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This Wednesday, April 29, the Infanta Sofía turns 13, an iconic age that in the royal family marks the launch of institutional life: Don Felipe was 13 when he delivered his first speech at the Prince of Asturias Awards, and also Leonor the day that she intervened for the first time in public reading a chapter of the Constitution on October 31, 2018. Sofia has followed this tradition and almost coinciding with her thirteenth birthday, this past Thursday, Book Day, she premiered reading an excerpt with Leonor from Don Quixote, event organized by the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Dressed in jeans and a simple light blue blouse - Leonor's was pink - Sofia intervened for little more than half a minute, demonstrating a reading level that was correct for her age, although less perfected than that of her sister.
Compared to that of the first-born, Sofia's was a low-profile release , since Zarzuela hardly gave her hype and also the coronavirus pandemic forced to do it telematically. So Sofía, who like her sister has been confined to the new Pavilion of Zarzuela since March 11, when classes were suspended in schools, videotaped her speech days before, like the rest of the participants. Later she doubled, also directing that afternoon with her sister a message on the occasion of the pandemic , with which she was seen more in her sauce, since she surely identified more than with the work of Cervantes. "We want to thank the people who are helping and caring for others. A hug with all my love," he concluded.
Other little princes
It was the first time that we have publicly seen both daughters of the Kings since February 3, when they attended the opening ceremony of the legislature in Congress with their parents. Unlike other European royals , much more active in the pandemic , -the sons of the Belgian monarchs made waffles for nursing homes and have provided remote assistance to older people alone; The Dutch published a video applauding the toilets from the palace, as did George, Charlotte and Louis, great-grandchildren of Elizabeth of England - Leonor and Sofia have not seen their hair so far, which has caused strangeness. It is known that their school year, Leonor Tercero and her sister Primero of ESO, have continued electronically, like the rest of the students at Santa María de los Rosales.
In the case of Sofia, before the Easter holidays, the school sent homework to students by email and online classes were limited to a couple of times a week through the Microsoft Teams platform. But after Easter, the online lessons have intensified and daily they teach fundamental subjects, among them Mathematics, Language, History or Biology, in addition to increasing the work of the students, who receive corrected and qualified days later.
A confinement that has meant to Sofia, in addition to running out of a birthday party , which she will have to celebrate without friends, depriving herself of the extracurricular activities that most entertain her, such as theater rehearsals under the baton of the professor of dramatic art Jaime Bohigas , and soccer, a sport he practices and of which he is a fan.
Although what is more difficult for her is to do without contact with her companions, since Sofia is very sociable, unlike Leonor, more shy. The truth is that both teenagers are different, even in their physique: Sofia, despite being a year and a half smaller than her sister, has half her head , has dark eyes and more marked features than Leonor, whose classic beauty with blue eyes responds more to the Disney princess look . But, in addition, perhaps for being the dynastic second and not having on his head the weight of the Crown, he has more naturalness and poise , in addition to a great sense of humor that makes everyone laugh with his occurrences.
It was verified in the video distributed for the King's 50th birthday when he made a toast with his glass of water, a detail that turned the "nice scene robber", as they called it, into a trending topic. Nor in school does he cut a hair, because although the two sisters are educated and good students, from Leonor's mouth there is usually no complaint if someone does a chore for her, but Sofia counterattacks warning: "As you do it again, they will I tell my parents. "
That ease is also seen in the appearances of both sisters, for example, in her first talk with journalists in the summer of 2018 in Marivent after returning from her camp in the United States: Leonor responded in awe with monosyllables , while Sofia gave a comprehensive account of her activities. , like playing gaga. A boldness that today makes him the main bastion of his sister, of which he is a nail and meat, but that in the future may become a problem that requires dosing the institutional presence of Sofia, which due to the reduced size of the royal family, is a great asset, so that it does not overwhelm the heiress.
At the moment, Leonor wins Sofia by a landslide in five impeccable institutional interventions, including her speeches at the Princess of Asturias and Girona Awards, where she exhibited perfect Catalan and notably overcame a difficult appearance in a climate of hostility.
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