• Appointments The Kings Felipe and Letizia, with their daughters, Queen Sofía and Irene of Greece for dinner in Mallorca

The Copa del Rey Mapfre de Vela has ended.

Gone is a week of sailing in which Don Felipe has enjoyed seven days at sea, between competition and training.

The appointment of the King with the candle is set in his calendar, and everyone knows that except for surprises, next year

the image of the Monarch will be repeated

.

Every day he will arrive at the Náutico aboard a car driven by him, he will board and spend the day in the regatta field.

But something has changed this year, in that photograph that is repeated and that barely distinguishes the passage of time.

Felipe VI

had no visitors

at the Náutico.

Every year the King received, at least one day, his wife, Queen Letizia, and her daughters, Doña Leonor and Doña Sofía, at the Club.

The women greeted him, approached to see the crew of the

Aifos

and could see the King's sailboat up close.

Nothing more, because neither the Princess of Asturias nor the Infanta

sail

.

They are the only granddaughters of Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía who have not taken any course at the club and with Leonor

three generations

of owners of the House of Bourbon linked to the sea end.

That year, not even close.

Well, it has been impossible to photograph Doña Letizia and her daughters at the club, despite the fact that

she has been

looking forward to them.

Even on Wednesday the rumor spread that they would come to pick up Don Felipe.

Don Felipe in the last regattaBALLESTEROSEFE

It was not unreasonable, because the King, instead of going to Marivent after the day of regatta

, stayed in the

club's cafeteria with part of his team.

He stayed there for a little over an hour and went back to Son Vent alone.

But after Wednesday came Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

And

there was no royal visit

, in a new change of customs in the summer of the first times of the Family.

Don Felipe has been

the only

member of the Royal Family who has walked through the boat, and he has done so every day, from Monday 1 to Saturday 6, with the exception of Tuesday.

The King, in fact, arrived at the Club early this Friday and when he found out that the day's tests were being postponed, he went up to the top floor of the Náutico with Admiral

Rodríguez Toubes

and waited for the Embat to come in, the right wind to the proof.

At twelve o'clock in the morning they were finally able to lift the postponement and

start the regattas.

Don Felipe and his entire crew embarked on the

Aifos

and cast off the moorings to go to the regatta field.

However,

a rope got stuck

and three support boats had to help Aifos to solve the problem before leaving.

The King returned to port a few hours later and without being able to access the podium, as the absence of

Ricardo Maldonado

on the ship left the team at a disadvantage.

That arrival at the port was

the last opportunity

to see Doña Letizia and her daughters at the Club, but it did not happen either and the King left once again in his car for Marivent.

Tonight, Don Felipe

will deliver the trophies

of the 40th Copa del Rey Mapfre and will head to Colombia, where he will arrive on Sunday at lunchtime from Spain and

will remain for twelve hours

.

At that time, a bilateral meeting is scheduled with the president of Ecuador, a meeting with the outgoing president of Colombia and with Gustavo Petro, president-elect.

He will also receive a hundred people from the Spanish community before heading back to Marivent, where he will arrive on Monday morning.


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