golden Fleece, its presence to the right of the King in the parade of the National Party, his first public intervention, his first official trip to Asturias ... Small steps, in which, however, he did not finish hoarding All the prominence. They were measured, measured acts, without his figure exploding.
In this roadmap to the institutionality of the Princess of Leonor, from the House of the King it has been sought to link her figure to that of Asturias . Strengthen the link of the heiress and its title with this community. Something that was also done with his father. In any case, the month of October is a turning point in the formation and trajectory of the heiress, because it has become a shuttle for its public image. He will attend, once again, the military parade on the occasion of the National Party , will attend and make his first speech at the Princess of Asturias Awards, and will travel in early November with the Kings and his sister the Infanta Sofia to Barcelona to preside over the Awards Princess of Girona
Its takeoff coincides with a complex political moment in Spain. The exhumation of Franco, the political blockade with the repetition of general elections or the sentence of the process are circumstances that involve the framework of his first words, although it is expected that Princess Leonor does not enter into these issues and as happened with her father, His debut is more symbolic.
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