Casa Real The debut of the Infanta Sofía, the rebellious and funny sister of Leonor
Casa Real Infanta Sofía: time to stop being the shadow of your sister, the heiress
This past Thursday we saw the Infanta Sofía (13) for the first time this year in an official ceremony. Together with his parents the Kings and his sister Leonor (15), he presided over the launching of the
Isaac Peral
submarine in Cartagena
, manufactured in the Navantia shipyard. Although the protagonist belonged to the Heiress, who as godmother of the act crashed a bottle of red wine, not champagne, in the helmet, Sofía did not go unnoticed: she wore a
striking red dress printed
with ethnic details of the Sfera brand, while Leonor wore a Adolfo Domínguez's white coat. He had borrowed it from Doña Letizia's closet, as well as the flat shoes without heels that Sofía was wearing.
We had not seen the blonde hair of the young daughter of the Kings since December, when she attended a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Princess of Girona Foundation, always inseparable from her sister and her parents. Unlike Leonor, who as Heiress is quite ahead of her in her institutional career, and in March captured the media attention by starring in her first solo act presiding over the 30th anniversary of the Instituto Cervantes.
But starting in the summer this family picture will change, and so will the existence of Sofía, who will be
14 years old
next week,
on April 29.
A year ago, on Book Day, on the eve of turning 13, he premiered in his first official duet act with Leonor reading a fragment of
Don Quixote
, followed by a video supporting young people in the pandemic.
He did it via telematics due to the confinement, so the echo was less.
Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, in Cartagena.
Until now, Sofía has played a
secondary role
, always with Leonor and a
symbolic step behind her
. However, at the end of August, when her sister leaves Spain to study the International Baccalaureate at the Atlantic College in Wales, it will be her turn to acquire her
own prominence as Infanta
. Something that the Royal House is currently studying, although
at the moment there is no plan designed for it.
"The thing to give greater institutional prominence will be seen, because in addition the Infanta has to go to school and
focus on their studies,
" sources close to Zarzuela assure LOC. It makes sense, because although it has been insisted that
Leonor will return for important appointments
, for example the
Princess of Asturias Awards
, the distance and the high level of demand of the Atlantic College will prevent her from lavishing herself frequently.
This happened when King Felipe
left for Canada to do COU
at the age of 16 and the infantas Elena and Cristina took over from him: they accompanied their parents to the Armed Forces Day parade, to the transfer of the remains of their great-grandmother Victoria Eugenia. al Escorial, to a gala dinner with the President of Mexico at the Royal Palace, and they attended the
wedding of Princess Astrid of Belgium.
Of course they were 18 and 20 years old and their public presence since they were children was much greater than that of Sofia.
IDENTICAL TRAINING
What does seem clear is that this
idyllic image of the future of Sofía,
whom she imagined to be
more free of obligations than her sister,
does not fit with reality.
At the moment,
their training has been identical to that of Leonor
and also very strict, first in the El Pardo nursery and later in the
Santa María de Los Rosales school,
even two summers, before the pandemic, they left together to the same camp in America.
Even the
private classes
they receive, for example in history, languages, and when they were little ballet, are the same.
Los Reyes, with their daughters in Cartagena, at the launch of the submarine 'Isaac Peral'.
It is to be expected that Sofía, who is studying fourth year of ESO, will also attend a Baccalaureate outside of Spain.
It has even been published that he will receive military training
, like Leonor, something that is questioned in Zarzuela. "That is absurd, if at the moment there is not even anything established for the Princess, which will be decided when she plays, even less for the Infanta," say sources cited above.
But given the conciseness of the Royal Family, with Don Juan Carlos out of institutional life and Doña Sofía with her schedule low, it is practically reduced to the Kings and their daughters, it is clear that
the Infanta Sofía is going to have to lend her shoulder and second to Leonor
. It is also the philosophy of his mother, Queen Letizia, who, unlike Don Felipe, whose role as heir was leagues away from his sisters Elena and Cristina, has always resisted marking differences between their daughters.
According to one close to the Queen
, "in private she educates them exactly the same,
since they have only been a year and a half and both she and Don Felipe have encouraged them to be inseparable. Regarding their institutional role, it
always bothered him that Sofía is considered second-best
and she may feel displaced. That is why she conveys to them that they
are a team
and that even though Leonor acts as captain as heir, she makes Sofía see that her task is also very important. "
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