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This Saturday, April 29, the Infanta Sofia will blow out the candles of her 16th birthday, the last before flying from the nest, because at the end of August, as Leonor did, she will also go to study international baccalaureate at UWC Atlantic College in Wales, while her sister begins her military training at the Academy of Zaragoza.

Zarzuela confirmed in February that the Infanta passed the selection tests and according to Vanitatis, she did so with the pseudonym Dune, like the science fiction novel to which Sofia is a great fan. Like Leonor, in her Welsh boarding school she will share a room with three girls of different nationalities and social origin, she will make her bed and wash her clothes. You can also practice a wide range of sports, such as football (your favorite), surfing and sailing on the beach, and participate in humanitarian tasks and can also enter the big data unit of the boarding school, because you are good at computers. When she was very young she recorded an iPod with songs for King Felipe, among which was the Spanish anthem.

The Infanta Sofia with her sister Leonor and her father, this Easter.

It is not expected that Leonor can come this Saturday to Zarzuela to celebrate her 16th birthday, since her course ends on May 20 and is in full exams, but she will probably go to the confirmation of Sofia. It will take place on May 25 at the Assumption Church of Our Lady of Aravaca, where he made his first communion. There Leonor was also confirmed in 2021, and chose Don Felipe as godfather, but it is not known who Sofia will appoint, it is not ruled out that it is Leonor herself.

If someone did a job to Sofia, she reacted without cutting a hair: 'As you do it again, I tell my father'

Both sisters, who have been together for a year and a half, are flesh and nail. Doña Letizia said that Sofia, as a baby, chased Leonor through Zarzuela crawling and shouting "Leoló". However, in character they are very different, as the eldest grew more conditioned by the responsibility of being the heir, while Sofia stands out for her naturalness and sense of humor, as demonstrated in the video for the 50th birthday of King Philip, in which she joked toasting with her glass of water. Their mother educated them exactly the same, they have gone to the same school, the same boarding school in Wales and have even taken identical private lessons in history, languages and ballet.

Doña Letizia always took care that the little girl did not feel displaced by being the second dynastic, for example when the official photo of Leonor with Don Juan Carlos and Don Felipe was taken, she insisted that images be taken with Sofia, which remained for the family album. In the Santa María de los Rosales school, while the eldest was more shy and restrained, Sofia exhibited great self-confidence. According to a colleague, "if someone did a job for her, Sofia reacted without cutting a hair: 'As you do it again, I'll tell my father.'"

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The Infanta Sofia, a second first: friendly, funny and smart

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The Infanta Sofia, a second first: friendly, funny and smart

He loves theater and often participates in school functions, also science fiction films – especially the Star Wars saga – and cooking, he even attended a course at the Madrid restaurant Dstage. His favorite sport is football, and he usually plays as a midfielder in a Madrid team. Perhaps that is why he enjoyed his first official act outside Spain without his parents. It was in July 2022, when she attended with Leonor a European Championship match of the women's team in England.

Leonor at the Princess of Asturias AwardsGTRES

In institutional life, however, Leonor takes the lead, and she looks much more developed. Both starred in their first institutional act with 13 years, but while the heiress premiered reading in public an article of the Constitution at the Cervantes Institute, Sofia did it in April 2020 reading a chapter of Don Quixote with her sister and telematically, because we were in full confinement, so it went more unnoticed. When Leonor left for Wales, it was expected that Sofia would acquire more official prominence, in fact in Zarzuela they told LOC that "it will be seen, because the Infanta has to focus on her studies". Finally, only once did she accompany her parents to the National Day parade in 2021, the day she captured the spotlight with a white boho chic miniskirt and gladiator-style lace-up dancers. We have not seen her publicly alone again, always accompanying Leonor.

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