Prince & Princess of Asturias's Official Visit to Bulgaria: February 9-10, 2006

[lula]

http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20060210/51233195720.html

The Princes travel to Sofia

MARIÁNGEL ALCÁZAR - 10/02/2006 SOFIA

The princess Letizia passed yesterday the first night far from her daughter, the infanta Leonor, from the birth of the girl last October 31. One week after recapturing her official obligations, dona Letizia travelled yesterday to Sofia (Bulgaria), where the Princes of Asturias will preside today at the inauguration of the Institute Cervantes. Though the aim of the trip has a marked cultural accent, the presence of the Princes in Bulgaria, country that aspires to be admitted into the European Union on January 1, 2007, it has turned into a political event of the highest level since Spain is one of its principal allies in the community aspirations of the Bulgarian Government. Proof of it is the dinner that the president, Georgi Parnavov, offered last night don Felipe and dona Letizia. Today, the host will be the prime minister Sergei Stanishev, who will support a meeting with don Felipe. In Sofia, besides, the previous prime minister lives,
Simeón of Saxony, who possesses the king's title for it having been of right when only he was a child. During more than forty years, Simeón lived in Spain and his children are intimate friends of the Prince and the infantas.
Last night, in a Sofia totally covered by the snow and with 15 degrees under zero, dona Letizia dress a thick black coat of cloth to be protected from the low temperatures. Before going out of the hotel, she did several called Madrid in order that her daughter heard her voice for telephone.

 

[lula]

http://www.abc.es/abc/pg060210/prensa/noticias/Nacional/Nacional/200602/10/NAC-NAC-020.asp

Bulgaria gets the Princes been grateful for the support of Spain to its revenue in the EU

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Following the round of contacts, this morning the Prince will meet the prime minister, the Socialist Sergei Stanishev, but little before Don Felipe and Dona Letizia will move to the Palace Vravna, Simeón's residence and Margarita of Bulgaria, to support a breakfast deprived with them. After having practised for four years as prime minister, Simeón presides at the National Alliance Simeón II that, close to the Socialist party and the Movement of Laws and Freedoms of the Turkish minority, the tripartite Bulgarian integrates.
(...)
After the inauguration of the Institute Cervantes - placed in a central building - and before returning to Spain on the same evening, Don Felipe and Dona Letizia will realize an offering before the monument to the unknown soldier, in the square Alexander Nevski, who was raised in honor to the Russian troops that liberated Bulgaria after five centuries of Turkish authority.

 

[purple_platinum]

Letizia looks wonderful as always... she must've miss darling little Leonor.

i wonder why there're so little coverage of this Cervantes Visit compared to when the princes travel to prague or stockholm? perhaps because back in prague, Letizia was very pregnant, or in Stockholm, they met with fellow royals..

 

[nayralorenzo]

ooohhh...She was better in the dinner with Putin, but now...ooohhh..she looks really horrible again so black and so pale.
Letizia, please, again like the other night, not like that.

 

[lula]

Letizia looks wonderful as always... she must've miss darling little Leonor.

i wonder why there're so little coverage of this Cervantes Visit compared to when the princes travel to prague or stockholm? perhaps because back in prague, Letizia was very pregnant, or in Stockholm, they met with fellow royals..

I believe that more or less it is the same coverage. Spanish press is enough in Bulgaria, many journalists who cover the information of the Royal House are there (how both journalists of the previous articles); the yesterday dinner with the President of the Republic had a pool of official photos, because of it there are few photos. Later also it depends on the agencies of press that exist in every country, in this case Bulgaria. The most important acts are today, so we will have more photos.

It seems that Letizia is hung of the telephone .... it is normal, separating of a baby for the first time is difficult, probably she passes it worse that Leonor, which will be calm in house with her babysitter and the visits of the grandmothers. But really it was absurd to travel with Leonor in a long, brief trip and more with the cold that it does in Bulgaria.

 

[Olka]

Nice video. I think Letizia is missing her daughter a lot, she didn't look very happy and pleased during this visit. I hope we'll see more pictures from this visit - anyway I agree that there is not very much coverage about it....

 

[lula]

Nice video. I think Letizia is missing her daughter a lot, she didn't look very happy and pleased during this visit. I hope we'll see more pictures from this visit - anyway I agree that there is not very much coverage about it....

Letizia is frozen, yesterday I saw the images in television, they are of the arrival to the palace and she was going taking the gloves from . The temperatures in Bulgaria are very low, it has a climate very different from the Spanish and adapt is difficult especially if you have to go dressed this way.

 

[carlota]

Before going out of the hotel, she did several called Madrid in order that her daughter heard her voice for telephone.

what a cute attitude...

wonder who is taking care of leonor now by the way... does she have a nanny or she stayed with her grandparents? if she has a nanny i'm surprised we didn't hear anything about her...

letizia looked superb. black is a nice colour. it really makes her look professional.

 

[Olka]

I wonder if Letizia and Felipe took the little Infanta with them during the trip to Greece...maybe they did, as it wasn't an official visit and they could spend more time with her. It must be hard to leave the little one at home, even if she surely is in good hands.

 

[lula]

what a cute attitude...

wonder who is taking care of leonor now by the way... does she have a nanny or she stayed with her grandparents? if she has a nanny i'm surprised we didn't hear anything about her...

I imagine that she would remain that the babysitter and her grandmothers also will be nearby. The Queen lives to the side so the most probable thing is that time passes with her granddaughter, and same the mother of Letizia, who is accustomed to taking care of her another granddaughter.
On the topic of the babysitter, in Spain the babysitters neither are known of any of the children of the Infantas, it nor is known the people who is employed at the Zarzuela, only to those who occupy the important charges. I imagine that it is a question of discretion and also of safety.

 

[lula]

Yahoo

Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev poses with Spain's Crown Prince Felipe prior to their meeting in the capital Sofia February 10, 2006. Spain's Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Princess Letizia are in Bulgaria on a two-day official visit. REUTERS/Nikolay Doychinov

 

[lula]

Here you can see the inauguration at 11GTM

http://www.archivodigital.cervantes.es/directo/c2_sofia.htm

 

[purple_platinum]

Here you can see the inauguration at 11GTM

http://www.archivodigital.cervantes.es/directo/c2_sofia.htm

thanks for the link, lula..

Letizia is wearing dark colour again, i think seeing a bit from the press conference ...

 

[carlota]

a concidence that i opened this thread just at 11.04 gtm ...
i don't know why but i can't see anything though. just a "little square and in the top right a sony logo and down something that says "listin telefonico". does this happen to anyone else?

 

[lula]

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=58965

Spanish Royal Highnesses Open Cervantes Institute in Sofia

Top news: 10 February 2006, Friday.

Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain inaugurated in Sofia the biggest Cervantes Cultural Institute in Southeastern Europe.

The ceremony was also attended by President Georgi Parvanov and his wife.

Prince Felipe is scheduled to confer with Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and lay a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Warrior.

Spain's Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Princess Letizia arrived on a two-day visit to Bulgaria on Thursday. This is the couple's first trip abroad after the birth of their daughter Leonor, who is less than four months old.

The main objective of the Cervantes Institute operations in Sofia will be the dissemination and promotion of the Spanish language and culture. The building of the institute is located at Saborna Street 1, which previously housed the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Bulgarian capital.

The network of the institute includes 56 towns in 37 countries around the world, initiating nearly 4000 cultural events each year.

 

[fanletizia]

10-02-2006/14:20
Sofia - Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife Letizia, along with President Georgi Purvanov and his wife Zorka Purvanova unveiled the new Cervantes Institute in Sofia. The cultural centre, located in the heart of Sofia, is the largest structure of the Spanish Institute in Southeastern Europe. Prince Felipe and President Purvanov defined the opening as a peak of bilateral relations and clear evidence of the active and useful relations between the two peoples. "We are proud with the fact that Bulgaria has 18,000 Spanish language learning students," Prince Felipe said. He wished good luck to the Cervantes Institute in fluent Bulgarian.

http://www.bta.bg/site/en/indexe.shtml

 

[lula]

http://www.bta.bg/site/en/indexe.shtml
(A photo fanletizia)

Sofia, February 10, 2006

Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev met with Crown Prince Felipe of Spain who is on a visit to Bulgaria.

Press photo: BTA; photo: Tihomir Penov

 

[Little_star]

Thank you for the pictures, Letizia looks gorgeous as always. Wow! A little bit tired but it's ben hectic few days so who wouldn't be. She still looks incredibly graceful.
I'm loving the cream coloured coat!

 

[lula]

Reuter and AP Yahoo
REUTERS/Paraskeva Georgieva/Handout

 

[crisiñaki]

The SRF is everywhere this week

 

[lula]

Grom AFP-Getty

 

[lula]

From Reuters and AP via yahoo

 

[purple_platinum]

from cervantes' website

Princes de Asturias and the president of Bulgaria have inaugurated the Institute Cervantes de Sofía 10 of February of 2006

Their Heights Reales Princes de Asturias and the president of the Republic of Bulgaria, Georgi Parvanov, has inaugurated east noon the new Institute Cervantes de Sofía. The Mexican writer Sergio Pitol, prize Cervantes 2005, late presides over the this opening of the library of the center, that takes its name. Next a fan of cultural activities is opened that includes the intervention of six Spanish writers, a round table on "the other languages of Spain", concerts, exhibitions and projection of films.

 

[fanletizia]

From terra

 

[lula]

http://www.bta.bg/site/en/indexe.shtml

Sofia, February 10, 2006
Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife Letizia, along with President Georgi Purvanov and his wife Zorka Purvanova unveiled the new Cervantes Institute in Sofia. The cultural centre, located in the heart of Sofia, is the largest structure of the Spanish Institute in Southeastern Europe.

Pressphoto BTA photo: Bistra Boshnakova

 

[Elsa M.]

I'm loving the cream coloured coat!

It's a recycled piece. See the thread:
http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/198744-post64.html

 

[grevinnan]

I would hardly categorize wearing an outer garment more than once as "recycling".

 

[fanletizia]

Images from anp

1.- Crown Prince Felipe (L) and his wife Princess Letizia (R) during their visit to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Sofia, Bulgaria, Friday 10 February 2006.

2.- Cervantes Institute

 

[carlota]

i loved letizia's outfit today! the skirt is just so beautiful and breaks with the normal things letizia wears. it also makes her look so young without loosing elegance or formality.

isn't this photo of felipe with simeon absolutely lovely? king simeon seems such a nice, warm and honest person to be with...

 

[Elsa M.]

I would hardly categorize wearing an outer garment more than once as "recycling".

Then , just replace "recycled" by "not new", if you wish.